For some reason I have had a time finding succinct information on creating a simple full (and by full I mean a file you can use to bare metal recover a database) backup with MariaDB.
1. Make a ~/.my.conf file:
[mysqldump] user=<your_database> password=<your_password>
2. Run this:
mysqldump --add-drop-table -h server_ip database_name | pv | gzip -9 > /tmp/backup.sql.tar.gz
3. Copy your newly created backup file to a secondary storage point.
4. Enjoy!
I ran across some old FLAC files I ripped and for some unknown reason I decided at the time that a the FLAC LOG/CUE format was the way to go. I dunno perhaps I was intoxicated at the time.
At any rate is what I used to split the single FLAC out into files.
Install the necessary tools (this is Pacman which I use on my Manjaro box):
# pacman -S cuetools shntool flac mutagen
Split out the giant FLAC file into smaller track FLAC files:
$ shnsplit -f cue_file.cue -t "%n %t" -o "flac flac -s -8 -o %f -" flac_file.flac
Then this populates the id3 tags in the newly split out FLAC files from the CUE file:
$ cuetag.sh cue_file.cue *.flac
Enjoy!
I am playing around with Flask and I wanted to use the Bcrypt tool to encrypt my users passwords. So like all the other packages I attempted:
pip install flask-bcrypt
That however resulted in this rather unpleasant error:
error: Microsoft Visual C++ 10.0 is required (Unable to find vcvarsall.bat). ---------------------------------------- Failed building wheel for python-bcrypt
That of course sent me on a dizzying hunt for resolution. I got it working by editing the “msvc9_support.py” file to not use the registry and use just the path where I found vcvarsall.bat on my computer:
productdir = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC" # Reg.get_value(key, "installdir")
Elegant? Eh probably not, Utility? perhaps. But it does work and after that I was able to install flask-bcrypt.
I was able to attend VSLive in San Francisco this year including the Pre-Conference (yes nifty indeed) hosted at the historical Fairmont.
I was in San Francisco and I took these from the Crown room on the 24th floor of the Fairmont hotel. I have all my phone pictures backed up via Google and Google Awesome, was well pretty awesome and made these panoramic views from several pictures I took next to each other. Sure they are a bit grainy (they are from my Samsung G4 be nice) but you can see Alcatraz, Fisherman’s Wharf and Golden Gate bridge.
This is the other side I dunno what is noteworthy over here but I thought the shipping container ships were interesting to see out in the water.
Enjoy!
I wanted something a bit more custom looking than the stock WordPress Icon so I decided to take my avatar and make a favIcon from that.
I went to Favicon-Generator it does a nice job of resizing and making the “ico” file, which is pain to create, and gives you several varying sizes of your uploaded image:
It also does a nice job of creating the html to include in your header. I only used a subset from the generated html:
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="192x192" href="/android-icon-192x192.png"> <link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="32x32" href="/favicon-32x32.png"> <link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="96x96" href="/favicon-96x96.png"> <link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="16x16" href="/favicon-16x16.png">
I created a child theme in Word Press then edited the header to include the above in the <head> block.
Enjoy!
Managed to get ASP.NET 5 preview up and working via Visual Studio 2015 RC in a Docker container hosted on my local Ubuntu server (read; not an Azure hosted server). All in Oracle VirtualBox Virtual Machines.
My VirtualBox host is a Windows 8.1 box and I used two VMs: a Windows 7 Development Box (I tried Windows 8.1 in a VM and the performance was terrible) and a Ubuntu Server 14.04.2.
For the most part it was pretty much documented here. My only hiccup was that I had to do a “Restore Packages” to get Grunt to install its packages, this didn’t happen with a “Rebuild” as I would expect. I set my “Custom Docker Host” settings like this:
After publishing from Visual Studio I was able to get a list of the images on the Docker server and it now included the new published app:
{
Created: 1432561734,
Id: "0ad5302ad774376604042790713f79ffa98fceca9826159bcd93b1e20dfce552",
Labels: {},
ParentId: "becb4b73fe255ab7284cfdcf3f5768520736317cd5f0456bf169bb9f441763d3",
RepoDigests: [],
RepoTags: [
"helloworldweb1:latest"
],
Size: 0,
VirtualSize: 756665995
},
So the next challange is to get MongoDB setup running in a Dockerized instance on my Ubuntu server then create a ASP.NET MVC application consuming that server and publish that via Docker and see how performance and maintenance plays out.
I figured out the magic sauce for getting ASP.NET 5 running on Ubuntu 14.04 in a VirtualBox VM.
I followed this mostly for the setup but your Dockerfile should look like this:
FROM microsoft/aspnet COPY project.json /app/ WORKDIR /app RUN ["dnu", "restore"] COPY . /app EXPOSE 5004 ENTRYPOINT ["dnx", "project.json", "kestrel"]
Be sure and set your VirtualBox setting to “Bridged” so you can hit the IP from your workstation.
Enjoy!
Hopefully this will be a start of something new and exciting – or another thing for me to procrastinate about. I have tried several times before to blog consistently I just get, well, sidetracked.
My intention is to blog stuff that I don’t want to forget or stuff that I want to share. Most things I would expect to be of a technical nature but I suspect that sometimes I will want to post something for the ages to remember my wit and wisdom (read; me ranting about something inconsequential).
Enjoy!
Part of being a developer is pushing yourself to learn and use something new. So I decided I would take a language I am familiar with and do MVC in it (as I do ASP.NET MVC in C# daily at work). I looked at several MVC frameworks for Python but decided upon Wheezy.web
After playing around with Sublime Text 3 for about two hours I decided to get a license; and frankly its rare I actually pay for something that there are many FOSS alternatives. Sublime Text 3 is just that good. Yes really, that good. Highly recommend you setup “Package Control” for Sublime Text it makes installing packages a breeze. I used this blog post and installed Anaconda for syntax completion.
This is using the built-in “Sunburst” theme along with the “Dark” Sublime Text layout. It’s a thing of beauty. Here is my “User” config setup :
[js]
{
"color_scheme": "Packages/Color Scheme – Default/Sunburst.tmTheme",
"ensure_newline_at_eof_on_save": true,
"folder_exclude_patterns":
[
".svn",
".git",
".hg",
"CVS",
"__pycache__"
],
"font_face": "Consolas",
"font_size": 12,
"ignored_packages":
[
"Vintage"
],
"indent_to_bracket": true,
"rulers":
[
79
],
"shift_tab_unindent": true,
"theme": "Soda Dark 3.sublime-theme",
"translate_tabs_to_spaces": true,
"trim_trailing_white_space_on_save": true,
"wrap_width": 80
}
[/js]
Wheezy.web has some really impressive features for such a lean framework. This coupled with Mako templates makes for a great foundation for highly concurrent, high performance web projects.