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Building Opscode Chef 0.8.x from HEAD of the git repo

Update: I am having problems using the chef dev tools/client from the HEAD of the chef git repository with the Opscode Alpha Server service. I’m not sure if its me or if the latest versions of the chef client from HEAD is compatible with the Alpha Server Service. So the following is still useful for understanding how to build from…

Experience installing Hbase 0.20.0 Cluster on Ubuntu 9.04 and EC2

NOTE (Sep 7 2009): Updated info on need to use Amazon Private DNS Names and clarified the need for the masters, slaves and regionservers files. Also updated to use HBase 0.20.0 Release Candidate 3 Introduction As someone who has “skipped” Java and wants to learn as little as possible about it, and as one who has not had much experience…

Sierra Wireless USB881 3G Modem WAN on WRTSL54GS via OpenWrt Kamikaze

As noted in a previous post National Shame: Swaths of Non-Rural US without Broadband; Time for Re-Divestiture, there is no Cable Modem service or DSL in my neighborhood. Up until a few  months ago, I did have a pretty nice point to point Dual Raido Full Duplex 802.11n connection that could do about 12Mbps symetrical. The only reason I had…

Installing Apache Thrift on Ubuntu and Leopard

The instructions for installing the Apache Thrift on the Wiki missed a few key things in terms of installing on Ubuntu (8.04 in my case) and Macintosh OS X Leopard (10.5.6). Gitting the latest source For instance they show you how to get the latest via SVN or a snapshop via wget. But the wget actually gets it from a…

Cross Domain RESTful AJAX with jQuery and Rails 2.2.2

Flinn Mueller aka actsasflinn wrote an blog post Cross domain RESTful JSON-P with Rails back in July. There he showed how to monkeypatch Rails to allow json-p to do all the REST verbs even when going across domains. He also showed how to make the json-p calls with jquery. A very nice solution that we take advantage of in one…

Installing PoolParty on Mac OS X and Ubuntu

In my search for the ultimate open source tool for deploying our service onto the “Clouds” I am now trying the new PoolParty. (Though I’m finding that the github wiki for PoolParty is a better reference). Its got what seems to be a nice clean Ruby based Domain Specific Language (DSL) and set of unix shell commands for automating the…