Specifying Specific SSH Keys for Git Remotes
When using Git via SSH with services such as GitHub and Gitorious, it can be useful to use specific / different ssh keys than your default. This is accomplished with an entry such as the following in...
View ArticleTwo Git Branching Models
In current projects, we tend to float between two branching models depending on the requirements of the customer / project and the planned deployment process. git-flow This was previously known as A...
View ArticleTry Git In Your Browser
I know, I know. The fourth Git post in a row… But, in case you missed it or in case you’d like to try Git without installing any software, then checkout http://try.github.com/ Today [GitHub are]...
View ArticleNagios Plugin for Checking Backups via rsnapshot
We’ve just added a check_rsnapshot.php script to our nagios-plugins bundle on Github. This script will verify rsnapshot backups via Nagios using a number of checks / tests: minfiles – checks the number...
View ArticleGit Web Applications (aka GitHub Alternatives)
I’ve been through the mill with a few of these and it’s a growing list of options. I should start by saying that I love GitHub and use it regularly for a large number of projects (including some of my...
View ArticleSynchronising Microsoft Exchange to Another IMAP Server
This post is much less of a detailed how-to but rather some useful links. We were tasked with the job of sync’ing about 1,000 MS Exchange mailboxes to a Dovecot server. This needed to be done via an...
View ArticleNOCtools and OSS_SNMP Get Support for Multiple Spanning Tree (MST) Protocol
NOCtools (a mixed bag collection of tools and utilities for NOC engineers) and OSS_SNMP (a PHP SNMP Library for People Who HATE SNMP, MIBs and OIDs) have just gotten support for Multiple Spanning Tree....
View ArticleNagios / Icinga Alerts via Pushover
I came across Pushover recently which makes it easy to send real-time notifications to your Android and iOS devices. And easy it is. It also allows you to set up applications with logos so that you can...
View ArticleDoctrine2 Service Provider for Laravel 4
I’ve just released a Laravel 4 package which contains a service provider to the Doctine2 entity manager and the Doctrine2 cache. These are made available via facades named D2EM and D2Cache...
View ArticleNagios Plugin to Check Extreme Networks Devices
Over at INEX we’ve embarked on a forklift upgrade of the primary peering LAN using Extreme Networks Summit x670’s and x460’s. As usual, we need to monitor these 24/7 and we have just written a new...
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