Programming

What if programming languages were designed for AI, not humans

General Programming Go OpenSource Personal Thoughts

What if programming languages were designed for AI, not humans? A few weeks ago I saw a post on social media -- someone asking whether it was time to create a programming language designed for consumption by code assistants. Not for humans to write, but for AI to generate and humans to verify. I couldn't stop thinking …

Better Late Than Never: Announcing Ramble, A Nomad Job & Pack Registry

General Programming Nomad Go OpenSource Personal Thoughts

Back in 2021, I had an idea. What if there was a better way to share and discover Nomad job files and Nomad Packs? What if we could make it as easy to find a production-ready Nomad configuration as it is to find a Docker image? We needed a helm like repository for Nomad That idea became Ramble -- Github Repo. Today, …

Meteor User Seed

Meteor Programming

I have been trying to build a site with Meteor and have slowly started getting stuff working. One of the ways to populate your development data has been with database seeding. I wanted to link a user account with a document in one of my collections so I worked this out from the documentation. You add users to the users …

Quest NDS Migrator LogFile Parser

Personal Thoughts OpenSource Powershell Programming SystemAdmin

I am currently helping a customer migrate from Novell to Microsoft and they are using the Quest migrator product to move their data to new DFS servers. They currently have a large amount of data stored on a number of volumes. The sheer number of volumes and data have required that they deploy a large number of the copy …

Bongo Admin UI Images

General Bongo rPath Developing Programming

I have uploaded some images of the new UI so you can see what it looks like without installing it. Please let me know what you think. Images

Building the new Bongo Admin UI

General Bongo rPath Developing Programming

A while ago Alex (so_solid_moo to the IRC channel) created a php binding for the Bongo API. He also created the start of the new UI that we are working towards. We started with the admin ui for now as we have created a user interface with the roundcube project that Alex also integrated with. I stared porting the …

How to copy custom attributes when migrating vmware vcenter to new database

General Personal Thoughts Linux Programming VMware

I recently had to move hosts and guests to a new vcenter server as the old server had become corrupt and full of issues. The current vcenter has a few custom attributes and notes that would not be transferred as part of the move. So I wanted to use powercli to read the attributes out and put them back. To export the …

Learning Ruby and rBongo with WeBongo

General Bongo rPath Programming rBongo Ruby WeBongo

This post should have been written quite a while ago as I wanted to start documenting my efforts to learn to program using Ruby. As most of you know I have been trying for a while to teach myself to program. I started my efforts with a course in c# at a company in London, the course was just great and the instructor …

Mono Goings On

General Bongo rPath Programming

I too have been watching the Mono debate with some interest as I am in the process of creating a Mono API for the Bongo Store. This interests me as I do not want to spend time working on something that will stop any distribution from running such a great app like Bongo. What worries me more is the character …

Update on the Bongo API

General Bongo Programming

Quite some time ago I blogged about my efforts to create a mono API for the bongo store protocol, I have unfortunately been quite busy with my personal life and also at work so this has been neglected. I have again been working on this and at the moment I am stuck trying to get the COLLECTIONS command to work. Alex …