Category Archives: Software

Testing SPAM and Virus Filters

I’ve recently performed a complete upgrade of Open Solutions’ mail servers and I’ve now moved onto doing likewise for one of our ISP customers with a lot of users. These retrofits include installing virus and SPAM filters to protect both … Continue reading

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Go That Way, Really Fast

In the vein of Release Early, Release Often, Jeff Atwood, CTO of StackOverflow.com, has posted an interesting article on the topic and on the huge amount of work they have gotten done in five months and their fears that they’re … Continue reading

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Continuous Integration for PHP

I stumbled upon phpUnderControl today by chance and it looks like a very interesting project which integrates: PHPUnit PhpDocumentor PHP_CodeSniffer I hope to take a closer look at it in the near future for a new project we’re lining up … Continue reading

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Amazon Web Service’s ec2-bundle-image on Ubuntu

This is really a post for Google’s crawlers on getting AWS’s EC2 AMI tools working under Ubuntu (I’m currently on Gutsy 7.10). Despite any bitching I may do below, EC2 and S3 are cool services. The first problem is that … Continue reading

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Nagios Plugin to Check the Status of PRI Lines in Asterisk

I have a number of Asterisk implementations that I keep an eye on that have multiple PRI connections. Knowing if and when they ever go down has the obvious benefits of alerting me to a problem in near real time. … Continue reading

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