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If you manage a bunch of Redhat Enterprise Linux servers (RHEL), it can be wasteful or difficult to update packages from the internet each time (or you don’t have enough subscriptions). So let’s create a package repository on a local server which will update every night and allow the other internal servers to access it. … Read more Create your own local Redhat Package Repo Cache
It has been quite an adventure the last couple years, I finally was able to visit the South Pole, both geographic and ceremonial. There are two of them and they actually have poles. Each year the winter staff creates a new marker for the geographic pole, since it moves around 30ft per year. I have … Read more South Pole 2018
It has been a rush the past couple months planning and preparing! I have been working at McMurdo station in Antartica for a month now as a Senior Network Engineer. This has been on my list of jobs to keep an eye out for, and the opportunity came about. I have to say it has … Read more Antartica – McMurdo Station
I recently have been on a serverless kick. What is that you ask? Well, it means running code in the cloud without managing any server resources or having a server operating system that is always running. Even better, you only pay for resources when your code is executing. Hosting solutions have been around for a … Read more Serverless Code with Amazons AWS and Claudia
Meteor 1.5 is out and we can finally do code splitting! If you are not familiar with code splitting, this allows us to separate our logic in a single page web app (SPA) and only send the client the relevant portions of code. This is useful in a couple immediate ways: You have a giant … Read more Meteor 1.5 and Code Splitting with React and React Router
The current way to connect Meteor into your React App is to use ES6 based components. Meteor has a function called “createContainer” that will send Meteor data into your React component as props instead of “this.data” access. This can make it a bit more complicated if you need to change your subscriptions based on React’s … Read more Moving To Containers in Meteor (ES6) For React
For the past few weeks I have been refactoring a client’s app to move from the React.CreateClass() format to the new and shiny ES6 class based format. We also re-factored Meteor from a mixin to the new createContainer component format. While we are at it, let’s demonstrate the functional based components for a child that … Read more Re-factoring from React CreateClass to Native ES6 Classes
This post will explain how I backup mine and my clients Linux servers to Amazon’s S3 file storage service via bash shell scripts. (I can do this for your business, let’s talk). It’s cheap, quick, and it takes care of off-site backups. I prefer to use a different provider than my hosting company in case … Read more Backup your servers automatically to Amazon AWS S3
MacOS has a few locations that start programs up on boot (called agents and daemons in macOS). If your Mac seems slower, this might be a cause, a bunch of background services running for programs you don’t use often enough. There are also programs that install themselves everywhere and just deleting the application will not … Read more MacOS locations for programs that start on boot – Daemons and Launchctl
I like to travel, so sometimes on the road programming can be a chore without my large monitor. There is a useful solution and that is to use an iPad as an external monitor. It actually works quite well! What’s nice too is you can use the tablet for most of your normal tasks, and … Read more Use an iPad for an external travel monitor – MacBook and PC