Monthly archives for April, 2009
In praise of JSLint
Short post here, just wanted to give some praise to the JSLint website for offering an incredibly useful tool. I recently saved me a lot of time debugging some ExtJS code, so next time you can’t find that missing comma or extra semi-colon in your minified JS code, give it a shot. http://www.jslint.com
Change control generator
Perhaps you have found yourself in the middle of planning a large maintenance that involves many servers and many clients and all of the work is the same and you noticed that you don’t want to write a change control document for each client or each server.
Well, here’s some code that will write one for you. Just fill in your ar [...]
A quick rundown of per-thread buffers
I saw something interesting today when helping out someone on the #mysql IRC channel. It was a cnf file that was designed to destroy a server. Before I get into the why-not, here are the goods:
...snip...
read_buffer = 128M
join_buffer = 128M
key_buffer = 512M
max_allowed_packet = 200M
thread_stack [...]
Monitoring MySQL with SNMP
A nice write up here: http://www.masterzen.fr/2009/04/13/introducing-mysql-snmp/ “It’s a Net-SNMP perl subagent that connects to your MySQL server, and reports various statistics (from show status or show innodb status, or even replication) through SNMP.”
This might find its way into Kontrollbase soon…
NPR helps out with Kontrollbase
Shain Miley from NPR has recently become a contributor to the Kontrollbase project. He’s been knocking out some of the bugs in the last release and adding good features as well – socket support for the client, server state checks, and many other nice additions. His code will be included with the next release, but if you’re [...]
Kontrollbase 2.0.1-beta revision 21 i...
You can see the change list here: https://fedorahosted.org/kontrollbase/timeline
You can download the new version here: http://kontrollsoft.com/software-downloads
