Category Archives: Work

How to resize ext3 partition on LVM

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Mads Sülau Jørgensen

From time to time I have to resize the file systems on various systems which are primarily using ext3 on top of LVM. Resizing such an ext3 file system is not a complex task at all. For starters, make sure … Continue reading →

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Managing multiple AWS identities

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Mads Sülau Jørgensen

I’m running multiple different project on AWS which was so much of a pain to use, as I often find myself having to use the identity of project-a together with the official amazon ec2 tools. To help myself manage the … Continue reading →

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Detaching a running process on *nix (or how to make a process continue to run after logging out)

Posted on July 16, 2009 by Mads Sülau Jørgensen

Today, I had to copy 70 GiB of data from a ext3 filesystem to a XFS filesystem. This involved a lot of small files. After a couple of hours of waiting, I thought it’d be best to just leave it … Continue reading →

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Poormans cloudfront with EC2 and varnish

Posted on June 30, 2009 by Mads Sülau Jørgensen

Recently (10-20 minutes ago), amazon couldfront (a cdn) stopped sending dns replies in europe: % dig -t ns cloudfront.net ; DiG 9.4.3-P1 -t ns cloudfront.net ;; global options: printcmd ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached I was … Continue reading →

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Django – sharing a memcached instance

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Mads Sülau Jørgensen

Update: Some Curious User brought to my attention, that a ticket has been opened which, when implemented, will add a setting for a cache prefix. It will also allow other cache key manipulations. Until recently I’ve been using the file:// … Continue reading →

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Django compatible PyAMF test client

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Mads Sülau Jørgensen

While working on a project using PyAMF today, i was about to write a unittest of a service method, when I realized that it would be harder than necessary to make unittests of the service. The cause of this is, … Continue reading →

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Using mercurial with eclipse to edit actionscript files on os x

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Mads Sülau Jørgensen

We have recently switched to use mercurial as our DVCS. We’re hosting our many repositories on bitbucket. I love it. When it comes to actionscript files, flash has always had odd newlines. For some reason, it has always used \r … Continue reading →

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DNS management done right (and without the crappy attitude)

Posted on March 6, 2009 by Mads Sülau Jørgensen

I’ve been using GratisDNS A free danish dns provider to manage my dns for a long time. Using their management interface is no walk in the park. It also has a bat habit of sending the username and password as … Continue reading →

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Mercurial trac commit hook

Posted on October 13, 2008 by Mads Sülau Jørgensen

Having searched a lot around google, it does not seem that anyone has published their trac commit hooks for mercurial. Since I had to use just that, I’ve cooked up a little hook which is based on the hook from … Continue reading →

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Actionscript 3 – posting XML data with URLLoader

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Mads Sülau Jørgensen

So, you want to POST some XML data to a web service. Let’s for the fun of it say, that we would like to POST the following piece of XML to a PHP script: 1 <request command="run-command" />

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