For those who don’t know what the headline means: Bunny is an open source command line utility written in Python that provides a shell for talking to and testing AMQP brokers (tested on RabbitMQ). AMQP is a queuing protocol. It’s defined as a binary wire-level protocol as well as a command set. The spec also…
Category: Sysadmin
Python Date Manipulation
This post is the result of some head-scratching and note taking I did for a reporting project I undertook recently. It’s not a complete rundown of Python date manipulation, but hopefully the post (and hopefully the comments) will help you and maybe me too 🙂 The head-scratching is related to the fact that there are…
Brain Fried Over NoSQL
So, I’m working on a pet project. It’s in stealth mode. Just kidding — I don’t believe in stealth mode 😉 It’s a twitter analytics dashboard that actually does useful things with the mountains of data available from the various Twitter APIs. I’m writing it in Python using Tornado. Here’s the first mockup I ever…
Why Open Shop In California?
DISCLAIMER: I live on the East Coast, so these are perceptions and opinions that I don’t put forth as facts. I’m more asking a question to start a dialog than professing knowledge. So, I just heard a report claiming that there are more IT jobs than techs to fill them in Southern California. Anyone who…
Per-machine Bash History
I do work on a lot of machines no matter what environment I’m working in, and a lot of the time each machine has a specific purpose. One thing that really annoys me when I work in an environment with NFS-mounted home directories is that if I log into a machine I haven’t used in…
Tornado’s Big Feature is Not ‘Async’
I’ve been working with the Tornado web server pretty much since its release by the Facebook people several months ago. If you’ve never heard of it, it’s a sort of hybrid Python web framework and web server. On the framework side of the equation, Tornado has almost nothing. It’s completely bare bones when compared to…
PyTPMOTW: py-amqplib
What’s This Module For? To interact with a queue broker implementing version 0.8 of the Advanced Message Queueing Protocol (AMQP) standard. Copies of various versions of the specification can be found here. At time of writing, 0.10 is the latest version of the spec, but it seems that many popular implementations used in production environments…
Quick Loghetti Update
For the familiar and impatient: Loghetti has moved to github and has been updated. An official release hasn’t been made yet, but cloning the repository and installing argparse will result in perfectly usable code. More on the way. For the uninitiated, Loghetti is a command line log sifting/reporting tool written in Python to parse Apache…
If You Don’t Date Your Work, It Sucks.
I probably get more upset than is reasonable when I come across articles with no date on them. I scroll furiously for a few minutes, try to see if the date was put in some stupid place like the fine print written in almost-white-on-white at the bottom of the post surrounded by ads. Then I…
Head first into javascript (and jQuery)
So, I had to take a break from doing the Code Katas just as I was getting to the really cool one about Bloom Filters. The reason for the unexpected break from kata-ing was that I had a project thrown into my lap. I say “project” not because it was some huge thing that needed…