Archive for July, 2012
How to install a Java runtime on Apple Mac OSX Mountain Lion
Jul 28th
One of the (perhaps) understandable but more irritating aspects of Apple Mac OSX upgrades which I just experienced is the fact that my upgrade from lion to mountain lion is that the Java runtime (JRE) is uninstalled…This meant that my usual code editor/IDE Netbeans was broken – not good! So i searched around and found More >
NodeJS NPM registry add/update notifications via Twitter
Jul 13th
I have been messing with NodeJS for a little while now and contrary to my preconceptions, I quite like it. NodeJS is not the right choice for every task (as with any development paradigm/language) but it has some great use cases for i/o bound tasks and is definitely easy to use! NodeJS uses a module More >
Quick tutorial: installing Openstack as all-in-one using Stackops
Jul 11th
I’ve recently been working on lots of trial-runs of software at work and got annoyed with having to rebuild servers all the time so i decided to join the rest of the world and go virtual. Our production VI at work runs VMWare (ESXi) but my trial stack was going to be a no-budget affair More >