Install Posh Git on Windows 10 (x64)

Posh Git is a really helpful open-source project that includes a number of scripts offering Git and Powershell integration. When installed it allows tab auto completion for common Git operations along with showing the current branch and state of files.

WordPress .htaccess rules for Nginx

This guide shows you the equivalent .htaccess rewrite rules to get WordPress working properly with permalinks on the Nginx web server.

There is no direct equivalent for .htaccess in Nginx, so you cannot copy and past the .htaccess rules that…

SSH Timeout Problems on a Virgin Media Super Hub version 2

A commonly reported problem with the Virgin Media SuperHub is that an SSH connection will timeout. This is apparently due to the device having a very small amount of RAM leading to connection details being dropped.

How to automate Varnish cache purge

This guide shows you how to use the varnishadm command in your system crontab to automate Varnish cache purging.

Access your server as root or switch to the root user. If you installed Varnish from a repo you will have all the Varnish…

External FTP NAS with the ZyXEL NSA310 Media Storage and a Super Hub

I have a lot of films / music / software / games stored in various places and on various devices in my home. Keeping all this data organised is an absolute nightmare, and with a recent string of disk failures…

Slow Knife? Speed up with Knife rehash

The Chef DK includes a tool called Knife. This is primarily used for interaction with remote…

Installing VMware Tools in a Centos / Scientific Linux / Red Hat guest

Installing VMware tools in a rpm based guest can sometimes be tricky. Here is a quick and dirty guide to help you install VMware tools and get the most out of your Linux guest.

Cloud Channel TV

In conversation with Cloud-Channel.tv

I met up with Robin Block from Cloud Channel TV to talk about the cloud industry and the challenges that businesses face when adopting cloud technologies. Here are short clips of the full interview that Cloud Channel released through…

Bootstrapping Windows nodes behind a firewall with Knife

Using knife to bootstrap a node to be managed with Chef is a fundamental part of the Chef workflow, especially for dev and test purposes. When you bootstrap a node you are preparing the node to communicate with the Chef Server so it…

What opportunities are there in the cloud?

Installing .NET 4.6.1 on Windows Server 2012 R2 with Chef

Recently I was lucky enough to take part in a ‘hackathon’ with Chef, Microsoft and a partner company based in Norway. It was a great week working with some amazing people!

Enterprise Private Cloud — Empowering Digital Culture

Synergy: Windows 7 Server — RHEL Client

I recently attempted to pass and failed the RHCSA exam. In order to make sure that on my second attempt I would pass I borrowed a nice meaty workstation from work and set up SL 6 on it. This workstation’s CPU has the vtx flag allowing me to create SL / Centos…

Moving to cloud IaaS and PaaS — is it a silver bullet?

View speaker notes whilst presenting over a screen share on OSX

I deliver many presentations over various teleconferencing software from my Mac Book Pro. If you like to use speaker notes in presenter view in Powerpoint then this poses a problem. You have a single screen so when…

The Best Ruby Tutorials (for a n00b)

Ruby as a programming language has always interested me, partly because it is such a high level language! It’s also interesting that everything is an object in Ruby essentially scrapping that jump from scripting to OO programming, which I never made.

Jorge talks about being a Red Hat OpenStack System Administrator

Video explaining how vCluster PaaS billing works

PaaS will change the face of technology in business

Platform as a Service is the least defined and smallest (annual spend) layer in the “* as a Service stack” despite being a growing market, but this is changing. Venturebeat explain the cloud layers well if you need a refresher

Comments on TechRadar

I made some comments about selecting a hosting service for an e-commerce website. They were published on Tech Radar.

Coupled with this is the service level agreement (SLA) that supports the e-commerce servers in use, as Joe Gardiner, head of hosting at CatN…

Comments on Cloud Pro — Databases in the cloud

I made some comments about the challenges that arise when hosting databases, in particular production databases, in a cloud environment. It was interesting to consider where the pain points would be with PaaS and IaaS, and the benefits and draw…

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