There’s one surefire way to determine if someone is a great programmer, or if they are merely good: their attitude towards automated testing. In fact, their attitude towards testing will tell you a lot about their attitude towards programming, design, project planning, almost every other aspect of a technical project.… Read More
It’s obvious, but if you don’t update your blog often, no one will read it. Looking at my Google Analytics data, it’s pretty obvious that when I write something, people get notified about it, and they come and read it. If you want to increase your readership, write more. I’ve… Read More
Search Engine Optimisation, or SEO, is something I know very little about. This is a shame, because I’ve been maintaining this website, or previous incarnations of it, since about 1995 when I first got Internet access, yet almost no one has heard of it. Apparently. I was at university then,… Read More
TurboGears is my first choice for a new webapp platform, as both it and Django seem to have a reasonable following. TurboGears seems to suit my ethos for a webapp platform more than Django for a variety of not particularly conscious reasons. It just feels more like what I want.… Read More
In recent days, I’ve noticed that a couple of monitoring products out in the market are still doing something dumb. Cacti is one, and NetApp’s Operations Manager (nee DFM) is another. They both do the same dumb thing: They both poll everything in their database all at once. Cacti polls… Read More
A colleague recently had trouble finding the default server port number for EMC Control Center (ECC). Even his Google-fu failed. For the record, it is 5799. This is for version 6.0. I have no idea if other versions are different. So now you know. Read More
Dear Isilon Systems, While you are a relative newcomer to the world of storage vendors, you seem to be doing rather well so far. You have some smart people working for you, and you seem to have some interesting products that at least some people are buying. Please get someone… Read More
I finally got around to fixing the timezones for the Zope server. I’ve done this before for other servers, but hadn’t for the personal one, for some reason. Kudos to Andrew Milton for responding to my query to the OzZope mailing list last year explaining how: Zope DateTime sucks.It’s looking… Read More
It’s possible that you might come across this in your Plone site one day: you log in to edit something and notice a whole swag of items in the root folder_contents view. When you hover over them with your mouse, you can see by the link URL that the objects… Read More
