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Today, I am open sourcing my Ruby LocaleTranslator; the translator uses google’s translator API to translate a primary seed locale into various other languages. This eases the creation of multi-lingual sites. Not only can the LocaleTranslator translate your main seed locale into different languages but it can also recursively merge in differences, this comes in […]

SYEnc is a Scala decoder for the yEnc format that is based on Alex Russ’s Java yEnc Decoder. SYEnc was designed to be used as a library by applications needing to use yEnc to decode data. It should be thread-safe, so don’t worry about using it in a threaded context. Uploaded to github: http://github.com/victori/syenc Example: […]

I needed something like zfs-auto-snapshot written by Tim Foster but portable so it works on all systems that support ZFS. I reviewed a few scripts on github and was unhappy with what was out there so I decided to write my own. With zbackup.rb you can define what to snapshot and how many rotation days […]

I hate expired sessions, death to all expired sessions. Traditionally a Java servlet container has a fixed session time, a flood of traffic can potentially cause JVM OOM errors if the session time is set too high. I wanted a smart session container that can hold onto sessions for as long as possible and expire […]

Update: I feel like a jackass now, I thought I was running this against the stable haproxy build, but in reality this was against haproxy-1.4dev6. DOH! Well on the bright-side, I am helping out the author fix a potentially critical bug. Here is the truss and tcp dump if anyone cares. Well yet another Solaris […]

I just pushed up a new version of Satan to GitHub. For the uniformed uninformed Satan is my process reaper for run away unix processes. Satan was designed to work with Solaris’ SMF self-healing properties. Basically, Satan kills while SMF revives. The new version that was pushed up contains HTTP health checks, so Satan now […]

Ted Dziuba beautifully articulated why deadlines go to crap and seemingly straight forward tasks go out the window. You sir have done a public service for us all, thank you. What I hate is fording endless rivers of horseshit that are in the way of seemingly simple tasks. And I hate it even more when […]

Since Varnish did not work out on Solaris yet again. I have decided to bite the bullet and write a headers normalization patch for Squid 2.7. This patch should produce much better cache hit rates with Squid. Efficiency++ What the patch does: 1. Removes Cache-Control request headers, don’t let clients by-pass cache if it is […]

Are you running JRuby in production? Do you want distributed file storage for your “enterprise” application? Look no further, MogileFS is here. MogileFS-Client has compatibility issues with JRuby due to it’s use of the low level Socket class. JRuby 1.5-dev does not yet support all the Socket methods, so here is a monkey patch to […]

*Update* Patches got accepted into MogileFS Trunk 😉 Just go check out trunk, it has all my patches already included. http://code.sixapart.com/svn/mogilefs/trunk/ The only thing you need is my mogstored disk patch which is still pending. All the issues revolving around postgresql and solaris have been already included in trunk. I fixed a few issues with […]