Chris Sinjakli

Back in October, I gave a talk at SREcon EMEA called ‘The Computer Wants to Lose Your Data’ on the challenges of building crash-safe databases.

Alright, you know the drill.

It’s that time of the year again!

As tradition dictates, we got our annual release of Ruby on Christmas Day.

Tl;dr: If you’re running apt-get in a script and need to wait for other apt-get process to finish (i.e. you’re running into DPkg lock errors), set the DPkg::Lock::Timeout option (e.g. apt-get -o DPkg::Lock::Timeout=3 dist-upgrade).

The Ruby ecosystem has seen its fair share of HTTP clients.

For the next few minutes, I’d like you to forget that web servers can rewrite URLs.

Eclipse Run Helper is an Eclipse plug-in which adds keyboard-driven support for your Run/Debug history.

When I was writing my last article, I wasn’t expecting too much of a response.

It’s something that’s been bugging me for a long time.