Rtorrent config
I'm in the process of pulling apart my home server ready for the trip back to Oz and as part of the break down I'm coming across all sorts of little scripts I have put together over the past few years. This config is a handy .rtorrent.rc for watching a particular directory and auto starting torrents for any .torrent file you place in the directory.[Read More]Sitemaps XML template for Roller 4.x
One of the benefits of using a CMS or blogging tool is that it should
make generating a sitemap easy. Roller makes it very easy by using the
velocity templating engine and exposing a lot of data via model
objects.
Using the sitemap template coupled with Google's webmaster tools I can
get an idea of the index coverage my blog is getting. As of publishing
this article about 90% of the pages in my sitemaps.xml are in the
Goolge index.
My eleven tips for writing more useful systems documentation
A common complaint in most tech teams is that documentation is imcomplete, out of date and generaly the documentation that is there is useless. Quite often you hear people say "old documentation is worse than non documentation at all," "we need more documentation," "we need less documentation," or even "the system should document itself."
The following is a few techniques I have found useful in the past for making sense of documentation.
Using svn:keywords to automaticaly tag keywords in your version controlled files
A really handy feature of subversion is the ability to have certain
keywords substituted every time you check in a new version of your
file. Setting the keywords is fairly straight forward.
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How to Build an OpenQRM 4.3 Server
OpenQRM is an open source datacentre management tool that helps automate the build and management of hosts. It integrates with other automation tools such as puppet and has a relativly simple plugin architecture. This HowTo describes how to get a clean installation up and running on a bare bones CentOS system.
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