I work quite a bit with daemons on remote hosts that are normally not directly listening to the public internet. I use SSH tunnels a lot and had [previously used a simplistic script][1] to deal with it.

Open and uncapturable is the mission of InternetNZ and the promise to push for access to the internet for everyone. This is what we as a incorporated society stand for and what we try to push. We, all the members of InternetNZ.

The slides from my short talk at the Wellington Web Meetup

For my new startup I play with a lean prototyping stack that will enable me to prototype and evaluate ideas really fast and test on the market.

The slides from my talk about mojolicious at perlmongers Wellington yesterday.

One of the joys of working as a contractor is quoting for projects that possibly become a real project some when

every once in a while i stumble upon an article from someone pointing out the dangers we geeks live in in terms of unhealthy work hours and our very own unhealthy mind set.

slides and video from my ignite wellington talk are finally online

i try to test buzz with posting a new blog post

the slides from my talk about test driven monitoring are up

The slides from my talk at LCA2010 in Wellington about parallel programming and why it matters for internet infrastructures

It's been a bit of a busy time lately as we launched three new platforms in the last time and that brought with it a lot of challenges. Fortunately it also pushed me to complete our migration to our new backend which is now entirely message driven and based only on the finest stuff one finds in the moment.

Here are the slides from my talk at erounge Wellington yesterday

The slides from my RabbitMQ talk yesterday at perl mongers Wellington.

Did you ever want to override the way Catalyst builds its path? a bit like Rails or Django? Did you miss the handy config file and did it also take you half a day to finally figure out how to do it and realise that it is straight forward?

Ever needed that one script that simply opens up a ssh tunnel and closes it after usage again? In the background? Here it is.

To enable read only repositories via HTTP is pretty straight forward. I'll cover the basic setup based on nginx and our previously discussed gitosis setup here.

A short summary of the talk I gave yesterday at erlounge Wellington about RabbitMQ and messaging in general.

In the last part of startup automation I talked you through the basics of configuring gitosis and the puppet config directory to make deployment of the config files really easy. Obviously we need some test clients and a working server now to play. I use parallels for local development and normally fire up one VM per project. I created an empty debian VM and just did a `apt-get install puppet`. This installs all dependencies and leaves you with a working client.

Startup automation became a big buzz currently but I think it has always been key to those who were successful. The speed to market is important and this is not only true for small companies.

i guess many of us geeks went through the one or other phase in their life when they felt themselves trapped in the system with no way out. "the system" meaning any kind of mental state that prevented a clear view on the situation.