I blogged during an epic merge that took a couple weeks to complete in which I reconciled code changes between a development system and a production system which had diverged significantly over a period of a few years. Today is the day I’m going to try to tackle the corresponding data merge mentioned in that… Continue reading An epic “data” merge
Author: Brian Toone
Samford hosts ICPC regional programming competition
Yesterday was a successful day here in the Samford University Math/CS department hosting the Southeastern Region of the ICPC contest. As site director, I oversaw the preparation and implementation of the contest using our facilities. It would not have been a success without the help of our Computer Science director, David Luginbuhl, and colleagues Greg… Continue reading Samford hosts ICPC regional programming competition
An epic “merge”
I have a development system which has diverged quite a bit from the corresponding production system. I have deleted, added, tweaked, fixed, edited, and looked at code on both systems separately without committing on either system. This has dragged on for several years now as I dreaded the day I would need to merge the… Continue reading An epic “merge”
Networking tidbits
Not sure how many people read these posts … actually, wordpress blogs do keep track of your visitor stats … here’s a quick peak. In light of that, this post is mainly for myself to remember a few networking related tasks and commands: HTTPS via bash/terminal Here are some useful commands I found for interacting… Continue reading Networking tidbits
Bringing the cloud back home
Cloud computing is the way of the future, right? Well, yes, but it’s also expensive. $55/month expensive. That adds up year-after-year, so I decided to purchase a server I could get keep running here at the house to bring all my websites back home (literally) … being careful to stay within the confines of our… Continue reading Bringing the cloud back home
End of an era
I started a combined Masters/PhD program at the amazing UC Davis Department of Computer Science in the Fall of 1999. As a grad student, I not only had access to the lab computers, but also access to a folder named “public_html” in my user account which was configured to serve up a website under the… Continue reading End of an era
django migration
I am one of the coaches on the Spain Park high school mountain bike team where both my son and daughter have been racing for many years now (since middle school). I run the team website, which I ported from standalone HTML to a django application to add the ability for team members to login,… Continue reading django migration
Migrating mybiketraffic.com
I saved the hardest for last. While technically not really that hard, I did want to keep the website up and running during as much of the migration as possible. As an extra complicating factor, to ease server space on my server, I stopped storing as much data in the mysql database and was storing… Continue reading Migrating mybiketraffic.com
DNSmasq-uerading
ATT Fiber has been absolutely fantastic. Zero downtime for the first month and incredibly fast. One of the challenges is ATT is making money off of DNS errors. I don’t have a problem with that at all, but they have locked down their modem/router combo so that you cannot change the DNS server to force… Continue reading DNSmasq-uerading
Trouble in paradise
My migration to a new server for all the web-based projects I’m hosting has been going great … until now. This morning, I woke up and was working on my main computer when I noticed that my server wasn’t kicking up every few minutes to refresh the OSM planet database. I turned on the screen… Continue reading Trouble in paradise