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Boston Barcamp 6, Day Two

Posted on April 17, 2011 by Jeff Forman

Finally got this post out after having a bit of a busy week.   Location based networking, anurag wakhlu (coloci inc) http://goo.gl/mxAtd * location based apps: where are you now? or where will you be? * where are you now: … Continue reading →

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Barcamp Boston 6, Day One

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Jeff Forman

Having never been to a Barcamp before, I knew the overall structure of the conference, but was curious if I would actually like it. Truth be told, I found it full of content, without a lot of fluff, even for … Continue reading →

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Remind Me: Adding SNMP mibs for querying

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Jeff Forman

I was having issues trying to get Nagios to more easily query my APC UPS with the APC-provided MIB. It took me a while to figure out the right bits both on the file system and in my query to … Continue reading →

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Find, you are a dirty mistress

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Jeff Forman

In my latest task at work, I have to write a script to take the most recent file from a particular directory changed within the last 240 minutes and copy it to a particular dated directory, in YYYYMMDDHHMM style. After … Continue reading →

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Do or do not…the use of Try, with Python and sqlite

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Jeff Forman

I’ve been hacking around writing random Django apps and scripts lately and came across something I had been meaning to look into over the past couple weeks. What happens when you select a row of data from a database (mysql, … Continue reading →

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