Installing Graphite on Ubuntu 14.04

Graphite is great stats collection and graphing system, used in a lot of companies to But, it’s always been something of a PITA to set up. With the release of Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, graphite is now available via apt, so the setup is a lot more straightforward. But there are still a couple of small hoops …

Vim + clipboard

For years, I’ve been copying text from console Vim running inside tmux running inside iTerm2 by doing this; Ctrl-a + Z - Zoom the current tmux pane to be full screen (if it wasn’t already)Hold down Alt and drag the mouse over the text I want to copy to the clipboardCtrl-a + Z - Unzoom …

Mysql slaver gem

I use MySQL a lot, and I usually set up servers in pairs/groups for scaling and/or resilience. So, when I’m setting up a new server, I almost always have to start replication by doing the same little dance; SSH onto the master and record its master statusDump and load the data from the master onto …

Rails 4.1.0 Walking Skeleton

Like a lot of coders, I enjoy working on new projects, especially when I can play with the latest toys. Lots of new tools are optimised for development, which means it’s really easy to get something up and running on your laptop. Install, hack, hack, hack, and then you’ve got something you’re ready to show …

Decluttering

Nobody who knows me well would disagree that I’m borderline OCD, and really detest clutter. So, it’s unfortunate that I also find it quite hard to throw things away. That unusual charger, whose original purpose I can’t remember might, just might, turn out to the the exact thing I need, one day. Hey, it has …