Collin Grady

Update: spoke too soon, they finally got back to me, so maybe it will go somewhere

Update the 2nd: now that they finally got to my ticket, they seem to have taken care of it very quickly; the issue has not happened since they tweaked something last night!

For the past few weeks I’ve been having constant disconnects between me and a server I’m often connected to. (Up to 20 disconnects a day, often grouped together, getting very annoying)

My debugging leads me to believe it’s an issue with some of nLayer’s routers, but so far their support department has completely ignored my messages…
Continue reading I’m beginning to hate nLayer…

Note: This was written several months ago, and I am no longer looking for work

As someone who has been digging through a lot of job listings, I have a suggestion for those writing them:

Please, stop posting what you don’t want, and limit it to what you do.

I’ve been looking mostly for telecommute jobs, but when I search for telecommute along with other keywords, I find posting after posting saying “NO TELECOMMUTE” or similar – you’re only going to attract people looking for that keyword by posting it

If they just left it at “ON-SITE ONLY” it would not show up in a search for telecommute positions

So at work recently, we started looking at switching our django setups from mod_python to mod_wsgi, as we kept having memory and cpu use issues with mod_python, and mod_wsgi was supposed to be far better with performance.

Well, it’s only been a day so far, but the results have been very promising. Our memory usage was cut in half, and load bottomed out.

Edit: this is daemon mode with threads=1

Initial testing showed more drastic improvements, so for anyone else testing, take initial results with a grain of salt

With that said, here are the actual results:

Just after switching:

A day after switching:

Too early to be absolutely sure that everything is working well, but it’s all looking good so far

I really have to agree with John Cleese…

Not too long ago at work, we added a few more servers to our production deployment to speed things up – however, this made deploying code changes a bit more complicated, as you had to remember to update several servers every time.  I decided to look into Capistrano, which I’d heard about before, and am glad to say it’s working very well, once I managed to figure it out.
Continue reading Deploying Projects With Capistrano…