Here is an example of what a little expertise, judiciously applied can do to speed up larger systems. In this case, take a 30 minute run against a MySQL database down to 5 minutes, or less.

I was out last night at the The Big Xmas Bash, near Silicon Roundabout. It was a fun night out meeting various people, tech, business and recruiters. Oh, the shame though - I was wearing the same T-shirt as someone else - and, yes, I have indeed replaced people with small shell scripts.

Now, to the main part of what this post is about - the rant.

It has been in process for a little while, starting when I moved the bulk of my DNS hosting from https://www.bytemark.co.uk/ (with whom I’ve had a small virtual machine since April 2004). One of the things I really like about Bytemark was the free DNS hosting they provided, particularly since they used TinyDNS - which is worthy of its own post. To add a new domain name, create a small file with the relevant lines, with one per DNS record - really easy if you have any kind of database or automation.

Welcome. I’ve taken some time over the holidays to do a little re-organisation of my online presence, and I’d like to tell you what I did, and how. First up, is this site. I’ve been considering what to put onto my Github pages for a while, and I think the most obvious thing are links to my recent work. As it is build on Octopress/Jekyll, it is also well supported by Github, and allows me to add static content pages into the site as well, so I’ve moved my online presentations here, from https://abulman.