Ian Chilton ichilton

brevity isn't my strongest skill but I'm seriously going to try here

Questions first

Is berkshelf becoming a core chef dep?

JW: No, but it is going to be packaged with something called "ChefDK" which is going to be announced tomorow. It is an official tool that Chef (the organization) supports and distributes.
Is berkshelf becoming a core chef workflow dep?

My Ideal Task Management System

I’m not asking for much, really. I just want a task management system that provides me with the mechanisms I think I need in order to organise my life. Most of these are based on features I currently use in OmniFocus, and those I’ve wished were there at one time or another. In no particular order, they are:

An inbox which easily allows me to capture new tasks without thinking about organising them. I should be able to enter items into the inbox through a global shortcut on Mac OS X (ctrl-alt-space being my current one) and through a seamless interface on iOS (an obvious, always-available button in-app and importing Reminders from the native iOS app, so that I get Siri integration). And I should be able to capture emails into the inbox in such a way that it’s straightforward to get back to the original email (for replying).
It should be straightforward to work through the Inbox, moving individual tasks into the right place inside existing projects, or creating new pro

You must already have pip (brew install python), Vagrant (from the OS X installer, not the gem) and VirtualBox installed.

First, install Docker:

$ curl https://raw.github.com/noplay/docker-osx/master/docker > /usr/local/bin/docker
$ chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker
$ docker version

Auto-enable Local HTTP Caching in Test Kitchen

Note: total experiment and hack, looks nasty, could be awesome:

Setup

Drop the kitchen.local.yml into $HOME/.kitchen/config.yml
Install polipo (with Mac: brew install polipo, with Ubuntu: apt-get install polipo)
Drop polipo-start and polipo-console somewhere useful (perhaps $HOME/bin?)

I had some headaches yesterday while trying to upgrade to VMWare Fusion with Vagrant.

The steps that work are:

export your boxes from Virtualbox to OVA files
run 'vagrant destroy' on all your boxes
uninstall Virtualbox using the uninstaller script in the installer DMG
download VMWare Fusion
run 'vagrant plugin install vagrant-vmware-fusion' to install the provider plugin
run 'vagrant plugin license vagrant-vmware-fusion license.lic' to install the license you just bought

Packer and Serf Download "APIs"

Added some endpoints to make scripting Packer or Serf installs easier:

http://downloads.packer.io/latest/darwin/amd64

http://downloads.packer.io/v/0.3.10/darwin/amd64

etc. Just replace the version and platform with the one you want.

Life and death of Unicorns

The introduction of our Unicorn management tool, Polycorn.

Photo by Protohiro from Flickr

At Fotopedia, we use Unicorn to serve our main Rails application. Every day, we restart our application several times, spawning and killing hundred of Unicorns. Managing graceful restarts is a complex task, and requires careful monitoring and command. This article introduces our tool Polycorn, a Unicorn management program.

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	#!/bin/bash

	# Configs
	VSYSTEM=qemu # Either 'qemu' or 'kvm'
	INCLUDES='less,vim,sudo,openssh-server,acpid'
	MIRROR="http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian"
	ARCH=686

	clean_debian() {
	[ "$MNT_DIR" != "" ] && chroot $MNT_DIR umount /proc/ /sys/ /dev/ /boot/

	require 'nokogiri'
	require 'open-uri'
	news = Nokogiri::HTML(open("https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/"))
	news.xpath("//div[@class='post']/following-sibling::*").each do \|item\|
	match = item.text.match /Ruby (\S+) is released.Posted by.on ((?:\d{1,2} [a-zA-z]{3} \d{4}))/m
	if match
	puts "Ruby #{match[1]} was announced on #{match[2]}"
	end
	end

	# change this...unless you're in to jsbin issues :)
	repo = "remy/jsbin"

	require 'cgi'
	v = ARGV[0] \|\| "{query}"
	url = "";
	text = "";
	if v.to_s =~ /\A[-+]?\d*\.?\d+\z/ \|\| v == "new"
	url = "https://github.com/#{repo}/issues/#{v}"
	text = "Open #{v}"