So many web frameworks these days:
I just finished going through a Django tutorial.
My first impression is that Django is perhaps a little trickier to get going than Ruby on Rails (though this probably becomes immaterial once you get accustomed to it). The thing that I really like about Django is that the basic paradigm for setting up models makes more sense to me – that is, in Django, you write Python code to represent your model and Django generates the SQL for your database. This is the opposite of the approach of Rails where you start with database tables and RoR does introspection and generates the code for the model. Personally, I am more comfortable with code than with SQL so this feels better to me. Also, SQL can vary between database implementations (i.e.: sqlite vs. MySQL vs. Postgres) so code seems like the more “stable” representation.
I released a new version of my Export2Excel plugin for the Yahoo! Music Jukebox.
Here are the changes:
regasm /codebase during install.Chris pointed out to me that SGI has a lot of interesting Linux-related open-source projects. Check it out at:
I just read about SMART (Smart Monitoring And Rebooting Tool) in a Linux magazine recently so I tinkered with it a bit.
It’s a system monitoring tool, kind of like Nagios, but much, much simpler (no Web UI, no flap detection, etc.). I think if I cared about something enough to monitor it, it’s probably worth it to set up Nagios, as Nagios is more sophisticated and has been thoroughly battle-tested. But for some reason if you wanted something much more lightweight and simpler than Nagios, than SMART could be of interest. If you hate Nagios because it’s written in Perl, I’m not what sure what you’ll think of SMART, since it’s written as a bunch of bash scripts – worse, if you ask me, but different strokes for different folks.
You can download SMART from here (Universitat Internacional de Catalunya).
Here’s some sample output (after a bit of hacking on the configuration files):
~/sw/smart$ ./smart SERVICE PID PROCS STATUS PROBLEM ------- ----- ----- ------ ------- APACHE2 6188 4 [OK] ATD 4926 1 [OK] BACKUPPC 4335 1 [OK] CRON 4939 1 [OK] CUPS 6279 1 [OK] DISK ? 0 [OK] No start command. KLOG 4079 1 [OK] NFS ? 8 [OK] NMB 4698 1 [OK] NTP 4861 1 [OK] PORTMAP ? 1 [OK] POSTFIX 4668 1 [OK] RPC.MOUNTD ? 1 [OK] No start command. RPC.STATD 4834 1 [OK] No start command. SMB 4700 2 [OK] SSH 4719 3 [OK] SYSLOG 7430 1 [OK]
Comcast came out on Tuesday and they seemed to be fairly puzzled by CableCARDs. After 3 or 4 calls to the office, the technician got one of our CableCARDs activated. The other one is still not working, even after a call to Comcast. I’m going to need to keep calling them until I get a rep who is actually familiar with CableCARDs.