Done with my taxes, save for mailing the local. Always a relief.
Continue reading post "#2297"Toby's Log page 48
The nice weather this past weekend got me out on two hikes.
Continue reading post "#2295"Went to the Indians game today with my dad.
Continue reading post "#2292"DreamCompute disruption incident
My server and site were down for about 16 hours from Tuesday evening (β18:08) to Wednesday morning (β10:36). This was due to a significant problem that occurred due to an upgrade to the Ceph system running Dreamcompute. Numerous people were affected, based on Twitter posts, and we still have little information about what happened.
Continue reading post "DreamCompute disruption incident"So, this site was down for like 16 hours due to a botched update of DreamCompute by Dreamhost. Back up and running now. Will report more when I get home tonight.
It’s snowing today after some fairly solid spring-like weather.
Continue reading post "#2282"A tale of bulk email system woes
This past week, my coworker and I had to deal with stressful problems with Cogneato‘s bulk email / newsletter system.
Continue reading post "A tale of bulk email system woes"My wordpress.com redirect seems to have turned itself off at some point before the year term I paid for.
Continue reading post "#2273"Heard a chorus of peepers while out on a hike today. Spring has sprung, or at least is springing back.
Continue reading post "#2269"Symfony console: Freeing up default short options
I like Symfony’s console component, and use it for much of my command line scripting these days. One thing I dislike is that it takes use of some short option characters for itself. The built in handling of verbosity with -v is nice and is fairly common in the CLI world, but some, like -h and -n, are more varied in use and would be desirable to have for various purposes in my own commands. I decided to remove these defaults in my own console app recently, and will describe how to do so.