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What I did today at Ohio LinuxFest – Salt

September 10, 2011 – 1:18 pm

Yes, I was at the Ohio LinuxFest this weekend!

Even though I did attend several presentations on Saturday. My day was mostly taken up with something else…

I built rpm packages for salt!

If you aren’t sure what salt is, check out their site and read the authors blog. Essentially, salt makes it easy to run a set of commands on multiple machines all at the same time, returning results quickly and asynchronously.

If you are interested in trying out salt on your system(s) and run Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, etc. feel free to try out the rpms. I’ve currently got a review request on bugzilla as well if anyone is interested in providing a review.

Cheers,

herlo

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Introducing Silver

May 5, 2011 – 9:11 pm

I thought a few of you might be interested in a project I’ve recently started, called Silver.

Today, I released version 0.2. Silver is a full-fledged development environment built on one machine built purely in Python. Silver (formerly PyCamps) is inspired by the Perl based DevCamps project created by EndPoint. The idea is simply to make it easy for developers to have their own little environments to build web applications.

Silver is built to enable work on several projects in small, reusable areas, called camps. Focused on web applications, Silver helps to make quick and easy-to-manage environments. Each camp uses version control, and gives the developer ultimate control. Silver enables an easy workflow for quality assurance, integration testing and deployment to production for each project in similar workflows.

Building a camp is simple, easy and very flexible for both corporate and community projects. I’d like to get some feedback on Silver and am looking forward to continuing work toward more power and flexibility.

More information can be found by reading the documentation at http://projects.purpleatom.com/silver/0.2/index.html. Silver also has a github repository if you’d like to try to set it up.

Tell me what you think! It is of course open source, with an MIT license, and I am hoping some of you will join up and help the project grow!

If you are interested, please join the Silver Project google group and let’s build the awesomest development environment of the future, with Python!

Cheers,

Herlo

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Fpaste-Server: The new hotness of pastebins

May 2, 2011 – 11:51 am

If you have been on the internet for a while, you probably have seen or been told to use a pastebin when submitting large amounts of text or code in IRC. If not, you may have used a pastebin to show your buddy the code you are working through and getting advice.

My point…

PASTEBINS ARE EVERYWHERE

One of the pastebins that has been in use for a very long time is http://fpaste.org and the focus of my post today. Essentially, the Fedora community tends to use fpaste.org over other pastebins as it has a bunch of nice features and it’s Fedora branded. About 2 months ago, I was asked by Jonathan Steffan (aka daMaestro) if I would be interested in packaging fpaste.org’s code and get it into Fedora infrastructure (FI). I accepted that challenge.

As Jonathan will tell you, the code was hacked together over a weekend at a coffee shop. Thus, it needed a bit of clean-up to make things work without including libs from other projects (a big no-no when packaging a Fedora rpm). After a few weeks of clean-up and back-and-forth with Jonathan, fpaste-server was born. That was the first big step to get fpaste-server into FI.

Fpaste-Server is comprised of many other packages. Since I wasn’t the maintainer on many of them, I worked with the amazingly awesome Dave Riches (dcr226) to get django-mptt, django-tracking, django-simple-captcha and django-dpaste into the EPEL repositories for both EL5 and EL6. Dave was not only helpful, but went above and beyond to complete these builds. Thank you, sir!

Over the past month, I’ve been really busy, prepping for my wedding and what not, but found some time recently to finish the package builds of fpaste-server. The packages are all approved, save for el5 which was submitted this morning. This was the second big step to get fpaste-server into FI.

This week, and after my honeymoon, I plan to finish up the work to get fpaste-server into FI. All that’s really left is to get django-tracking into EPEL6.

If you haven’t tried fpaste-server yet, you should. It’s a pretty cool and stable pastebin, it’s also very hackable. Changing out the background to fit your own logos and such is very simple. Please comment here if you find any bugs or issues, have questions or comments.

Cheers,

Herlo

 

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Fedora 11 – Get yours today!

June 9, 2009 – 9:22 am

Leonidas reigns!

Get it here.

You can read the official release announcement and other helpful links as well.

Cheers,

Herlo

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LazyWeb: What is that . doing there?

March 27, 2009 – 9:34 pm

So tonight I was sitting there tonight getting ready to setup cobbler for another installation source, and I noticed something very odd.

# ls -l /root
total 88
-rw-------. 1 root root  1176 2008-11-23 17:22 anaconda-ks.cfg
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root  4096 2008-12-14 18:37 bin

See the . ? Where you ask?  Look closer!

drwxr-xr-x. <– look, there it is!!  At first, I thought it was just one file, but then I noticed it other places, then I looked further, and it seems to be everywhere.

What is up with that? Where does this come from?  What is it for?  LazyWeb, can you help me?

Cheers,

Herlo

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Reminder: Fedora 10 Installfest/Release Party Tomorrow 6pm

December 5, 2008 – 8:23 am

Some of you may have read this from twitter, apparently the twitter updater plugin is broken and alerts people of published content no matter the date.

Just a quick reminder about the upcoming Fedora 10 Installfest/Release Party previously announced.  Fedora 10 has been released and it’s time to party.  Alongside the party will be food, fun and of course an installfest, so bring those ‘puters and boxen to the ‘fest!

Cheers,

Herlo

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Fedora 10 Release Party Details

November 26, 2008 – 11:01 am

Recently, I announced a Fedora 10 release party here on my blog,  It turns out, that not only will it be a release party, with (hopefully) physical and electronic media available, but it will also be an installfest!!

SO BRING YOUR MACHINES AND GET THEM INSTALLED!

Victor Villa of the Utah PHP User Group (UPHPU) and a Utah Open Source Core Team Leader has offered his work as the location for the event.  It’s large, easy to find and best of all, centrally located in Draper, Utah.

We’ll have food, fun and probably even some prizes.  We’re working out the minor details but come on down and enjoy an evening of reverie with your Fedora friends!

Time to Fire It Up!

Time to Fire It Up!

Clicking on the above poster will show the address and other details.

Here they are in print:

When: December 6, 2008, 6-8pm
Where: Bill Good Marketing, 12393 Gateway Park Place, Suite 600, Draper, Utah 84020  Map

See you all there.

Cheers,

Herlo

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Hear ye, hear ye, Fedora 10 has arrived

November 25, 2008 – 8:20 am

Get yours today.

Fedora 10 - Released

Fedora 10 - Released

Available at mirrors everywhere.  Also via bittorrent ? and jigdo ?.

Freedom, Friends, Features, First!  That’s Fedora!

Cheers,

Herlo

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Fedora 10 (Cambridge) coming soon – and a release party to boot!

November 21, 2008 – 2:14 pm

And I am already running Fedora 10.  It’s stable, powerful and most of all, built from free software!  Also, I’m in charge of creating the Media for North America this release.  We’ve already pre-purchased x86 live media and plan to produce similar amounts of x86_64 live CDs as well as both x86 and x86_64 install DVDs.  It’s exciting because they should be to my house by early to mid-December!  Distribution plans are commencing as well, so keep your ear to the ground.

Mark Your Calendars

I’m organizing a Fedora 10 release party, with a usb creation station, installfest and all that jazz.  It will probably be held on December 6.  There are a couple possible locations currently being discussed.  More details to come in the near future.

Cheers,

Herlo

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So it appears we may be onto something

November 5, 2008 – 11:54 pm

As of this afternoon, between myself and Steven Moix, it appears that almost all of the Fedora 10 Tour will be ready for the upcoming release.  Check it out for yourself, we’re only missing the release summary which should be written very soon.

Also, I should note that the countdown has already started:

Also, F10 Preview came out yesterday during the election so nobody probably noticed.  Get yours today!

Cheers,

Herlo

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