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Open source contributions: Just do it

Want to make a change in an open source project? Take the Nike approach and Just Do It. 馃憻

16 August 2023 路 6 min 路 1169 words 路 Major Hayden
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Migrating from vscode to vim

Some people say I just enjoy the sound of my mechanical keyboard too much. 馃き I see it as a simpler, more consistent workflow.

11 August 2022 路 5 min 路 911 words 路 Major Hayden
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OpenStack isn鈥檛 dead. It鈥檚 boring. That鈥檚 a good thing.

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24 February 2017 路 4 min 路 648 words 路 Major Hayden
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Why should students learn to write code?

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11 October 2016 路 5 min 路 984 words 路 Major Hayden
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Getting started with gertty

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11 May 2016 路 3 min 路 435 words 路 Major Hayden
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Automated Let鈥檚 Encrypt DNS challenges with Rackspace Cloud DNS

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31 March 2016 路 4 min 路 693 words 路 Major Hayden
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Fight cynicism with curiosity

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17 February 2016 路 4 min 路 775 words 路 Major Hayden

Segmentation faults with sphinx and pyenv

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9 February 2016 路 1 min 路 165 words 路 Major Hayden
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Nobody is using your software project. Now what?

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15 January 2016 路 5 min 路 887 words 路 Major Hayden

Automated testing for Ansible CIS playbook on RHEL/CentOS 6

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5 August 2015 路 1 min 路 127 words 路 Major Hayden

Improving LXC template security

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18 June 2015 路 2 min 路 312 words 路 Major Hayden

Lessons learned from a kernel bisection

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9 February 2015 路 3 min 路 494 words 路 Major Hayden

Adventures in live booting Linux distributions

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29 July 2014 路 5 min 路 1008 words 路 Major Hayden

DevOps and enterprise inertia

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17 April 2014 路 4 min 路 780 words 路 Major Hayden

Hierarchy of DevOps Needs from DevOps Weekly

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3 February 2014 路 1 min 路 145 words 路 Major Hayden

Automate CentOS 6 deployments with CIS Security Benchmarks already applied

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26 April 2013 路 1 min 路 146 words 路 Major Hayden

Relocating a python virtual environment

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25 November 2012 路 2 min 路 340 words 路 Major Hayden

Using git clean to remove subdirectories containing git repositories

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24 October 2012 路 1 min 路 97 words 路 Major Hayden

Keep tabs on OpenStack development with OpenStack Watch on Twitter

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8 June 2012 路 1 min 路 189 words 路 Major Hayden

mysql-json-bridge: a simple JSON API for MySQL

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29 March 2012 路 3 min 路 450 words 路 Major Hayden

Compare commits between two git branches

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15 March 2012 路 1 min 路 205 words 路 Major Hayden

New Fedora and EPEL package: httpry

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14 March 2012 路 2 min 路 229 words 路 Major Hayden

Legacy tty1 and block device support for Xen guests with pvops kernels

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14 May 2010 路 2 min 路 311 words 路 Major Hayden

Compress your web content for better performance

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19 September 2008 路 1 min 路 133 words 路 Major Hayden

Best PHP and MySQL development book

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29 April 2008 路 1 min 路 167 words 路 Major Hayden

Huge MySQLTuner overhaul

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12 August 2007 路 1 min 路 69 words 路 Major Hayden

Speeding up MySQL

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21 May 2007 路 3 min 路 588 words 路 Major Hayden

MySQL connections in sleep state

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21 May 2007 路 2 min 路 426 words 路 Major Hayden

Remove query strings from URL鈥檚 with mod_rewrite

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18 May 2007 路 1 min 路 32 words 路 Major Hayden

Install PayFlowPro for PHP on RHEL

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26 April 2007 路 1 min 路 129 words 路 Major Hayden

Forcing HTTPS (SSL) with mod_rewrite

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21 March 2007 路 1 min 路 59 words 路 Major Hayden

Forcing HTTPS with PHP

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21 March 2007 路 1 min 路 22 words 路 Major Hayden

Quick and fancy mail blacklist checking

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12 March 2007 路 1 min 路 68 words 路 Major Hayden