Installing and configuring a private Platform as a Service (PaaS) usually is not an easy task. Testing our (unreleased) Docker-based Pequod cloud solution becomes easier with our new single-node-cluster Vagrant box. I'll show you how to get a "complete" trial Pequod cluster up and running with Vagrant.
To experiment with Docker and IPv6 in "production", I decided to migrate this tiny blog to our (unreleased) Docker-based Pequod Cloud Solution. I will briefly describe how the setup looks like.
In order to connect my old desktop PC (now connected to TV screen), I had to buy either a long ugly CAT cable, buy two powerline adapters or buy a WLAN adapter. I decided to go for a wireless USB adapter.
After upgrading to Xubuntu 14.04 my beloved shortcut Super+1 (left "Windows" key and "1" key) to switch to the first workspace/desktop did not work anymore.
SCP is great for copying files between hosts, but what if you want to up/download a large file through a limited bandwidth connection without waiting for completion?
NFS mounts can be annoying as they tend to "hang" (for various reasons). Here I show how I replaced os.path.exists(..) with a better solution for potentially hanging paths.
As shown in my last GnuCash post, I wrote a small helper script to ease expense tracking with GnuCash mobile. This post should provide a step by step example of how the daily workflow would look like.
Python is great for writing command line scripts. Before extending a three line Bash script I usually rethink and implement it in Python. This post should summarize some conventions and best practices I recommend.
Since 2002 I'm using GnuCash to track my personal accounts, incomes and expenses. Just recently I discovered the GnuCash mobile Android app. After importing my GnuCash account tree into the mobile app I could easily add expense transactions. The only problem was: How do I get the recorded transactions back into my GnuCash desktop application? The mobile app supports exporting transactions to QIF or OFX files. These files can be imported by the desktop application. But I realized that this manual process is too cumbersome to use on a daily basis.
This site was down for quite some time. I did not want to deploy the old PHP-based site again and therefore looked for alternatives. I never used a static site generator before, but as this site has only a single author (me), I decided to go for it. Python is my favorite programming language, so the site generation tool should also be Python based. I started to look at the Python Wiki blog software list and quickly narrowed my choice down to Nikola: