Designing a keyboard from scratch - Part 4
Welcome to the 4th episode of this series of articles about designing a full keyboard from scratch. So far we’ve seen:
Posts by Year
2020
Designing a keyboard from scratch - Part 3
Welcome for the third episode of this series of posts about designing a full fledged keyboard from scratch. The first episode focused on the electronic schem...
2018
Handwired Keyboard Build Log - Part 2
In the handwired build log part 1 we saw a technique to build a nice keyboard matrix without using a PCB.
Handwired Keyboard Build Log - Part 1
Update 1: I’ve finished the second part of the serie
2014
Bootstrapping Windows servers with Puppet
All started a handful of months ago, when it appeared that we’d need to build some of our native software on Windows. Before that time, all our desktop softw...
2013
FOSDEM and Config Management Camp 2014
So I know this blog has been almost abandoned, but that’s not because I don’t have anything to say. At contrary, I’ve never dealt with so many different tool...
Devopsdays Paris For Real!
Paris is more and more becoming the DevOps place to be. We (apparently) successfully rebooted the Paris DevOps Meetups, with already two events so far, and t...
The 10 commandments of logging
Welcome on my blog for this new Year. After writing an answer to a thread regarding monitoring and log monitoring on the Paris devops mailing list, I thought...
2012
Ticket to Devopsdays Roma?
After seeing @KrisBuytaert tweet a couple of days ago about offering priority registration for the upcoming Devopsdays Roma next October to people blogging a...
Puppet Internals: the compiler
And I’m now proud to present the second installation of my series of post about Puppet Internals:
Benchmarking Puppet Stacks
I decided this week-end to try the more popular puppet master stacks and benchmark them with puppet-load (which is a tool I wrote to simulate concurrent clie...
2011
Puppet Internals: the parser
As more or less promised in my series of post about Puppet Extension Points, here is the first post about Puppet Internals.
Protobuf, Maven, M2E and Eclipse are on a boat
At Days of Wonder we develop several Java projects (for instance our online game servers). Those are built with Maven, and most if not all are using Google P...
redis-snmp: redis performance monitoring through SNMP
The same way I created mysql-snmp a small Net-SNMP subagent that allows exporting performance data from MySQL through SNMP, I’m proud to announce the first r...
The Indirector - Puppet Extension Points 3
This article is a follow-up of those previous two articles of this series on Puppet Internals:
Puppet Extension Points - part 2
After the first part in this series of article on Puppet extensions points, I’m proud to deliver a new episode focusing on Types and Providers. Note that th...
Puppet Extension Points - part 1
It’s been a long time since my last blog post, almost a year. Not that I stopped hacking on Puppet or other things (even though I’m not as productive as I ha...
2010
Puppet SSL explained
The puppet-users or #puppet freenode irc channel is full of questions or people struggling about the puppet SSL PKI. To my despair, there are also people wan...
Benchmarking puppetmaster stacks
It’s been a long time since my last puppet blog post about file content offloading. Two puppetcamps even passed (more on the last one in a next blog article)...
The definitive recipe for Wordpress Gengo to WPML conversion
The Days of Wonder News Center is running Wordpress which until a couple of days used Gengo for multilingual stuff. Back when we started using Wordpress for ...
More Puppet Offloading
Puppet really shines at configuration management, but there are some things it is not good at, for instance file sourcing of large files, or managing deep hi...
Puppet Memory Usage - not a fatality
As every reader of this blog certainly know, I’m a big fan of Puppet, using it in production on Days of Wonder servers, up to the point I used to contribute ...
mysql-snmp 1.0 - SNMP monitoring for MySQL
I’m really proud to announce the release of the version 1.0 of mysql-snmp. What is mysql-snmp? mysql-snmp is a mix between the excellent MySQL Cacti Templa...
2009
Nginx upload progress module v0.8!
Yes, I know… I released v0.7 less than a month ago. But this release was crippled by a crash that could happen at start or reload. Changes Bonus in this ne...
Nginx upload progress module v0.7!
I’m proud to announce the release of Nginx Upload Progress module v0.7 This version sees a crash fix and various new features implemented by Valery Kholodko...
MySQL InnoDB and table renaming don’t play well…
At Days of Wonder we are huge fans of MySQL (and since about a year of the various Open Query, Percona, Google or other community patches), up to the point w...
My Puppet Camp slides appearing on the slideshare homepage!
This morning I got the joy to see that my Puppet Camp 2009 slides had been selected by Slideshare to appear on their home page:
Puppet Camp 2009 debriefing time!
I attended Puppet Camp 2009 in San Francisco last week. It was a wonderful event and I could meet a lot of really smart developers and sysadmins from a lot o...
Inexpensive but Powerful Photo Geotagging
It’s a long time since I blogged about photography, but I’m coming back from 2 weeks vacation in Sicily armed with my Nikon D700, so it’s the perfect time to...
Storeconfigs (advanced) use cases
This week on #puppet, Nico asked for a storeconfigs live example. So I thought, a blog post would be perfect to post an example of a storeconfigs use case an...
Planet Puppet is born!
As usual, I’m faster to create things than to talk about them.
New SSL features for Nginx
As a Puppet Mongrel Nginx user, I’m really ashamed about the convoluted nginx configuration needed (two server blocks listening on different ports, you need ...
Nginx secure link module with TTL
It’s been a long time since my last post… which just means I was really busy both privately, on the Puppet side and at work (I’ll talk about the Puppet side ...
Puppet and JRuby a love story!
As announced in my last edit of my yesterday post Puppet and JRuby a love and hate story, I finally managed to run a webrick puppetmaster under JRuby with a ...
Puppet and JRuby, a love and hate story
Since I heard about JRuby about a year ago, I wanted to try to run my favorite ruby program on it. I’m working with Java almost all day long, so I know for s...
In love with zsh, part 1
Note: when I started writing this post, I didn’t know it would be this long. I decided then to split it in several posts, each one covering one or more inter...
Introducing mysql-snmp!
Thanks to Days of Wonder the company I work for, I’m proud to release in Free Software (GPL):
PLD to the rescue!
There is something I used to hate to do. And I think all admins also hate to do that.
OMG!! storeconfigs killed my database!
When I wrote my previous post titled all about storedconfigs, I was pretty confident I explained everything I could about storedconfigs… I was wrong of cours...
All about Puppet storeconfigs
Since a long time people (including me) complained that storeconfigs was a real resource hog. Unfortunately for us, this option is so cool and useful.
Help! Puppetd is eating my server!
This seems to be recurrent this last 3 or 4 days with a few #puppet, redmine or puppet-user requests, asking about why puppetd is consuming so much CPU an...
Failed upgrade, impossible to downgrade… Oh my…
In the Days of Wonder Paris Office (where is located our graphic studio, and incidentally where I work), we are using Bacula to perform the multi-terabyte ...
February Puppet Dev Call
Yesterday we had the February Puppet Dev Call with unfortunately poor audio, lots of Skype disconnections which for a non native English speaker like me re...
The curse of bad blocks (is no more)
If you like me are struggling with old disks (in my case SCSI 10k RPM Ultra Wide 2 HP disks) that exhibits bad blocks, here is a short survival howto.
No more slides, welcome to our Digital Overlords
If you had a look to my About Me page, you know that one of my hobby is photography. Until a couple of weeks ago, I was still doing analog photography with ...
Small World contest!
You certainly know that I work for the boardgame publisher Days of Wonder, and we announced a couple of days ago our new boardgame Small World:
Puppet Memory Leaks… Or not…
From time to time we get some complaints about so-called Puppet memory leaks either on #puppet, on the puppet-user list or in the Puppet redmine.
How do you like your Mocks served?
I like them refreshing, of course:
Net-Snmp doesn’t detect interface speed on Linux
Have you ever wondered why net-snmp doesn’t report a ccomments: true orrect interface speed on Linux?
OpenNMS JDBC Stored Procedure Poller with MySQL
Since a few months we are monitoring our infrastructure at Days of Wonder with OpenNMS. Until this afternoon we were running the beta/final candidate versio...
First post!
Hi,Welcome to my personal blog!