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Oops, I Snapped the Bed! | Pither.com / Simon

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Pither.com / Simon. Development, systems administration, parenting and business. Oops, I Snapped the Bed! Posted by Simon Pither. Thu 5th Feb 2015. It is with some slight discomfort that I must admit to having sat down on my bed (well my wife's actually, but what's hers is mine, yes? Despite the gentle sitting and the rapid jumping, the damage had been done. Here it is from a few angles:. After those few days is was becoming clear that this solution wouldn't last for ever. Not only were we getting cl...

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Testing a new boot configuration | Pither.com / Simon

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Pither.com / Simon. Development, systems administration, parenting and business. Testing a new boot configuration. Posted by Simon Pither. Wed 21st Jan 2015. The process uses qemu, its disk snapshot feature and VNC console along with SSH port forwarding. First ensure you have a VNC client on your local machine (I'll assume a Ubuntu Linux desktop here and assume you already have SSH installed):. Desktop$ apt-get install xtightvncviewer # other VNC clients also work. Server$ apt-get install qemu. Option no...

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Grails vs Django, revisited | Pither.com / Simon

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Pither.com / Simon. Development, systems administration, parenting and business. Grails vs Django, revisited. Posted by Simon Pither. Fri 30th Jan 2015. Some while ago now, I considered the question of Grails vs Django. As my web development framework of choice. Since then I've created. Django web applications. I've also continued to work on several Grails based projects, new. Previous: close but a win for Django. Now: this is definitely a win for Django. Last time I talked about Django admin pages and t...

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First Grails 3 pre-release | Pither.com / Simon

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Pither.com / Simon. Development, systems administration, parenting and business. First Grails 3 pre-release. Posted by Simon Pither. Fri 30th Jan 2015. The first Grails 3 pre-release. Went live a few days ago. Soon after I updated my super simple grails download and launch script. With the new download locations and other small tweaks for Grails 3 support. Grab the updated script from github then try out Grails 3 with:. Grails 3.0.0.M1 create-app my-test-app. Sudo mount /tmp -o remount,exec.

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Redhill Freelancers and Small Business meetup survey | Pither.com / Simon

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Pither.com / Simon. Development, systems administration, parenting and business. Redhill Freelancers and Small Business meetup survey. Posted by Simon Pither. Tue 10th Mar 2015. I'm working on creating a local group for freelancers, small businesses and other home workers based in and around Redhill and Reigate. So far I've created a website. Account and a Meetup. Group and between these (allowing for some overlap) I think approximately 65 people have joined and expressed an interest. Beyond the obvious ...

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Grails multi-version launch script | Pither.com / Simon

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Pither.com / Simon. Development, systems administration, parenting and business. Grails multi-version launch script. Posted by Simon Pither. Sun 13th Mar 2011. Fri 30th Jan 2015. The latest version of the script. Below is on github. I work with grails. The solution - have a grails wrapper script that detects the version of grails defined in the current project and runs the right one. D "$BASE/grails-$VER" ]; then echo Detected version $VER could not be found exit 1 fi else echo No valid version on comman...

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Writing 10,000 words in a day | Pither.com / Simon

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Pither.com / Simon. Development, systems administration, parenting and business. Writing 10,000 words in a day. Posted by Simon Pither. Thu 5th Feb 2015. Wed 11th Feb 2015. The title may sound like a foregone conclusion but this is actually very much a challenge, an experiment for me really. I have made today a content writing day. The idea for having a dedicated content writing day on this particular day came from Dan Norris. I'm currently part way through the latest autobiography. Is a slow process unf...

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Building a Micropreneur and Freelancers group in Redhill | Pither.com / Simon

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Pither.com / Simon. Development, systems administration, parenting and business. Building a Micropreneur and Freelancers group in Redhill. Posted by Simon Pither. Wed 11th Feb 2015. I live in Redhill, Surrey. I'm working on building a freelance and micropreneur group in Redhill. There is an excellent freelancers group. That meets weekly in Brighton (which I visit occasionally). There are also many, many entrepreneur and freelancer groups that exist in London. There are also co-working groups. Hence I hav...

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Writing 10,000 words review | Pither.com / Simon

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Pither.com / Simon. Development, systems administration, parenting and business. Writing 10,000 words review. Posted by Simon Pither. Fri 6th Feb 2015. Wed 11th Feb 2015. Yesterday I set myself a writing challenge. As suggested by Dan Norris. Dedicating the working day to creating new content and attempting to produce 10,000 words. Today I want to reflect on the challenge, see how I did and whether it was useful for me. Writing 10,000 words in a day. Oops, I Snapped the Bed! So I manage just over half th...