I was thinking about that feeling lately. It seems that I can not follow the wave out there, there are many things escaping from my comprehension due lack of time. Starting to talk about anything not related to my day-by-day is starting to feeling myself out of date.
I have to admit I'm in the worst shape ever. Probably due to the crazyness that have been installed in my life these last 2 years, probably due to the fact that being a father, or this 'becoming in a freelance' thing, or the weather.
1.- Had a really nice travel Most of times day by day, working, and taking care of twins is a hard task to manage, it eats almost all our time and talks are reduced to basics, organize homeworks, meals and not much more.
Due one of my Pyramid current projects, I was playing a bit with ZODB and blob image storing. After reading here and there, I had no idea how to properly delete a filesystem stored image, blob field related.
El pasado fin de semana del 8-9 de Noviembre (2014) se celebró en Zaragoza la segunda edición de la PyConES, la conferencia nacional de Python con mayor relevancia de España. El año pasado también asistimos en su primera edición celebrada en Madrid y este año no iba a ser menos así que allá me fui con Borja, en tren, desde Lugo.
When you wake up in the morning with a new like the bash shellshock bug you should get away your lazy part and update all your servers to new patched version.
Some months ago I had to deal with a Symfony2 project in a shared hosting (Spanish article) and now the big next deal is a similar task with Django. The project is almost done and I have the hosting credentials, once I'm in I noticed that there is no chance to configure anything (Apache, WSGI or whatever) so I was a bit lost.
When you are creating a new GPG key you have to decide how long the key will be valid before to renew. In my case when I got my own key, I was not really thinking on use it daily, it was years ago, just for test and have fun.
Last days ago I had lot of problems with MTA servers, hacked accounts, bad redirects policies and some other minor issues that kept me with the hands dirty in sysadmin keyboard. Needless to say how I love to put my sysadm hat and start to fix and/or optimize stuff, so from that bunch of problems was born this little script that makes my days easier than before.
This is a tipical friday story on sysadmin world, starting with a common Munin alert email and ending fighting against a cracked email account due a weak password. The alert referred to a weird problem with inodes outside range in / partition: