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glTail: Realtime Logfile Visualization

10/11/2007 – 3:50 pm

This screenshot shows how glTail visualizes a comment spam attack in my configuration.

A few days ago, in my usual daily link browsing, I ran across a link to something called “glTail“, which was described as “realtime logfile visualization”. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Applications, Open Source, Ruby, Servers, WordPress | Also tagged Apache, Graphics, logs, monitoring, Servers, Spam, sysadmin, tools, visualization, WordPress | Comments (4)

Drinking the Ubuntu Kool-Aid

9/18/2006 – 4:41 pm

For quite a while, I had considered nuking Windows from my laptop and starting fresh. A few weeks ago, I finally took the plunge. I started with a full backup (two, actually — a file-by-file backup, and a partition image). I toyed with the idea of dual-booting, but finally decided that I’d try to go completely non-Windows, and see how well I could get by.

After hearing one of my co-workers rave about how impressed he was with Fedora Core, I was going to give that a try. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Browsers, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Tech | Also tagged Firefox, InternetExplorer, Laptops, Microsoft, Perl, PHP, Ubuntu, Unix, Windows | Comments (7)

Zend Core for IBM

6/8/2005 – 9:46 am

Cool, IBM and Zend have announced Zend Core for IBM. Basically, it’s an officially supported version of PHP with tight integration into IBM’s DB2 and Cloudscape database servers, and some web services stuff. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Linux, News, Software, Tech | Also tagged Apache, IBM, Microsoft, Perl, PHP, Programming, Web, WebSphere, Zend | Comments (2)

Dvorak stirs the pot

6/7/2005 – 2:36 pm

John Dvorak seems to thrive on controversy (much like the rest of journalism). His latest claim is that while Apple’s switch to Intel processors could threaten Microsoft, it also “could actually be most dangerous to the emerging Linux OS environment.”

Linux has other problems too. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Community, Hardware, Linux, Operating Systems, Tech | Also tagged Apple, Intel, Java, JavaScript, Macintosh, Microsoft, OSX, Perl, PHP, Windows | Comments (4)

Cake PHP Framework

4/21/2005 – 9:27 am

If you’re like me, you’ve been hearing “Ruby this” and “Rails that” everywhere you go. But I don’t have time right now to be playing with a new development framework, however nifty it may be. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Ruby, Servers, Software, Tech | Also tagged cakephp, Frameworks, Perl, PHP, Programming, Rails, Web | Comments (4)

Ajaxing the Rails

3/23/2005 – 1:39 pm

If you’re a web developer, then hopefully you’ve already heard of Ruby on Rails and Ajax. If not, you’re behind the times, and you have some reading to do. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Ruby, Software, Tech | Also tagged Ajax, Google, PHP, Programming, Rails, Web | Comments (5)

Thank You

12/23/2004 – 12:23 pm

As suggested by a thread in the WordPress Support forums, I want to share some Thank Yous…

This list is not comprehensive, I’m sure to leave out plenty of people who deserve to be included. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Personal, WordPress | Also tagged Photography, PHP, pingomatic, Web, WordPress | Comments (0)

Putting the “Simple” back in SOAP

10/21/2004 – 6:29 pm

I’ve never been too big on SOAP. It’s nice that there are lots of toolkit implementations out there, but for most of my projects, it just seems like overkill. [...]