I wanted to share a few queries I created for Atlassian JIRA, that help me to keep track of my activities (e.g. for a weekly report, or to keep track of issues I submitted to other developers) – maybe they are useful for you, too: “My issues reported last week”: reporter = currentUser() AND createdDate […]
Pretty nifty, a site dedicated to tutorials, workflows and a showcase for high-quality photography using Free/Open Source Software: https://pixls.us/
While virtualization makes it pretty easy to spawn up new VMs quickly (e.g. for load balancing purposes), I always felt that providing concurrent file-based access to the same data to these VMs has been somewhat cumbersome, even though it’s still a requirement for many applications that need to share data between parts of the application, […]
Learn something new every day: to quickly create a screen shot of a web page in Mozilla Firefox, just press Shift + F2, which opens a small command line interface (including tab completion!). Now type “screenshot <filename>” and you’re done!
Back in the good old days of physical servers, you basically had two choices to increase the performance of your application: you either “scaled up”, by migrating to a beefier server with more RAM, CPUs/MHz, or you “scaled out”, by distributing your application load across multiple individual servers. Interestingly, I still observe customers applying this […]
It’s been a year and a month since I left the Oracle Linux team to join TeamDrive Systems, and I wanted to quickly recap and summarize some of the highlights and notable achievements in my new role.