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[Workaround] Ripple Riak Access via Solr Interface

2011-12-29T03:26:00.000-08:00

Riak and Ripple are both undergoing heavy development. If you are relying on using Ripple to enable_searching on a new bucket, you'll need my fork or the monkey-patch below.

# Monkey-patch a broken Solr interface...                                                                                                   
module Riak                                                                                                                                 
  class Bucket                                                                                                                              
    def is_indexed?                                                                                                                         
      props['search'] == true || (props['precommit'] && props['precommit'].include?(SEARCH_PRECOMMIT_HOOK))                                 
    end                                                                                                                                     
    def enable_index!                                                                                                                       
      unless is_indexed?                                                                                                                    
        self.props = {"precommit" => ((props['precommit']||[]) + [SEARCH_PRECOMMIT_HOOK]), "search" => true}                                
      end                                                                                                                                   
    end                                                                                                                                     
    def disable_index!                                                                                                                      
      if is_indexed?                                                                                                                        
        self.props = {"precommit" => ((props['precommit']||[]) - [SEARCH_PRECOMMIT_HOOK]), "search" => false}                               
      end                                                                                                                                   
    end                                                                                                                                     
  end                                                                                                                                       
end

[Workaround] Dnsruby GEM not working on Heroku

2011-12-28T14:57:00.000-08:00

The rationale is in this google group:

*blah* *blah* Errno::ECONNREFUSED *blah* *blah* on heroku trying to open listening socket on localhost

The solution: after you require 'dnsruby', add this line:

require 'dnsruby'
# Patch Dnsruby which is broken on Heroku:
module Dnsruby; class SelectThread;     def get_socket_pair; srv = nil; srv = TCPServer.new('::1', 0); rsock = TCPSocket.new(srv.addr[3], srv.addr[1]); lsock = srv.accept; srv.close; return [lsock, rsock]; end; end; end

You're welcome!

[Howto] Disable Chrome's Request Throttling

2011-12-26T07:23:00.000-08:00

Visit: chrome://net-internals/#httpThrottling

Uncheck the checkbox:

And never see this message again:
Error 139 (net::ERR_TEMPORARILY_THROTTLED): Requests to the server have been temporarily throttled.

[Workaround] Riak create object without key

2011-11-13T20:34:00.001-08:00

Unfortunately today's java-riak interface does not allow creating objects without specifying a key. This means effectively sending a POST rather than a PUT and not including a key (or setting key=null). For my needs, I was calling the java lib through clojure. My workaround? Pre-manufacture UUIDs:

(defn riak-post [client bucket obj]
  (let [key (uuid/uuid)]
    (client/put client bucket key
                {:value (.getBytes obj)
                 :content-type "text/plain"})
    key))

[Resolved] Whirr on OS/X fails to package from source

2011-11-04T23:47:00.001-07:00

If you found this, you're trying to build Apache's Whirr by following these instructions and running into an error at this step:

mvn package -Ppackage

And the error looks like:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-assembly-plugin:2.2-beta-5:single (dist-assembly) on project whirr: Failed to create assembly: Error adding file to archive: /Users/jonathan/Projects/whirr-0.6.0-incubating-src/NOTICE-src.txt isn't a file. -> [Help 1]
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoExecutionException

The solution is:

cp NOTICE.txt NOTICE-src.txt

You're welcome!

[Resolved] Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no

2011-10-28T18:12:00.000-07:00

Building mysql gem fails with the errors at the end of the post. To resolve:

sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev

Full logs of error for searchers:


Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

        /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ree-1.8.7-2011.03/bin/ruby extconf.rb 
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
checking for main() in -lm... yes
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
checking for main() in -lz... yes
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
checking for main() in -lsocket... no
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
checking for main() in -lnsl... yes
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
checking for main() in -lmygcc... no
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more
details.  You may need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:
 --with-opt-dir
 --without-opt-dir
 --with-opt-include
 --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
 --with-opt-lib
 --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
 --with-make-prog
 --without-make-prog
 --srcdir=.
 --curdir
 --ruby=/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ree-1.8.7-2011.03/bin/ruby
 --with-mysql-config
 --without-mysql-config
 --with-mysql-dir
 --without-mysql-dir
 --with-mysql-include
 --without-mysql-include=${mysql-dir}/include
 --with-mysql-lib
 --without-mysql-lib=${mysql-dir}/lib
 --with-mysqlclientlib
 --without-mysqlclientlib
 --with-mlib
 --without-mlib
 --with-mysqlclientlib
 --without-mysqlclientlib
 --with-zlib
 --without-zlib
 --with-mysqlclientlib
 --without-mysqlclientlib
 --with-socketlib
 --without-socketlib
 --with-mysqlclientlib
 --without-mysqlclientlib
 --with-nsllib
 --without-nsllib
 --with-mysqlclientlib
 --without-mysqlclientlib
 --with-mygcclib
 --without-mygcclib
 --with-mysqlclientlib
 --without-mysqlclientlib

[Resolved] Clojure + Tesseract + OSX

2011-10-28T03:57:00.000-07:00

Trying to get https://github.com/antoniogarrote/clj-tesseract working on OS/X?

Here's the fix assuming you've brew install tesseract:

diff --git a/microcr/Makefile b/microcr/Makefile

index 90abace..67b841a 100644

--- a/microcr/Makefile

+++ b/microcr/Makefile

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@

-INCLUDES = -I/opt/local/include/tesseract `pkg-config --cflags opencv`

-LIBS = -L/opt/local/lib -ltesseract_api `pkg-config --libs opencv`

+INCLUDES = -I/usr/local/Cellar/tesseract/3.00/include/tesseract `pkg-config --cflags opencv`

+LIBS = -L/usr/local/Cellar/tesseract/3.00/lib -ltesseract_api `pkg-config --libs opencv`

DYLIB = -arch x86_64 -dynamiclib -o libmicrocr.dylib

INSTALL_PATH = -install_name /usr/local/lib/microcr/libmicrocr.dylib

CC = g++

diff --git a/microcr/src/image.h b/microcr/src/image.h

index db335cd..bb11a91 100644

--- a/microcr/src/image.h

+++ b/microcr/src/image.h

@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@

#ifndef __IMAGE_H__

#define __IMAGE_H__

+#include

#include

+using namespace std;

class Image

{

Why? heroku[router]: Error H12 (Request timeout)

2011-09-22T12:31:00.000-07:00

Those of you getting 500 errors from Heroku may find entries like this in the logs (heroku logs):

2011-09-22T11:43:49+00:00 heroku[router]: Error H12 (Request timeout) -> GET www.domain.com/controller/action dyno=web.1 queue= wait= service=30000ms status=503 bytes=0

The H12 is a Heroku routing layer-specific problem. It indicates your request took over 30 seconds (why is for another post).

In Heroku's words:

An H12 error happens when our routing layer intercepts a request longer than 30 seconds. The request is terminated and an HTTP 504 (Gateway Timeout) response is returned to the client. Meanwhile, the dyno handling the request will finish processing. The dyno will not be able to handle further requests until processing is complete. If your app is seeing a lot of traffic, additional requests may queue behind the busy dyno, causing further H12 errors. For this reason, we recommend using the 'rack-timeout' plugin - https://github.com/kch/rack-timeout - to limit request time in your app.

Matz and Me

2011-09-01T10:08:00.001-07:00

How cool is that? Thanks Heroku!

Good to see good friends

2011-08-25T11:27:00.000-07:00

A bit of an old team reunion today. Great to see Cary, Josh and David--completely serendipitous FTW.

[RESOLVED] Lion + rvm install ree-1.8.7-2011.03 Error...

2011-08-09T22:39:00.000-07:00

Short answer:

export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.2; rvm install ree-1.8.7-2011.03 --force

Long answer:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6804195/cant-install-ruby-enterprise-edition-with-rvm-on-osx-lion

The build log of pain:

rvm install ree-1.8.7-2011.03 --force
Installing Ruby Enterprise Edition from source to: /Users/jonathan/.rvm/rubies/ree-1.8.7-2011.03
ree-1.8.7-2011.03 - #fetching (ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2011.03)
ree-1.8.7-2011.03 - #extracting ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2011.03 to /Users/jonathan/.rvm/src/ree-1.8.7-2011.03
ree-1.8.7-2011.03 - #installing
ERROR: Error running './installer -a /Users/jonathan/.rvm/rubies/ree-1.8.7-2011.03 --no-tcmalloc --dont-install-useful-gems ', please read /Users/jonathan/.rvm/log/ree-1.8.7-2011.03/install.log
ERROR: There has been an error while trying to run the ree installer. Halting the installation.

MacBookAir + 128GB SSD + No space for XCode

2011-07-29T22:51:00.000-07:00

As is happening more and more--when I have a problem I can't find the solution on google. This evening I was looking for an XCode alternative that would give me GCC without the weight of 5GB+ of XCode whatevar additions. Google did not return anything interesting.

Then as if the internets and I are secretly in cahoots--I came across this post on the third page of HNews...

Installers for GCC on OSX Without all of XCode

It's just what I needed. Lowfat compiling on OS/X. BTW--this quest started from a desire to install some gems not found in binary form.

UFW with DNS and SSH

2011-05-21T08:08:00.000-07:00

> sudo ufw allow ssh

> sudo ufw allow 53

> sudo ufw enable

> sudo ufw status

Status: active

To Action From

-- ------ ----

22 ALLOW Anywhere

53 ALLOW Anywhere

SSH slow first connection

2011-05-20T07:57:00.000-07:00

It's likely the SSH server doing a reverse lookup on your IP. Fix: sudo echo "UseDns no" >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config sudo service ssh restart

DRAC + ubuntu

2011-05-17T07:21:00.000-07:00

For anyone else inheriting a collection of DRAC-enabled servers... plug in the remote access controller network port. Go to: http://192.168.0.120 (you'll have to set your network IP to one in the 192.168.0.X block beforehand). You'll get a nice SSL warning, then use root/calvin to log in.

If you've gotten this far, go find a Windows machine (or run Parallels) and do the same login process but from within IE. Then find the Console tab and hit Connect. You will be prompted to download an IE plugin and you'll have to turnoff pop-up blocking and then... *Boom* You've got a vkvm console.

Now fiddle as you wish.

When you're done, grab the latest ubuntu ISO (64bit FTW). Go to the Media tab and add the ISO as Virtual Media (you should be prompted to download a plugin... and you will have reduce your security settings on IE to get this to install). Use the CD/DVD-ROM Drive section with ISO Image File.

Then back to Power Management, Power Cycle System.

Your vkvm display will show the ubuntu install wizard. Walk through it. When you're done turn on ssh:

sudo apt-get install openssh-server

And grab the DHCP IP:

ifconfig # find the eth0/1 IF IP address

Then ssh in from another machine and check SSH/Networking is solid.

Now setup the OMSA (OpenManage tools from Dell):

echo 'deb http://linux.dell.com/repo/community/deb/latest /' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/linux.dell.com.sources.list

gpg --keyserver pgpkeys.mit.edu --recv-key E74433E25E3D7775 gpg -a --export E74433E25E3D7775 | sudo apt-key add - sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install srvadmin-base

You can read more directly from Dell, but to get access to the basics, run:

/opt/dell/srvadmin/sbin/omreport system summary

Kids Video: How a Lightbulb Works

2011-03-13T09:07:00.000-07:00

Well, not entirely for the kids--I'm more the ductile tungsten expert than before--but the kids did enjoy.

NAO Robots!

2011-03-11T08:56:00.000-08:00

For a few years I was a QRIO junkie, hoping they would come to market with an attainable price tag. Then... out of the blue, I find NAO. These French-built robots are hard to resist... and my kids love the video.

2010 Highlight: This photo

2010-12-21T07:35:00.000-08:00

Rarely does two techies meeting lead to such an incredible photo op.

Mark Smallcombe @ Funny Or Die, Palo Alto, CA, January 2010

NameError (uninitialized constant Syck::Syck)

2010-12-10T09:33:00.001-08:00

If you've gotten to this post searching for an error you are having on your Rails app, then I'm about to save you a few days of your life. Ease your blood pressure for the week. And ultimately have a solution.

I've just completed an exhaustive search through a large, dynamic Rails3 project to find the root of Rails crashing in production (on Heroku) with the only feedback being this one-line message in the logs:

NameError (uninitialized constant Syck::Syck)

I originally thought it was one of the gems included in the deploy. To debug, I started to halve the Gemfile manually--then do a bundle install; git commit; git push cycle to heroku and see if the error persisted.

How did I recreate the error? I went to the site, used the devise-omniauth integration to authenticate through Facebook. Returned to the Rails3 site (having been recognized as logged in). Then click the logout (/users/sign_out) which is handled by devise. And BHAMMO! The site gives a 500 error and the logs print the Syck::Syck message.

Now after removing a ton of gems and cycling through this debug method, I found that the gems weren't influencing the error, but was was this line in the application controller:

geocode_ip_address

It's for the geokit gem to automatically geocode users (from their IP) and inject the location into a cookie variable. With it, CRASH (Syck::Syck). Without it, no issues whatsoever.

Solution? Toss the line. Manually manage the geo IP lookup.

For reference here's my Gemfile:

source 'http://rubygems.org'

source 'http://gems.github.com'

gem 'rails', '3.0.3'

gem 'mysql2' # UTF-8 is foobar'd with ordinary mysql gem

gem 'thin'

gem "simple_record", :git => 'git://github.com/appoxy/simple_record.git'

# Bundle edge Rails instead:

# gem 'rails', :git => 'git://github.com/rails/rails.git'

# Solves Ruby 1.9.2 Chronic Tick issue. (Heroku cron won't start.)

gem "aaronh-chronic", ">=0.3.9", :git => "git://github.com/AaronH/chronic.git", :require => 'chronic'

# Moved into vendor/gems...

# gem "chronic", :path => File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '/vendor/gems/chronic')

gem 'activemerchant'

gem "acts_as_markup"

gem 'address_standardization'

gem 'fog'

gem "carmen" # For Carmen::state_codes('US')

# gem "behavior"

gem 'carrierwave'

gem "contacts"

gem 'devise', :git => 'git://github.com/plataformatec/devise.git' #, :branch => 'omniauth'

# gem "devise_rpx_connectable"

gem "domainatrix"

gem "elcgeo"

gem "escape_utils"

gem "erubis"

gem "eyeballs", '0.5.12'

gem "formtastic"

gem "friendly_id"

gem "gdata19", :require => "gdata"

gem "geokit" #, :git => "git://github.com/MichalZ/geokit-gem.git"

gem 'geokit-rails3'

#, :git => 'git://github.com/jlecour/geokit-rails.git', :branch => 'gem'

#git://github.com/jlecour/geokit-rails3.git

# gem "geokit"

# TODO: See which geokit-rails becomes stable:

# gem "geokit-rails"

# gem 'geokit-rails', :git => 'git://github.com/jlecour/geokit-rails.git', :branch => 'gem'

# gem 'geokit-rails3'

gem "GeoRuby"

gem "googlecharts"

gem 'highline', :require => 'highline/import'

gem "hpricot"

gem "httparty"

gem "inherited_resources"

gem "is_taggable"

gem 'jammit'

gem "mechanize"

gem "meta_search"

gem "oa-oauth", :require => "omniauth/oauth"

gem "osmlib-base"

# gem "paths_of_glory" # Broken... hacked plugin code instead

#gem 'paths_of_glory', :git => 'git://github.com/raid5/paths_of_glory.git', :branch => 'rails3'

gem "pauldix-feedzirra" #, :require => "feedzirra"

gem "pusher"

gem 'rack-facebook-signed-request'

gem 'rest-client'

gem 'rmagick'

gem 'right_aws', :git => 'git://github.com/mikel/right_aws.git'

# TODO: alt right_aws gem since original is poorly maintained git://github.com/ktheory/right_aws.git

# gem "rpx_now"

gem 'sunspot', :require => 'sunspot'

gem 'sunspot_rails', '1.2.rc4'

gem "timeline_fu"

gem "thin"

gem 'vestal_versions', :git => 'git://github.com/adamcooper/vestal_versions.git'

gem "will_paginate", "~> 3.0.pre2"

gem "ym4r"

gem 'delayed_job', :git => 'git://github.com/collectiveidea/delayed_job.git'

gem 'faker'

gem 'rack-rewrite', '~> 1.0.0'

Cupcakes of sadness

2010-11-19T17:35:00.000-08:00

Rarely is childhood sadness captured so well. Here's my three oldest boys after a long day in London during school break. Everything was perfect. So perfect that we ended up breaking our sugar-avoiding rule and buying mini-cupcakes for the boys. Unfortunately, when we opened the box to enjoy them, there were issues. Do not worry. Despite the unbearable sadness, all the cupcakes were eaten.

At UCD this Friday at 6PM

2010-11-11T06:54:00.000-08:00

My blog is once again my event calendar. Tomorrow I will be joining Sean Murphy and a group of startup-ready UCD kids to kick off a build weekend. If you are at UCD and want a taste of garage-startup culture, stop by the event. We start Friday @ 6pm with... Free Pizza!

The evening's agenda:

Brendans Irish Pub and Restaurant

2010-10-31T17:32:00.000-07:00

Entering my fourth year living in Ireland, it seems appropriate that I bring back a taste of Ireland to my previous haunts in Southern California. As was covered in the Ventura County Star earlier this month, I have a pub opening in Camarillo, California this winter. Find out more on Facebook, Twitter, or Yelp.

Speaking at Dublin Web Summit this 28/29th

2010-10-22T17:50:00.000-07:00

Paddy Cosgrave is organizing an event bringing Guinness-ready international techies to Dublin under the auspices of a Web Summit. Since I'm already here and, yes, Guinness-thirsty, I've joined the speaking crew. You can expect something in line with my failure kick--but will add some spice in case you've caught my vimeo.

ELC change of guard...

2010-10-17T17:03:00.000-07:00

ELC Technologies--the consultancy that started as my BBS "The Electric Connection" in 1990 recently sold to Kamran Pourzanjani and Omid Rhamat. ELC's team has been the execution arm of many successful startups as well as big business initiatives. To me they brought to life my successes RightCart, RightScale and RightSignature--and many, many others that failed quickly and quietly.

On a day-to-day basis, I have had the opportunity to work with bright, hard-working, hilarious and energetic teammates that made work feel like play. At least that was my point of view. :-) On the team side, I'm sure I've encouraged among other things: turning off your cell phone while on vacation; linkbait vigilance--especially in mid-day IMs; not calling a bluff on "what do you think about being in [XXX Country] tomorrow?"; to name a few.

I'm looking forward to seeing what ELC will deliver next--especially what they're brewing with me as a client.

BizConf Keynote recording now online

2010-10-17T17:01:00.000-07:00

From this year's BizConf. The video here:

BizConf 2010: Jonathan Siegel: Keynote from Hashrocket on Vimeo.

At FOWA...

2010-10-04T03:08:00.000-07:00

Speaking briefly this Tuesday at Future of Web Apps London and hosting an after event focused on Location. If you are in town find me at the event.

ELC in the Inc 500

2010-09-19T02:31:00.000-07:00

The Ruby on Rails firm I founded made it into this year's Inc 500. I'll be in Washington DC for next week's Inc 500 conference. Any interesting startups in DC?

Speaking at TEDxDUBLIN

2010-09-14T05:21:00.000-07:00

Speaking at next week's TEDxDUBLIN.

Speaking in a Bus at Funconf

2010-09-01T16:48:00.000-07:00

Destined to be the "best conference ever, in a bus." It's FunConf organized by my friend and talented entrepreneur Paul Campbell. He's got a great lineup for the event. It's sold out, but if you are in town, track us down--there will be an after party or two. I'll be talking about failure, recovering quickly and how there's a difference in the US, EU/UK and Ireland when it comes to acceptance and support [of failure].

Denver Business Journal BizConf Coverage

2010-08-17T22:14:00.001-07:00

Thank you to Kimberly Morrison for her write-up of my talk! Her recap:

Why it matters: Fear of failure can hinder innovation, so embracing and planning for failure can create a safety net that allows businesses to take risks. Read more: Technology conference delivers on business savvy - Denver Business Journal

BizConf a fantastic event

2010-08-08T21:11:00.001-07:00

Had a great time at this year's BizConf. Gave a keynote on day one and really enjoyed seeing David Allen of GTD fame do his keynote AND was good to get my butt kicked into doing weekly reviews of the lists I love to make.

Speaking in Croke Park

2010-07-27T11:21:00.000-07:00

At The 2010 Cloud Computing Summit

Moving from theory to reality with respect to cloud computing is where things get complicated and this is where attending the 2010 Cloud Computing Summit comes in.

Kids at the Apple

2010-06-12T07:27:00.000-07:00

As a 16 year old I took my first job at a Bay Area computer firm--and remember trekking throughout the Bay in my '77 Dodge Aspen making deliveries. Along the way I saw names like Oracle and Yahoo and Excite (@ Home, for a short while) and Apple. The names were on buildings instead of websites and I was fascinated to connect the dots between a real workplace with real people and the virtual experiences with the same brands.

Yesterday I gave my kids their first taste at the same experience thanks to a long time school friend. We got a tour of an environmental testing facility that had ovens, freezers, corrosive chambers, drop testing and other simulated torture chambers. The kids had a great time with the tour demystifying a small bit of technology magic, seeing Brian and taking the Caltrain twice.

Presenting at Open Enterprise Day this Thursday

2010-05-22T14:19:00.001-07:00

Open Enterprise Day @ The GEC. Thursday 27th May 2010

The Guinness Enterprise Centre in collaboration with Dublin BIC invites you to an Open Day of seminars, workshops and talks aimed at entrepreneurs and high growth start-ups culminating in a GEC first of “Lets Build an iPad App!” with Guest Speaker & Serial Entrepreneur, Jonathan Siegel from ELC Tech. in California - complete with iPads on-site!

Other topic covered throughout the day will be:

Raising Equity Capital

Investor-ready business planning

Legals, IP generation and protection

Commercial Partnerships

SEO, CPC advertising and online marketing

Social media strategy

IP videoconferencing as a sales tool

Enterprise Ireland Supports

iPad App Development

You should read more here.

I'm at Ireland's Dragon's Den tomorrow afternoon...

2010-04-15T08:38:00.000-07:00

OK--It's not the Dragon's Den. I don't have a TV, so I only know the Dragon's Den by description--but that's what we're going to be doing tomorrow at the NDRC for nine companies finishing a YCombinator-esque program in Dublin. I've given a small financial commitment to the event and will be sitting on the judges' panel to give feedback and weigh in on the larger award being provided.

Entrepreneurs: Good luck!

Sorry I couldn't make dinner, but the volcano...

2010-04-15T03:02:00.001-07:00

No really. Just got off a transatlantic flight ready to hop planes to Copenhagen. Got a call that a volcano might have blocked our flight path. It did.

Thanks for the patience Henrik!

Cloud consultant wants Amazon Web Services revamp

2010-04-09T01:41:00.000-07:00

My post on ReadWriteWeb about Amazon's Public EBS Snapshots getting some coverage in IT World Canada:

A poorly designed feature in Amazon’s Web Services platform could present a security risk for developers or programmers that are new to the cloud, according to a cloud computing consultant.

Jonathan Siegel, CEO and founder of Santa Barbara, Calif.-based ELC Technologies, said the issue stems from the AWS Web console, which gives users the option to make their online backup snapshots — similar to a tape backup — public or private. The default setting is private, but some users are mistakenly checking off public, and publishing secure data to the world.

Read the article.

Speaking at BizConf in August...

2010-04-08T12:26:00.001-07:00

Opening Keynote: Embracing the F word

Thursday, August 05, 2010 at 9:10 AM Serial entrepreneur Jonathan Siegel will talk about using your failures to find success, an inspiring and informative keynote talk to open BizConf 2010.

Read more about my talk or buy your ticket.

My UCD Talk Booklist

2010-04-08T12:08:00.000-07:00

Firstly--many thanks to Sean Murphy for arranging the time to speak today--and everyone that attended your feedback is welcome. In a comment and by email I've had a request for my reading list recommendations. Here they are:

Corporate Lifecycles, Ichak Adizes
Agile & Iterative Development, Craig Larman
Pragmatic Programmer, Andrew Hunt & David Thomas
Hypomanic Edge, John D. Gartner
Four Steps to the Epiphany, Steven Gary Blank
Electric Connections, Jonathan Siegel, :-P

Or as a pdf.

Speaking in Dublin April 8th...

2010-04-06T06:33:00.000-07:00

UCD Computer Science will be hosting a short programme of events,
some of which may be of interest to ISA members. Two particular events may be of interest: - a panel discussion on legal issues around cloud computing - a talk by Jonathan Siegel on embracing failure (in the context of web-based startups) More info at: http://www.csi.ucd.ie/content/digital-dayz-10

Siegel.ie FTW!

2010-04-05T00:42:00.000-07:00

BTW--if you've tracked my posts on the Irish Domain Registry you'll know they didn't want to give me the domain Siegel.ie. I took the opportunity to repurpose my frustration into writing practice and was pleasantly pleased with the outcome. You can find my other posts below.

I didn't give a good wrap-up for how I actually got the domain. In case you want an Irish domain, don't bother reading the requirements, since they don't follow them.

Instead, go to this website (the CRO), pay the €20 for a registered name. Then contact one of the second-party registration companies and send them the receipt from the CRO. You'll have your domain in a couple days.

Easy-Peazy.

My post on ReadWriteWeb

2010-04-04T07:18:00.000-07:00

I recently had a guest post on ReadWriteWeb on security mistakes being made by users of Amazon's Web Services platform. If you use AWS, I encourage you to take a read.

Speaking in Dublin April 21st...

2010-03-24T18:54:00.000-07:00

I'll be speaking at the Software & Information Industry Association event at the NDRC. I'll be doing a live demo of instant startups in the cloud. If you have a piqued interest in using the cloud for your business, you will find this event interesting. You should register now.

It's in the coolest building in Dublin. The NDRC--a digital lab literally surrounded by millions of gallons of Guinness.

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What's the first thing you notice in this photo?

2010-02-04T18:29:00.000-08:00

I agree! I'm awfully short.

Next time I'm at the mansion, I'm wearing the bunny ears and high heels.

All Your Engrish are Belong to Us.

2010-01-30T05:26:00.001-08:00

Congratulations to Paul Groake and Garret Hussey. The two most amicable entrepreneurs in Ireland. Besides--they've picked a killer market of 500m English languages learners (in Asia alone). This month they've won the 2009 Emerging Entrepreneur award.

Their product is the lovechild of eLearning and immersive worlds. Think flashcards meets Half-Life with a focus on self-discovery. You use RendezVu by entering a 3D environment--like a train station--and interact with objects and actors in real-world scenarios. Walk up to the station counter and get asked "Where are you heading to?"

Coaching, speech recognition, goal tracking and great content come together to help teach language in virtually real situations.

Is there a letter of the law vs spirit of the law distinction in Ireland?

2010-01-19T01:30:00.001-08:00

I'm getting Siegel.ie registered with the IEDR and doing a few posts along the way. I expected to learn some tech tidbits through the process, but didn't expect to see so much fabric of culture exposed. Let me explain.

In my last post I mentioned this "Unincorporated Association." It's a nifty catch-all for anyone not doing anything as a Corporation. It is not understood by the IEDR--or most Irish I've spoken to. The IEDR does not use a legal definition of an Unincorporated Association. The right way to move them towards a legal definiton is a legal challenge--but that's a future post.

Why are rules and policies created?

For public entities we expect rules and policies to be stated and adhered to. We want fairness. We want expectations set for predictable results. We want to know what expectations are set for our own performance.

There's an issue here though. We like rules to be concise and clear. Concise and clear--what's the issue?

The issue is that more clarity often requires more rules--while more conciseness requires less rules.

For instance--let's look at the IEDR and their Unincorporated Associations. From one perspective, the IEDR is clear: if you are an Unincorporated Association, send us your blog link and get your domain. From another perspective, the IEDR is not clear at all--rejecting legally valid associations with no accountability.

The IEDR suffers from being too concise--a stated policy that is too terse. There is a hidden agenda in the IEDR policy that is hard to coax out. In this case more clarity--or a verbose policy--would possibly uncover that agenda.

The Agenda

It's clear with our example that there are two types of decisions being made for domain approval: a stated, explicit one, and an implied, implicit one. This is not a surprise since we expect a tradeoff between overspecifying and underspecifying rules in any circumstance.

What is a surprise--is that usually there is a theme--often a best-interest-in-a-discernable-direction that can be infered from looking at the effects of the implicit rules. You might call this "the agenda." And for the IEDR that theme is not clear nor discernable.

Thanks to the bible we have a phrase for what we usually expect from rules--a well stated set of requirements called the "letter of the law" and implied requirements called the "spirit of the law." You know what this means already--covet another man's wife in action--well that's the letter of the law being broken. Do it in your heart and mind only? That's the spirit of the law being broken. And no--it's not my example.

It's really darn easy to see the difference between obeying the stated law vs the implied one. It's also easy to see that a rule like this would have been horrendous to have to spell out.

Rule #17123: Do not put lips of man against lips of other woman.

This is great, except if you are giving CPR! Then you break Rule #17123, fire and brimstone and all that. So you take that rule out--and ecstasy-laden CPR parties become the heavenly rage.

We've got a nice clear theme and see the tradeoffs of letter vs spirit.

Now back to the IEDR. They are aggressive in denying domain names based on non-stated rules. Let's try and divine their deeper purpose.

The IEDR could be following unstated rules to make sure that there is perceived quality in the IE domainspace. Quality on the internet means--not a lot of squatting--high signal vs noise. In a previous post we've shown this not to be the case.

The IEDR could be following unstated rules to keep the IE domainspace "Irishy." Now this is something I thought was happening since Doyle and David and Nolan got their surnames as domain names but Siegel didn't. But this is such an easy rule to make stated--like: No names that aren't in the Irish book of names before 1850.

The IEDR could be following unstated rules to keep any surnames from ever becoming domain names. Now this would contradict the fact that Doyle and David and Muphy are registered.

OK--so a few trys didn't prove fruitful--have a suggestion? Leave it in the comments.

Irony

Without divining a deeper purpose in the IEDR's domain management mayhem, we can still appreciate their irony.

Take Siegel.ie. A domain application has been submitted for Category 6 Publication Name for an Unincorporated Association. The legal constraints and stated policy are fully satisfied; however, the application has been denied.

At the same time--Ireland's a small Country--I keep meeting friends of friends of those darned registrars. They have infered a deeper purpose that I never would have guessed: Don't take away our control.

The registrars have been beaten up before my adventures. They have suffered years of mistakes and the community in Ireland has laid into them. So they have retaliated--by reigning in the only power they have--approving applications--and exercising their power in an arbitrary manner. And an application like mine--that meets the stated policy--has little hope of succeeding on its own merits.

What is an Unincorporated Association and how can I get one?

2010-01-18T03:18:00.000-08:00

¿Unincorporealated Ashmorginacion?

Amazing isn't it how quickly normal-sounding words can be put together to form quasi-legal mumbo-jumbo eyes-glazing stomach-turning content-lacking syllablisms?

Unless you are a history buff or recently read Life Inc (I recommend it) you may not know where corporations came from, what purpose they serve or why the inverse of one is a thorn in the side of Ireland's domain registrar (IEDR). To understand Unincorporated Associations we first need to understand Incorporated ones and then we can start to make sense out of the IEDR.

Corporations are a gift from Society to one or more Individuals. These Individuals receive the gift of organizing as a whole, rather than individually. This is only possible because Society allows it and we allow it primarily because "that's the way it's always been." Or at least in our lifetimes.

Corporations gain privileges from Society. The extent of privilege depends on each Society--on each Country. Privileges range from tax advantages to lobbying powers to billions of subsidization revenue. Corporations can also be--in the eyes of the law--a person. Like really a person.

Forming a Corporation generally requires the drafting of Articles of Association and submitting them to a governing body. In the US, this is done at the State level--so you can have a Corporation that is a California Corporation if you present your Articles of Association to the California Secretary of State. Alternatively, you can create a Delaware Corporation if you submit your Articles of Association to the Delaware Secretary of State.

Before you go off to create the next Google, here's a few questions to ponder:

Is there only one kind of Corporation?
Why would you choose one State of Incorporation over another?
Do you have to be physically located in the State of Incorporation?
Must you only have employees in your State of Incorporation?
Must you only conduct business in your State of Incorporation?
Is a Company ALWAYS a Corporation?
What privileges do a Corporation receive and how do these vary by type, State and even Country?

OK--stopped you in your tracks didn't I? No worries--that's why I love my attorney.

When I have a question about Corporations, I ask my attorney. They tend to give me a 10,000 ft view. They hide lots of details to keep me from overthinking. They know I lack experience and I don't have deep insight into the structures. They also see what is "commonly done" which can save time and keep me on track.

So--we know what a Corporation is, roughly how you form one and I've admitted that I usually punt to my attorney. That brings us to the "Unincorporated Association" and the IEDR.

I'm in the process of registering Siegel.ie. To do this I need to fall into one of 11 published categories of domain name applications. I read through the listing and one that caught my eye was Category 6--for Publication Names. I've always wanted this blog at Siegel.something, so what better way to get a domain than at Siegel.ie.

A Category 6 requires that you be a "Sole Trader, Company, Unincorporated Association, State Agency or Educational Institution." Since I write the Siegel blog, I had to see whether I fit under one of these categories. A quick call to my attorney told me that Ireland's Unincorporated Association would be just the fit for me.

It turns out that all an Unincorporated Association is--is anyone doing anything without specifically declaring it to be under an Incorporated Association. Hah! That's certainly me. In fact, you, right now, reading this blog, are an Unincorporated Association--even if you are on your own! I shall name you--the Unincorporated Association of the Siegel Blog Readers at {Your IP Address Here}. Feels pretty cool to be your own association, eh?

As I've written in earlier posts, the IEDR is going through a tough time. They have a registration policy that is published, but not followed. Moreover, they lack a legal resource to support claims on words such as "Unincorporated Association." For instance, they say in passing that an individual cannot be an Unincorporated Association:

What do you do when confronted with a public-funded body giving you contradictory legal advice? You ask them to clarify:

Please note that my Solicitors have countered your argument that there is a limit of membership such that an individual can not form an unincorporated association. I have cc'd them here and you are welcome to hold me accountable and validate this with them. You have made such a statement below. How can I hold you accountable to your statement? Please provide a legal reference that supports your statement. Additionally, how may I take action such that your policies, shown to be incorrect, are mended?

Their response?

The IEDR has sent three additional notices in response to my application, but has ignored this request for clarification. You can imagine the customer rep there trying to start to answer the question and giving up and eventually ignoring it. In a world where people responded honestly I'd probably get this back:

Dear Foreigner Mr. Siegel,

I don't like your name. Moreover I have to deal with whiney twits like you all day long.

If I give you a domain name, I get yelled at. I don't like it and I hope you can appreciate this negative incentive carries a heavy weight in the evaluation of domain name approvals.

Oh yeah--your application.

I know you marked category 6 for Publication Name. Of course I saw that! But if I write back to you and say you can't have a personal surname as a domain name, I do what's called "disabling your intention." See--by responding with selective information I can deny you for a category 1 application, even when--I admit--you were quite clear that you didn't want a category 1 application.

You have to agree that there is genius in that Mr. Siegel, don't you?

Now after you started cc'ing ComReg and god-knows-who-else, I admitted that I had re-intepreted your application as to maximize its denial. And you thought you were going to get your domain?

See--when you started sending me the documents I requested, you didn't realize that they go right into my "counter-file." We start compiling a counter-file the minute you contact us. This is where we put all of our reasons NOT to give you your domain. Do you want see your counter-file?

Counter-File for Siegel
You called me a Duder.
Your last name isn't Irishy like doyle.ie, david.ie, dave.ie, curtin.ie, or paul.ie.
You were willing to respond to my purposefully oblique requests.
There's this weird life imitating art imitating life thing going on between your "publication" and your "application."
You wrote your letterhead by hand. Hahahahaha! He wrote it by hand! I bet he's not even a duly authorized letterheaderer!
Farce nor Sarcasm are acceptable for domains published as Category 6 Publication Names.
In the book by which we lookup what does and does not constitute a surname--well it's not a book--well--we just added Siegel to this Post-It on my monitor--since what a crazy name that is for a surname--never saw one of those surnames before--anyway--it's in the "book" of surnames now.
Keep on with this Unincorporated Association thing. He thinks he's found a legal definition, but remember--we don't have to admit there's a legal definition. So keep ignoring his requests to be definite, but don't discourage him from wasting time and money on researching whether there is really a definition.
I definitely suggest that anyone on this case subscribe to his blog. He's really got some good information and I'm worried that others may use his "techniques" to get past our application process. We cannot let this happen!
Eventually we may have to admit that we have adulterated his application. Be sure to NOT save correspondence. Do not keep a coherent thread in our email replies and if at all possible stop putting your name in the correpondences for this application.
Now. Trust me, this is only page one of your full counter-file. You can clearly see that your efforts do nothing to support your case and everything to deny it.

Please--for god's sake--just give up already! We don't want you. We don't like you. We definitely don't want you on our domain space!

Sincerely,
Team IEDR

Still Waiting

I would be saddened by a reply like that above. It would also give me closure and I promise if you send me this letter, I will move on. I will.

After all, Siegel.cn sounds so much cooler!

Transparency creates governance conflict at the IEDR

2010-01-15T01:54:00.000-08:00

The IE Domain Registry (IEDR) runs at a loss. Its morality has been questioned. They are accused of false advertising, being a domain-wide spammer, incompetent leadership and cronieism.

Michele Neylon summarises the IEDR's operational practices:

Since the "awarding" of a domain name relies almost entirely on the registry's staff subjective interpretation of the policies the end result is that prospective registrants and registrars are constantly locked in an unending game of "Russian roulette", though in many respects it's even worse, as you don't know how many chambers have been loaded.

Does this echo my experience?

As I wrote my last post I took a moment to resubmit a domain registration for Siegel.ie as a Category #6 Publication Name. Here's how my conversation went:

OK--so why the focus on transparency?

Right--transparency is what we expect from well run organizations. It leads to efficient interactions and holds all parties accountable. It is also a cornerstone of the internet.

Did you know that you, by yourself, can change the "Internet"? I don't mean some airy-fairy notion. I mean change the Internet like--make some new way of publishing information--like RSS. In fact, someone very much like you did change the Internet. They created something called RFC 5005 which is modern RSS.

RFC means "Request For Comment." Today there are 5098 RFCs. They cover all facets of Internet operation, from that http:// we use in our website URLs (RFC 1945) to the order of electronic signals we send through our network cables (RFC 2).

These RFC's started in 1969 as notes. They weren't even on a computer--who had a computer in 1969! RFC 7 was handwritten and is only partially recorded. The RFC was to be an idea or vision for what the Internet might be (at that time it was just the Arpa Network). Once created, an RFC followed the process of scientific debate and public vetting.

The RFC authors would share their RFCs at meetings and eventually on the internet itself. They were made for real feedback from other contributors--regardless of rank, degrees or any other posturing.

Fast forward 40 years. The ICANN gives the government of Ireland access to its root host servers--the section of the Internet phonebook that ends in ".ie". Ireland gives a no-compete contract to manage those phonebook entries to IEDR. They state their intention to:

"Promote the registration and continued use of .ie domains" and "the Best Practice Principles of IANA, ICANN and CENTR."

The ICANN being a body founded with the ethos of transparency states:

"ICANN and its constituent bodies shall operate to the maximum extent feasible in an open and transparent manner and consistent with procedures designed to ensure fairness."

By, for example:

"Making decisions by applying documented policies neutrally and objectively, with integrity and fairness."

Right--so IEDR has a stated mission to be like the Internet elite. But the Internet elite don't act like "the elite." They are transparent and open and reasonable and welcoming of criticism. They represent the optimism, rationality and fairness we enjoy in our lives.

And then the IEDR takes a step backwards while trying to move forward. They move towards subjective, unarticulated and unaccountable methods which do not belong to the Internet elite. Instead, they move outside the circle of influencers and those that are praised.

And this creates a governance conflict.

Even the governing members stand in conflict.

If you can drown in 30 mm of water, the reputation of the IEDR--and unfortunately Ireland's perceived technical competance on the Internet--is under a few meters. Oh--it's raining too.

Is the IEDR making an effort to thwart Jewish names as domains?

2010-01-14T16:53:00.000-08:00

Seriously. Now that I'm in Ireland I want Siegel.ie. I don't mean to scare you with my name--I'm not religious!

I applied for Siegel.ie at LetsHost.ie--I don't recommend them--they've tried harder to stand in my way than to respond or assist--or even follow the rules. Ireland isn't like the US and .com domains. To get a .ie domain, you need to fall into one of 11 categories specified in the application process for the domain. But in reality it means having the secret handshake--or possibly being related to Lothar or whomever watches the IEDR inbound requests.

Why?

I've been denied the ability to apply for the domain four times. Three times by LetsHost and once by the IEDR (we'll get to them on the next post). Surely this must mean that they are strict! And all about ensuring quality, right?

Check out phone.ie:

It's Category 4, Registered Business Name. No offense to Phone.ie, but isn't that a domain park page that we eschew in the web sphere?

Well then, maybe they are strict to the letter of the rule, but not worried about quality. Then surely they'll keep everyone to the Categories 1-10 rather than the ambiguous Category 11. The "Discretionary Name" category, right?

Let's see:

The domain register mentioned above, LetsTalk.ie--their company is Digital Media Internet Services Ltd--so how'd they get the LetsTalk.ie name?

WOAH! It's a Discretionary Name.

What about DomainRegistry.ie--the alter ego of the IEDR?

HEY NOW! It's a Discretionary Name!

Come on--you got blocked by your own Category 1-10? And had to use sneaky #11? Why didn't you tell me! I'll do #11 too. In fact... one... more... ah, great! I just submitted to you a #11. Well, I submitted to you a #6 "Publication Name" with the required docs. We've already corresponded and you claimed that I did not have a long standing blog. Do you want to change your mind on that? This blog has been around for 5 years--as many years as you have published annual reports on your site.

I'm assuming you don't want to change your mind (I like to be stubborn too), so why don't you sneak me into #11 the same way you snuck yourself in?

Here's a few more discretionary:

- Talk.ie

- Budd.ie

- Drive.ie

- Hosts.ie

Hmm... it's hard to find domains that aren't discretionary.

So Lothar--if you are reading this--please, please treat me like you would yourself. Gimme my Siegel.ie. I ticked the boxes. And if you want to kick out my Category #6--I don't mind. Just pass me under Category #11.

And thank you for the prod to blog!

Congrats RightSignature...

2009-10-11T14:04:00.000-07:00

Winner of VentureNet 2009

RightSignature's document signing service was selected from a fantastic list of companies by an expert team of successful Southern California investors. It's great validation to the team and CEO Daryl Bernstein's efforts. Looking forward to what comes next.

And yes--that's the second Right* company to win the show.

Cooking Favorite...

2009-08-27T19:17:00.001-07:00

I'm quite certain that I am exceeding Ireland's per-city allowed spice threshold by making my favorite dish--Chana Masala. In fact I'm now relying my new dala (this dala, not that one):

Shown here cooking the masala:

And with the chana thickening oh-so-good:

Thank you again to VahChef for upping my game.

Dabble cooking Indian? Meet Vahchef.

2009-08-16T05:57:00.000-07:00

I've been a long-time wannabe Indian cook--I can make a decent Chana Masala, but I had never ventured into breads nor made a dal that could stand on its own. That is until I found Vahchef. Vahchef is an incredible chef from one of India's top restaurants. He covers the little details that make the difference from dry dals and soggy seasonings--to splending dishes and puffy poori's. Here's a taste of his style--making Tomato Dal (this is absolutely delicious and easy to get right):

If you aren't yet inspired by Indian cooking--take a look at Vahchef's face as he tastes his dishes. He's the only cook that makes me laugh (he really loves his food) and cry (wish I could eat what's he's just made too!). More on Vahchef's Youtube channel:

Irish Blasphemy Laws -- bad news for me!

2009-07-09T18:53:00.001-07:00

Growing up culturally Jewish and marrying an Irish Catholic gives an interesting stew of religious backgrounds to bring up children with. Seeing two religions so opposed on basic literal interpretations of rewritten and poorly translated secondary source documents helps clear the belief in any gods fairly thoroughly. We spend a good deal of time in Ireland and I generally feel welcome even in religiously influenced secular events like Weddings and whatnot (haven't had a wave of confirmations hit the kids' friends yet).

My personal beliefs or lack thereof have been pleasantly my own until the local atheists group pointed out that there was a seemingly archaic revival of the enforcement blasphemy laws (which have lingered in the constitution here) being proposed. Coming from a relatively religiously-free US background (besides "under god" littered on money and the school pledge--at least since the 50's) it didn't register that these might actually come to pass.

Today, they did.

As The Guardian put it:

So Irish law has now enshrined the notion that the taking of offence is more important than free expression. If something might cause a motivated group to be "outraged", rather than, say, cause them to live in fear, then it is illegal, with a fine of up to €25,000 payable.

Note the ease with which a prosecution could be brought, and the punitive nature of the fine: this is not legislation that simply serves to tie up a few loose ends.

To put my hat into the ring, I'll gladly admit my beliefs--I find morality in building a world my kids would like to live in. It's a great compass and deity free.

Great Organic Food, Order Online, Delivered in Ireland

2009-06-29T07:57:00.000-07:00

Our local organic supermarket has recently launched a beautiful website and delivery service throughout Ireland. They offer a great selection--although no refrigerated goods delivered yet--and the online ordering/delivery experience is far better than that of Tesco and Superquinn. If you eat organic, live in Ireland and can't get organic product locally--you will enjoy this find.

TechCrunch: Make Your Mark: RightSignature Lets You Sign Documents Online (Or On Your iPhone)

2009-06-01T03:35:00.000-07:00

RightSignature featured on TechCrunch this weekend. Great--and well earned--exposure for the team. w00t!.

[Found!] Blogger.com OS X Client

2009-01-07T05:46:00.000-08:00

I'd have thought I was in a larger crowd, using my Mac to blog on Blogger.com. It took me quite a while to find an OS X client. Finally did, called Ecto. Note that you need to make one quick fix otherwise you'll pull your hair out over spacing issues. Log into Blogger.com. Go to Settings => Formatting and turn off Convert Line Breaks.

Thanks to this forum post for the hint.

Note--I gave a good run at the vim-blogger integration, but couldn't get it running. If anyone does, I'd still love a vim-based solution.

In the meantime, I'm a happy Ecto customer. Much better than trying to manage posts always online and always by the web.

2009 Predictions...

2008-12-31T17:58:00.001-08:00

Just in time for the New Year!

Economy: Credit cards are next go!
Asia: China finds an internal buyer for their goods. Ends year with + growth.
Politics: US isn't out of its two wars in 2009. We _do_ have a trial or two for past leaders.
News: Supermodels in trouble fade from coverage.
Ads: CPM inventory goes surplus. CPC down.
Business: Smaller is better. Also--Apple wins on iPhone, but loses on its retail presences.
Food: Che' Moi becomes a great place to go. We learn to cook.
Tech: Web 2.0 officially boiled over. At the same time the real seeds of 3.0 are being advanced by teams of not-finding-contract-work coding ninjas.

Even with my less-than-hopeful predictions, I believe the down economy will bring us all a bit closer--and certainly we'll be appreciating the things we had all along--and didn't cost a thing--our friends and family. Hope you and yours have a wonderful 2009!

Beijing and a glimpse of China

2008-12-28T05:15:00.000-08:00

Imagine a dark smoky lounge, lit by red LEDs in aluminum wall panels, a stage act finishes and white screen lowers. Huge monitors and a projector fill the room with P!nk’s classic. No I’m not Rickrolling you — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTlWqW6fSYc . Yes, an East meets West (or vice-a-versa) evening out in Beijing. But I’ve jumped ahead.

Wednesday morning I have the school holiday play for my oldest at 10am and my flight to Beijing is at 11:30am—so I was planning on a close cut. Tuesday night I get caught up through the night on US/EU work and ready for a taxi pickup at 8:30am. Head to the embassy and get the visa—w00t! And back home (the school is literally 50 yards from our house) and to the school. Ears delighted by versus of “Kluggy nee, kluggy nee geirscham San Niklaus” and other favorites (did I mention it’s an all-Irish [gaelic] school?).

Ten minutes of insane cuteness and I’m heading back to the taxi and towards the airport. I turn on my audiobook magic—Twilight New Moon—and woah! I’m at the airport with minutes to spare. Rush through security (no checked bags and prechecked in). On the way to the gate pickup an expensive whiskey gift for our potential client and chocolates for Yuanyi and our translator. In the waiting area New Moon back on, brain shuts off and bam last call for Siegel please come to the gate. Heh—I’m here! On the plane and my sardine-class window seat. New Moon does its thing and I’m awake in Frankfurt.

(Dublin’s security squeeze, a classic all-cloudy Irish day, my sleep-deprived lilted eye “look”, and Frankfurt)

Frankfurt is the cleanest airport I’ve been in next to Munich and Zurich. So big the employees bike from one end to the other. A half hour’s walk takes me to the little Chinatown wing of the airport. The number of westerners is nearing zero. Grab a bretzel and my last western salad for the week. Boarding! This time a big plane.

Same game for me. Earbuds in and brain off. A quick wake to get water and notice the—what’s that—frozen Gobi desert? Whatever it is it’s going on forever.

OK—enough of the plane. Arrive in Beijing airport and notice some pair programming—err—immigration form unison reviewing. Yes it’s a theme.

And that box there? That little box has some buttons. Take a look:

I don’t know how many international travelers have enough hutzpah to arrive in China and press anything but “Greatly Satisfied.” I did. OK. Finally. China!

Hard to get bearings on China. Beijing is a city of 30 million and just went through a massive cleanup to prep for the Olympics. The locals say all the modern buildings (like those above) were built in the last 5 years, but as a visitor all I seem to see are the modern buildings. Maybe I’m on the Disney-fied path through the city showing all modern and clean and hiding the underbelly?
Next—to Swissötel. Note triple-checkin-pairing. FTW.

Now, in Japan I had my first taste of true conglomerates. Companies like Sony that own an entire ecosystem—from the electronic know-how making the Walkman™ to the production teams producing the content. Or Daimaru department stores constructed by Hitachi equipment (a sister company). Using Hitachi automatic doors and Hitachi elevators. And the other department stores—like Takashimaya—running their own sister company infrastructure. Elevators and credit card financing by Mitsubishi (the elevator company) and Mitsubishi (the bank).

China gave me a healthy serving of this master-allied-planning. New shiny buildings orchestrated together on tight timeframes. Huge well-built subways (from the surface at least) everywhere I wanted to go. Everything was made in China. Not just the stuff I expected to be made in China, I mean everything—cameras and phone handsets (no US brands necessary!)—LCD monitors (no Dell needed!)—ATMs (and awful usability guidelines from a good decade past)—even the cars (Hyundai logos, but built in China).

Basically—it was swap “China’s Longterm National Interests” for “individual competing business interests.” Or at least to me, in my brief time to absorb China’s movement.

What’s the strategy? China’s population is over 1.2bn. The Country’s power appears to consolidate such that one person, currently Mr. Hu, is able to make a large number of strategic decisions reflected across the entire Country. For those interested, here’s a helpful diagram (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_political_system.jpg). The Chinese also love and trust their government. Those I met did and statistics appear to agree. 97% of the Chinese people trust their government vs 37.3% in the US. And something unexpected to me—83% of Chinese think their Country is run for the people vs 36.7% in the US. (Stats from Robert Shiller of “Irrational Exuberance” fame).

They are incessant savers. Statistics say greater than 30% of gross earnings is saved (at personal and national level) compared to our negative savings rate. When I asked what my small sample group would do with being gifted a day’s earnings? “Save it.” How about a month’s earnings—wanna buy something? “Nope.” A year’s earnings? Still no takers. Definitely a different twist to what I expected from my Western mindset (buy a new Macbook Pro anyone? just me?).

By having a culture of saving, China is cash rich. This is entirely intentional. China has been using years of US trade surplus to raise the standard of living for large portions of China. This was encouraged by policy—linking the Yuan to the dollar meant that no matter how much USD went to Asia, we’d never feel an increase in pricing. And China didn’t mind—a decade or two of leveraging their massive work-ready population means they have been steadily and steadily getting stronger in the purse.

The mandate now appears to be—“go up the foodchain” for every business vertical and deliver everything in China, by Chinese companies (see Li Ning below). This means taking a hit on quality, performance and usability to learn by doing—and owning the know-how. This isn’t just in the approach to cars, buildings and electronics—they are saying “No” to Oracle DBs and AppServers and looking at what open or adoptable replacements they can own within their bounds. BTW, the logical extension here—if this is pulled off—is that China becomes incredibly self-sufficient, has a huge personal and country surplus.

Amazingly—I remember the late 80s and the Japanese “invasion” buying up our baseball teams to chunks of Manhattan based on a super-powerful Yen. At the time, I was a sushi fan and liked Japanese gameshows (and their focus on education). Hey—having Japan invested in the US might help us more than it hurts! I just hoped they didn’t want a refund after they got a case of buyer’s remorse. As it turns out, Japan’s taking over the US didn’t pan out (Japan had it’s own housing-financing-banking-bubble that is still clearing). Maybe China will have to watch for the same thing. Nobody ever expects the Spanish Inquisition?

If nothing does come by surprise, and they continue a steady and calculated path forward, they will arrive as an organized and educated global power. Their population will have a reasonable standard of living possibly greater than many Westerners (is it just me seeing those “feed an American” banner ads?). They will be able to decide whether they want to continue to provide producer capacity to foreign brands—or instead their own (they really do make everything I’m wearing, my computer, my desk, …). And we all can be encouraged to look at the value of being a Westerner.

When opportunity and education are leveled I see a more connected world—and a globally leveled standard of living. Maybe “The World is Flat” run backwards—its supposition that communication and distribution systems have allowed the West to export our economy to developing nations also meant that developing nations have sent back to us their standard of living.

But I digress…

I’ve checked in and wanted to freshen up with a haircut. The hotel stylist was happy to oblige, no English spoken!

The haircut was so bad (I’ve got proof) I tried to take a photo in process—but I wasn’t subtle enough to make it happen. Here’s my fresh China haircut:

No that’s not wind. That’s the style!

OK. Day one still and when in Rome, do as the Romans do! I’m a 2-decade vegetarian with adventure at heart. In Beijing (aka Peking), I was going to have Peking duck.

And phew. That’s a lot of duck. Greasy, greasy, gamey duck! Good. But a lot of duck! In fact we had the 431,817-th duck served at that location. w00t!

Then a little street market where being white means “I’m ready to pay 10-20 times what anyone from China would actually pay for this stuff.”

Then a real win. In one of the big downtown shopping plazas, there’s two Nike stores and then this amazing store called Li-Ning. It’s awesome. Great athletic wear. Incredible quality. Cheap! And a beautiful location. It’s all Chinese too! And this guy? He’s welcoming me to take my pictures outside.

Why’s Li-Ning interesting to me? Because it’s the next step of our modern global commerce pipeline for China to own. Today:

1. Nike sponsors athletes, places ads, you want to buy NIKE.

2. Nike finds the lowest cost-effective place to build NIKE products, thereby maximizing gross margins—say 95%+ in shoes.

3. Producer-Country locked into production-role since branding and marketing talent not evolved within their borders.

China is at the next step:

1. Li-Ning sponsors athletes (China’s 1990 Olympic Gymnast is… Li Ning!)—providing all the Beijing olympics athletic wear and reaching abroad sponsoring Spanish and Swedish athletic teams. If you are in China. You prefer Li Ning over Nike or Adidas.

2. Li-Ning has its own cost-effective production and would thrive in the huge margins set by foreign-weighted pricing. Even at China-friendly pricing, the quality is amazing and the styles are fresh and compelling. Note that little things like the YKK (Japanese brand) zipper (look at your US-branded apparel and you’ll see YKK on anything over $100)—are replaced by KCC. Beautiful quality and my money’s on it being another Chinese company.

3. Now Producer-Country benefits from all the margin. They benefit from decreased costs for their management, sales and marketing. They benefit from making a profit in a weak currency (the Yuan)—which means any sales outside of China will be redefining to the world’s other brands locked in the old model.

Why don’t I think I’d say the same thing 10 years ago? Mainly because we’ve had Chinese brands before and in my mind they have been associated with poor design, drab (someone I met said China had 3 colors for all clothes in their childhood), not well branded and in the end their apparent value was low enough that we’d buy our known and marketed-to-us brands instead. Not anymore. I love my Li Ning. Note btw, that this is Li Ning’s logo (it makes a nice swoosh on the side of a shoe):

Flipping a few slides. There are birds in cages. Like dozens of them in the small strip of road between the Swissötel and the neighbor building. Dunno.

Then a bit of work stuff… off to bed—and up for a bit of sightseeing. Tieneman Square with my coworker and translator:

The Forbidden City (one of 9 “gates”). Think The Golden Child:

Then to some lunch, where I put aside delicacies like “Man and Wife Lung Slice” and “Bittern Duck Tongue” for some tofu and vegies:

And then dinner is upon us. My host gets word I’m a veg and books a buddhist vegie only restaurant. I—uhh—ask for a beer (no alcohol). It was very stylish. That’s the parking attendant. Tarp to enter (did I mention Beijing was COLD!).

Had a great dinner!

I’ve learned—China need be on our radar if it can be. Pressures may be so large or internal that we won’t get the time of day. But then again—looking at where China is at in their development, we can do some really cool things. For instance. Baidu—the Chinese eBay? Not that far of an implementation from eBay! Zhanzuo.com? China’s Facebook clone with 7mn users? There are huge open markets in China that are absolutely unaddressed. They have a growing “chuppie” class (I didn’t make that up!) that’s going to be as large as the entire US population in the next decade. From SaaS to platforms to networks, there’s huge end-user value to bring to the market and I’ve become intrigued by opportunities to leverage what we do into a fast-moving internet Wild West.

*Now—politics here—China isn’t doing everything right for everyone. I can’t say we in the West do either. The people I’ve met in China were heartfelt, warm and well-intending. As China gets a clear voice for the Century they must be able to work through their pains—just as the US will have to work to get through ours. I do believe it to be a fact that the East will be teaching the West for the 21st century. It cannot do anything but good to establish outreach and open doors to learn and take part of their growth. *

Finally. Work done! We hit the bar. And there we go. UK, US and Russian pop videos blasting away. Absolutely bizarre. We hop bars and there’s a great singer who calls me out as I type away on my iPhone. She says it’s awkward to be in a foreign country not knowing what people are saying, so here’s a song you’ll understand. Norah Jones! Hah—she belts out Norah Jones. Too funny.

One more hop to the last bar (we’re lightweights one beer each bar!)—and there’s a duo of Chinese men next to us. RATTLE RATTLE SMACK! We look over and they flash 5-3 and 4-4 with their fingers. They’ve got cups of dice and are getting deeper in loss into a big bottle of Chivas Regal Scotch. OK. Time for bed and an early flight home!

Bye Beijing Airport!

Bye pairing dudes!

Ahh! That last row of the 747-400. Seat 41. No reclining. Oh boy! Just 9 hours. Did I mention it was freezing?

[Solved] Google Apps naked domains and GoDaddy

2008-12-10T04:08:00.000-08:00

If you're using Google Apps, you may have seen a toggle between enabling current and advanced Google Apps features. There's another one to give prerelease features. Depending on when you signed up and how these were toggled, you may have been able to add one of the apps (or appspot) to your naked domain (hostname.com). This changes for later signups and when toggling the settings. The new recommendation is to not map anything to the naked domain, and instead put a forward from your domain company. If you're using GoDadday that requires knowing a secret A record and IP address that is neither intuitive nor obvious, but IS available in this article, which also happens to be my first knol link.

May be useful for Heroku users as well.

Congrats RightScale... deja vu?

2008-12-08T19:21:00.000-08:00

Seems like I'm repeating myself, but it's true. Congratulations to RightScale!. RightScale.com is Amazon's Premier Management Application for EC2, EBS, S3, and friends. They are an incredible crew of executors and execute they have! In a less-than-friendly investment market, they've just raised another round.

Great work guys! Wishing you a ~~2009~~, ~~2010~~, 2011 to rival this year's incredible progress.

ELC gets a makeover. Pew pew pew...

2008-10-28T21:35:00.000-07:00

Alright--big disclaimer--ELC Technologies is a Ruby on Rails firm. I'm the founder and a proud team member. In fact, I couldn't be prouder than seeing the launch of our new team-focused website. It's from the brains of one of our ultra-talented interaction artists--Cary Dunn.

What's so cool? Besides being a Rails app that leverages our internal CORE codebase, the site adds some whimsy powered by a tongue-twister of cutting-edge technologies. From XMPP to Jabber to Pixel Bender. You never know who you might run into...

[HOWTO]: Trac to Unfuddle migration...

2008-10-26T19:00:00.000-07:00

We're testing a number of project management tools. One of the biggest hurdles in changing toolsets is data migration. For our needs, this means: milestones, tickets, wiki/notebook, SCM (SVN/GIT) and users.

Trac as we're using it includes SVN support. We'll be using GIT with Unfuddle.

Now the steps for migration:

Firstly--you'll need git-svn and Ruby on your machine. If you need help getting here leave a specific comment below.
On the input (migrating FROM) side, you'll need a copy of your trac directory (access to the sqlite3 db powering trac) and the credentials for the source SVN server.
On the target (migrating TO) side, you'll need to have your unfuddle subdomain name, credentials and your git ssh keypair organized. Note: Don't create any Unfuddle projects by hand. One of our helper tools requires a clean slate.
We move the trac info before the repository. The trac migration script is restrictive of being the first to create your project, so we're stuck in this order. Get unfuddle's trac2unfuddle.rb helper script. Crack it open and edit the fields for your target unfuddle project name (remember this should be the info for the project you want to create new, NOT an existing one). You'll also need to have the Trac sqlite file handy and fill in its location in trac2unfuddle.rb.
UPDATE We've seen that non-URL friendly characters get URL-encoded on the filenames produced by Trac, but not consistently for the filenames stored in the the Trac db. To fix, we had to add these lines to the trac2unfuddle.rb file after the similar looking line handling spaces:
```
   path = path.gsub('*', '%2A') unless File.exists?(path)
   path = path.gsub('(', '%28') unless File.exists?(path)
   path = path.gsub(')', '%29') unless File.exists?(path)
```
Run ruby trac2unfuddle.rb and grab a ~~beer~~ ~~TUAW.com~~ rutabaga.
When you return, you'll see an error which should be relatively self-explanatory (you didn't have ruby-sqlite installed and friends) OR you'll now have a fully transitioned set of milestones, tasks, and notebook (the trac wiki). Log into Unfuddle and confirm.
Before you complain--the wiki formatting totally, absolutely sucks. You lose most of the love you put into Trac--even the easy stuff. Somebody please hack a fix to the trac2unfuddle.rb script and send me link to it.

Next up is the repository. You'll need a users.txt to map your svn users (user names) to git users (full names and emails). Read up on it here. You'll want to use the project you just created above to layer the repository onto the project management data in the same project. Log into Unfuddle and navigate to the project you've just created and create a new repository for it using their web interface. Then execute a command set like:

mkdir svn-source-initial
cd svn-source-initial
git-svn init http://the-path-to-the-source-svn-repository/trunk/ --no-metadata
git config svn.authorsfile users.txt
git-svn fetch # Go get another tuber time. Entire SVN history coming to you.
cd ..
git clone svn-source-initial git-cloned-cleanly
cd git-cloned-cleanly
git remote add unfuddle git@subdomain.unfuddle.com:subdomain/projectname.git
git config remote.unfuddle.push refs/heads/master:refs/heads/master
git push unfuddle master

You'll likely get errors at git-svn fetch because you forgot a username or two. Just add them to the users.txt and restart the fetch command. All that's left is logging into Unfuddle and checking the repository tab.
Success! Congratulations--you have finished your migration. Set your SVN/Trac to readonly for a few days then put it up in S3 and on a DVD and savor your migration to the latest trendy toolsets.

[Fixed] ubuntu: sudo gem install sqlite3-ruby gives no rule to make target `ruby.h', needed by `sqlite3_api_wrap.o'

2008-10-26T09:05:00.000-07:00

Fixed with sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev

> sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  sqlite3-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libsqlite3-dev
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 41 not upgraded.
Need to get 237kB of archives.
After unpacking 639kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://mirrors.kernel.org feisty/main libsqlite3-dev 3.3.13-0ubuntu1 [237kB]
Fetched 237kB in 1s (130kB/s)                       
Selecting previously deselected package libsqlite3-dev.
(Reading database ... 18363 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libsqlite3-dev (from .../libsqlite3-dev_3.3.13-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up libsqlite3-dev (3.3.13-0ubuntu1) ...

> sudo gem install sqlite3-ruby
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Successfully installed sqlite3-ruby-1.2.4
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for sqlite3-ruby-1.2.4...
Installing RDoc documentation for sqlite3-ruby-1.2.4...

One thread on the fix--didn't fix it. Suggested sudo apt-get install build-essential

Heroku Migration with ruport gem

2008-10-26T02:58:00.001-07:00

Deploying an existing *and elderly* Rails app to heroku.

After adding the remote git location for our heroku app, we run git push -f heroku and get:

The authenticity of host 'heroku.com (75.101.137.180)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is ...
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes 
Warning: Permanently added 'heroku.com,75.101.137.180' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
Warning: Permanently added '10.252.42.127' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
updating 'refs/heads/master'
  from d07a31b1559243f057f382775e1059cb4e32587c
  to   38f410a1e0d24386f96d4f33ae66d88eb541c311
 Also local refs/remotes/heroku/master
Generating pack...
Done counting 7248 objects.
Deltifying 7248 objects...
 100% (7248/7248) done
Writing 7248 objects...
 100% (7248/7248) done
Total 7248 (delta 3775), reused 7238 (delta 3771)
refs/heads/master: d07a31b1559243f057f382775e1059cb4e32587c -> 38f410a1e0d24386f96d4f33ae66d88eb541c311
HEAD is now at 38f410a... Readying for heroku.
Running migrations...
rake aborted!
no such file to load -- rcov/rcovtask
/mnt/home/userapps/38568/Rakefile:17
(See full trace by running task with --trace)
(in /mnt/home/userapps/38568)
App restarting...
######################################################################## 100.0%
 
Deployed to http://xxx.heroku.com

This issue is being cause by either our customer lib/tasks/coverage.rake task which modifies the default code selection done by RCOV. Or it's the vendor/rails/rails_rcov plugin. Going to Heroku.com => the project => the editor => Vendor/ => Gem/Plugin Manager, we see that rails_rcov is already installed. Oh well, let's remove the lib... doesn't help. And now the plugin... OK--we're on to the next issue (and adding this one to follow-up.)

refs/heads/master: 71ec54fd860c6608f3bad1367e41868753e37276 -> 7aebb29cfb4160624bd8d9a00adb8457dd35dcd1
HEAD is now at 7aebb29... Moved rcov task to see if heroku will run now.
Running migrations...
Your config/boot.rb is outdated: Run "rake rails:update".
(in /mnt/home/userapps/38568)

This time we get a notice about our aged Rails version scripts. These are updated with rake rails:update and we're on to the next err:

rake aborted!
no such file to load -- ruport

(See full trace by running task with --trace)

Again--check the Plugins/Gem section and... woah! The interface wants a URL, not the name of our gem. Looking at the Ruport gem website isn't immediately encouraging. Let's freeze the ruport gem into our project vendor directory. First edited config/environment.rb and made sure config.gem 'ruport' was existing and uncommented. Then running rake gems:unpack creates the ruport files in vendor/gems. Now another deploy and we're live!

Heroku database.yml and no such file to load -- sqlite3

2008-10-12T05:49:00.000-07:00

Heroku has a little gotcha when running Rails frozen into vendor/rails. See the thread for more details. The summary is, don't do it, it's not supported.

The slightly longer answer is that Heroku loads a customized version of Rails to support their special features. This means that you must reference a version they have installed and never, ever freeze rails (you know--in vendor/rails). Currently, Heroku support 2.0.x and Rails 2.1, but can't run other versions such as edge or Rails 2.1.1. :-)

The gotcha is that instead of an error saying you've frozen Rails--don't do it! you get a number of seemingly odd errors centered around database.yml. Now Heroku generally ignores your config/database.yml file completely and deploys internally on PostgreSQL. But, in this error state, Heroku appears to be trying to run your committed database.yml file (or complain if none exists). Moreover, referencing a mysql database gives you a no socket error. Below find the full text of the stack dump for future searchers.

MissingSourceFile in DashboardsController#index

no such file to load -- sqlite3
RAILS_ROOT: /mnt/home/userapps/xxx

Application Trace | Framework Trace | Full Trace
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require'
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require'
vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:148:in `require'
vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:507:in `new_constants_in'
vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:148:in `require'
vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/kernel/requires.rb:7:in `require_library_or_gem'
vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/kernel/reporting.rb:11:in `silence_warnings'
vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/kernel/requires.rb:5:in `require_library_or_gem'
vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/sqlite3_adapter.rb:10:in `sqlite3_connection'
vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:215:in `send'
vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:215:in `new_connection'
vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:237:in `checkout_new_connection'
vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:180:in `checkout'
vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:176:in `loop'
vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:176:in `checkout'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:238:in `synchronize'
vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:175:in `checkout'
vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:90:in `connection'
vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:321:in `retrieve_connection'
vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:121:in `retrieve_connection'
vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:113:in `connection'
vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/query_cache.rb:8:in `cache'
vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/caching/sql_cache.rb:12:in `perform_action'
vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:533:in `send'
vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:533:in `process_without_filters'
vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:606:in `process_without_session_management_support'
vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/session_management.rb:134:in `process'
vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:401:in `process'
vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:179:in `handle_request'
vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:107:in `dispatch_unlocked'
vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:120:in `dispatch'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/thread.rb:135:in `synchronize'
vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:119:in `dispatch'
vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:129:in `dispatch_cgi'
vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:36:in `dispatch'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thin-0.8.2/lib/rack/adapter/rails.rb:54:in `serve_rails'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thin-0.8.2/lib/rack/adapter/rails.rb:74:in `call'
/home/heroku_rack/lib/toolbar.rb:16:in `call'
/usr/bin/thin:19:in `load'
/usr/bin/thin:19
This error occurred while loading the following files:
   sqlite3
Request

Parameters:

None
Show session dump

Response

Headers:

{"cookie"=>[],
 "Content-Type"=>"",
 "Cache-Control"=>"no-cache"}

GData Python API woes continue...

2008-09-28T07:27:00.000-07:00

Unfortunately, using the GData API is starting to feel like being in a boat so hastily constructed, that every time you patch one leak, you need to run right to the next one. Today's issue either happened on Google's end or as a consequence of the recent 1.2.1 GData update.

My issue is similar enough to one on the mailing list, that I posted it there. The basic issue is that the gd_client.InsertRow() call works like a charm if your app happens to have a logged in Google-sign-in user. If not it fails in an absolutely unhelpful 404-Not Found (full text below). Moreover--Google's initial response seems to say that this change (requiring a logged in user) was intentional... but clearly breaks any app that relies on stored authsub tokens (up to this point a completely valid and encouraged method).

My hope is that this spate of issues is a short-term anomaly, as we can't afford this level of attention moving forward. I know Google has some good people like Jeff Scudder working on the project. I hope they give him enough team support and/or time to communicate to us early adopters. Specifically, if you are breaking the API expectations, tell us--rather than slipping the change in a 1.2.0=>1.2.1 update which was critical to fix other issues. Hrmph!

For the time being we're going to have to remove the GData code from our app, as we can't afford the downtime even on our relatively vanity app. Looking forward to Google's response.

Environment:Request Method: POSTRequest URL: http://localhost:8081/l/agpyaWdodHJlcGx5chELEgtMYW5kaW5nUGFnZRgCDA/widget.htmlDjango Version: 1.0-beta_2-SVN-unknownPython Version: 2.5.1Installed Applications:('myapp', 'appengine_django', 'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.sessions')Installed Middleware:('django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware', 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware', 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware', 'utils.auth.Auth')Traceback:File "/Users/.../google-app-engine/rightreply/django/core/handlers/base.py" in get_response  86.                 response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)File "/Users/.../google-app-engine/rightreply/myapp/landing_pages/views.py" in widget_html  62.       lead.save()File "/Users/.../google-app-engine/rightreply/myapp/models.py" in save  217.     self.submit_to_google_docs()File "/Users/.../google-app-engine/rightreply/myapp/models.py" in submit_to_google_docs  253.     entry = gd_client.InsertRow(dict, self.landing_page.spreadsheet_id, self.landing_page.worksheet_id)File "/Users/.../google-app-engine/rightreply/gdata/spreadsheet/service.py" in InsertRow  325.         converter=gdata.spreadsheet.SpreadsheetsListFromString)File "/Users/.../google-app-engine/rightreply/gdata/service.py" in Post  831.         media_source=media_source, converter=converter)File "/Users/.../google-app-engine/rightreply/gdata/service.py" in PostOrPut  951.           'reason': server_response.reason, 'body': result_body}Exception Type: RequestError at /l/agpyaWdodHJlcGx5chELEgtMYW5kaW5nUGFnZRgCDA/widget.htmlException Value: {'status': 404, 'body': '<HTML>\n<HEAD>\n<TITLE>Not Found</TITLE>\n</HEAD>\n<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000">\n<H1>Not Found</H1>\n<H2>Error 404</H2>\n</BODY>\n</HTML>\n', 'reason': ''}

GData and DJango's HttpResponse Clashing -- 'unicode' object has no attribute 'content'

2008-09-26T03:31:00.000-07:00

GAE's GData API appears to be going through some rapid flux and our app is taking its punches. The changes are exposing some deeper issues which we've just tackled. Here's a doozy:

views.py
from django.http import HttpResponse
from myapp.models import *
...
  return HttpResponse("...")

models.py
from gdata.alt.appengine import *  # For new GData API calls
...

The above code listing illustrates our approach to patching the new GData APIs into our model calls. We didn't realize that we were also introducing the error below. Why? Because HttpResponse is defined in both django.http AND gdata.alt.appengine. This causes import-line-ordering-sensitivities.

The solution—even for a newbie python coder—is easy. You can reorder imports in the view to make sure the LAST imported namespace is the one you want. You can restrict the import to gdata.alt.* and then reference appengine.HttpResponse, etc as needed.

This error text is particular unhelpful and the error path unrelated to the root cause. Hopefully this will match others hitting the same problem.

AttributeError at /l/agpyaWdod...RgCDA/widget.js
'unicode' object has no attribute 'content'
Request Method: GET
Request URL: http://l.../l/agpyaW...CDA/widget.js
Exception Type: AttributeError
Exception Value: 
'unicode' object has no attribute 'content'
Exception Location: /.../gdata/alt/appengine.py in __init__, line 145
Python Executable: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python
Python Version: 2.5.1
Python Path: ['/.../rightreply', '/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine', '/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/lib/django', '/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/lib/webob', '/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/lib/yaml/lib', '/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine', '/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python25.zip', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/plat-darwin', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/plat-mac', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/lib-tk', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload', '/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python/PyObjC']
Server time: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:42:39 +0000

Note: This also had variants with the error of "'str' object has no attribute 'content'."

global name '_AppEngineHttpClient__ConvertDataPart'

2008-09-19T08:07:00.000-07:00

Ugly! Google's spreadsheet API's had some recent hiccups and I was hoping to keep it as an integral part of a funnel system we use internally. If this bites anyone else, follow the directions and download the GData API Python Client 1.2.1. The previous rev 1.2.0 causes this issue.

[FIXED!] GData 1.2.0 and no module named alt.appengine

2008-09-12T17:46:00.000-07:00

Just read Jeff Scudder's comment on my recent UpgradeSessionToken post. He pointed out that there is a newer gdata API which externally appears to be a minor change in the API usage. OK. Here goes!

He references the gdata docs which for my app required these changes (consolidated in a diff-like listing):

-import gdata.spreadsheet.service
+import gdata.service
+import gdata.alt.appengine
-gdata.service.http_request_handler = gdata.urlfetch
-gd_client = gdata.spreadsheet.service.SpreadsheetsService()
+gd_client = gdata.service.GDataService()
+gdata.alt.appengine.run_on_appengine(gd_client)

Great! Now we run the app and...

<class 'django.core.exceptions.ViewDoesNotExist'>: Could not import myapp.admin.views. Error was: No module named alt.appengine
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/base/data/home/apps/rightreply/1.73/main.py", line 45, in <module>
    main()
  File "/base/data/home/apps/rightreply/1.73/main.py", line 42, in main
    util.run_wsgi_app(application)
  File "/base/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/util.py", line 76, in run_wsgi_app
    result = application(env, _start_response)
  File "/base/data/home/apps/rightreply/1.73/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py", line 222, in __call__
    response = self.get_response(request)
  File "/base/data/home/apps/rightreply/1.73/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 67, in get_response
    response = middleware_method(request)
  File "/base/data/home/apps/rightreply/1.73/django/middleware/common.py", line 72, in process_request
    urlresolvers.resolve("%s/" % request.path_info)
  File "/base/data/home/apps/rightreply/1.73/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 299, in resolve
    return get_resolver(urlconf).resolve(path)
  File "/base/data/home/apps/rightreply/1.73/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 240, in resolve
    sub_match = pattern.resolve(new_path)
  File "/base/data/home/apps/rightreply/1.73/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 179, in resolve
    return self.callback, args, kwargs
  File "/base/data/home/apps/rightreply/1.73/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 188, in _get_callback
    raise ViewDoesNotExist, "Could not import %s. Error was: %s" % (mod_name, str(e))
<class 'django.core.exceptions.ViewDoesNotExist'>: Could not import myapp.admin.views. Error was: No module named alt.appengine

Realized the article referenced an updated codebase released two days ago. The code affects the gdata and atom packages/directories. I'm not sure whether I downloaded the client code previously, or if it was created by google's app creation helper, but I had aging copies of the library in my project locally. So, I downloaded the updates and replaced the files:

jonathan$ wget http://gdata-python-client.googlecode.com/files/gdata.py-1.2.0.tar.gz
--2008-09-13 01:51:13--  http://gdata-python-client.googlecode.com/files/gdata.py-1.2.0.tar.gz
Resolving gdata-python-client.googlecode.com... 74.125.47.82
Connecting to gdata-python-client.googlecode.com|74.125.47.82|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 451038 (440K) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `gdata.py-1.2.0.tar.gz'

100%[=============================================================================================>] 451,038     92.5K/s   in 4.8s  

2008-09-13 01:51:20 (92.5 KB/s) - `gdata.py-1.2.0.tar.gz' saved [451038/451038]

jonathan$ tar xvzf gdata.py-1.2.0.tar.gz
gdata.py-1.2.0/
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/atom.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/atom.http_interface.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/atom.mock_http.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/atom.mock_service.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/atom.service.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/atom.token_store.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/atom.url.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/gdata.alt.appengine.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/gdata.apps.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/gdata.apps.service.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/gdata.auth.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/gdata.base.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/gdata.base.service.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/gdata.blogger.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/gdata.blogger.service.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/gdata.calendar.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/gdata.calendar.service.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/gdata.client.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/gdata.codesearch.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/gdata.codesearch.service.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/gdata.contacts.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/gdata.contacts.service.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/gdata.docs.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/gdata.docs.service.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/gdata.exif.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/gdata.geo.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/gdata.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/gdata.media.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/gdata.photos.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/gdata.photos.service.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/gdata.service.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/gdata.spreadsheet.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/gdata.spreadsheet.service.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/gdata.spreadsheet.text_db.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/gdata.urlfetch.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/gdata.youtube.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/gdata.youtube.service.html
gdata.py-1.2.0/pydocs/generate_docs
gdata.py-1.2.0/samples/
gdata.py-1.2.0/samples/base/
gdata.py-1.2.0/samples/base/baseQueryExample.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/samples/base/dryRunInsert.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/samples/blogger/
gdata.py-1.2.0/samples/blogger/BloggerExample.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/samples/calendar/
gdata.py-1.2.0/samples/calendar/calendarExample.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/samples/contacts/
gdata.py-1.2.0/samples/contacts/contacts_example.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/samples/docs/
gdata.py-1.2.0/samples/docs/docs_example.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/samples/mashups/
gdata.py-1.2.0/samples/mashups/birthdaySample.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/samples/spreadsheets/
gdata.py-1.2.0/samples/spreadsheets/spreadsheetExample.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/atom/
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/atom/__init__.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/atom/http.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/atom/http_interface.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/atom/mock_http.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/atom/mock_service.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/atom/service.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/atom/token_store.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/atom/url.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/alt/
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/alt/__init__.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/alt/appengine.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/apps/
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/apps/__init__.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/apps/service.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/base/
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/base/__init__.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/base/service.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/blogger/
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/blogger/__init__.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/blogger/service.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/calendar/
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/calendar/__init__.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/calendar/service.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/codesearch/
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/codesearch/__init__.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/codesearch/service.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/contacts/
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/contacts/__init__.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/contacts/service.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/docs/
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/docs/__init__.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/docs/service.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/exif/
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/exif/__init__.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/geo/
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/geo/__init__.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/media/
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/media/__init__.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/photos/
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/photos/__init__.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/photos/service.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/spreadsheet/
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/spreadsheet/__init__.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/spreadsheet/service.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/spreadsheet/text_db.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/youtube/
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/youtube/__init__.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/youtube/service.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/__init__.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/auth.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/client.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/service.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/test_data.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata/urlfetch.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/atom_tests/
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/atom_tests/__init__.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/atom_tests/http_interface_test.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/atom_tests/mock_http_test.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/atom_tests/mock_server_test.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/atom_tests/service_test.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/atom_tests/token_store_test.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/atom_tests/url_test.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/apps/
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/apps/__init__.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/apps/service_test.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/base/
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/base/__init__.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/base/service_test.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/blogger/
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/blogger/__init__.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/blogger/service_test.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/calendar/
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/calendar/__init__.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/calendar/calendar_acl_test.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/calendar/service_test.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/contacts/
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/contacts/__init__.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/contacts/service_test.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/docs/
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/docs/__init__.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/docs/service_test.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/photos/
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/photos/__init__.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/photos/service_test.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/spreadsheet/
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/spreadsheet/__init__.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/spreadsheet/service_test.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/spreadsheet/text_db_test.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/youtube/
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/youtube/__init__.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/youtube/service_test.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/__init__.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/apps_test.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/auth_test.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/base_test.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/blogger_test.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/calendar_test.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/client_online_test.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/client_test.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/codesearch_test.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/contacts_test.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/docs_test.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/photos_test.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/service_test.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/spreadsheet_test.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_tests/youtube_test.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/__init__.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/atom_test.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/gdata_test.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/module_test_runner.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/run_all_tests.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/run_data_tests.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/run_service_tests.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/tests/testimage.jpg
gdata.py-1.2.0/README.txt
gdata.py-1.2.0/RELEASE_NOTES.txt
gdata.py-1.2.0/INSTALL.txt
gdata.py-1.2.0/MANIFEST
gdata.py-1.2.0/setup.py
gdata.py-1.2.0/PKG-INFO

# And finally... replace the local copies with the updated API libs.
jonathan$ cp -r gdata.py-1.2.0/src/gdata gdata.py-1.2.0/src/atom .

Try again and... Resolved! Thanks again for the pointer Jeff

Heroku Rocks!

2008-09-09T15:49:00.000-07:00

In my recent perusal of hosted application hosters (HAH™) such as Google's AppEngine, I've come across Heroku but had not the chance to try it. Problem no more!

The opportunity arose as we transitioned a large server from our ranks. The machine hosted a free thumnail converter the ELC team wrote a while back. It is now in running well and in maintenance mode. I decided to give Heroku a try as an alternative hosting setup.

The site was in SVN, so the steps roughly were:

# Remove the .svn directories:
find . -name ".svn" -exec rm -rf \{\} \;
# Import into git follow from... http://heroku.com/docs/api/
git init
git add .
git commit -m "init"
heroku create elc-thumbnails-deploy
git remote add heroku git@heroku.com: elc-thumbnails-deploy.git
git push -f heroku

This alone was 95% of the work. The next steps polished things off--added two gems to the deploy that were not in the heroku list... agh! Just searching I realize I missed a beautiful part of the Heroku system--their gems and plugins manager. Anyway--finally, I created a config/heroku.yml file to remove the branding from the application. Along the way I had the pleasure of interacting with the Heroku team. I think they've got great prospects ahead and I look forward to seeing their growth as they come out of beta.

UpgradeToSessionToken Errors (no attribute 'socket') on AppEngine

2008-09-01T02:51:00.000-07:00

Following the Google AppEngine AuthSub docs I get this error:

AttributeError at /admin/
'module' object has no attribute 'socket'
Request Method: GET
Request URL: http://www.host.com/admin/
Exception Type: AttributeError
Exception Value: 
'module' object has no attribute 'socket'
Exception Location: /base/python_dist/lib/python2.5/httplib.py in connect, line 1133
Python Executable: /base/
Python Version: 2.5.2
Python Path: ['/base/python_lib/versions/1', '/base/python_dist/lib/python25.zip', '/base/python_dist/lib/python2.5/', '/base/python_dist/lib/python2.5/plat-linux2', '/base/python_dist/lib/python2.5/lib-tk', '/base/python_dist/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload', '/base/data/home/apps/host/1.44/']
Server time: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 09:51:07 +0000

This happens both on the production deploy and on the local host. The answer is not obvious in a google search, but is found here. Looks like gdata relies on httplib which is replaced by urlfetch on AppEngine. The solution looks like:

import gdata.service
import gdata.urlfetch
# Use urlfetch instead of httplib
gdata.service.http_request_handler = gdata.urlfetch

ActiveRecord's after_save hooks in Django...

2008-08-29T03:32:00.000-07:00

Surprising returns no relevant google results. Here's what I was looking for:

from django.db import models
  class Person(models.Model):
     first_name = models.CharField(max_length=20)
     last_name = models.CharField(max_length=20)
      def __unicode__(self):
         return u"%s %s" % (self.first_name, self.last_name)
      def save(self):
         print "Before save"
         super(Person, self).save() # Call the "real" save() method
         print "After save"
      def delete(self):
         print "Before deletion"
         super(Person, self).delete() # Call the "real" delete() method
         print "After deletion"

Source:

http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/models/save_delete_hooks/

Google Page Creator is on Notice

2008-08-09T04:06:00.000-07:00

Whether Google is a godsend for small and mid-size businesses--or becoming a lumbering behemoth stopping innovation with their strangle-hold on internet eyeballs--is a topic for another post (and tell me if you'd like my take).

I've used Google Apps--the hosted tools from Google that started with "email and calendar for your business" since its beta launch. Over time they have opened more "applications" to Google App users. Recently we rolled out RightSprite.com using Google Page Creator as a stop-gap measure to get a homepage in time for the iTunes launch of our iPhone application Sudoku.MD. It's a bit hacky with a cumbersome UI, but it did the trick to get some basic content up quickly. One particular hackiness is their URL naming scheme. When you create a page you name it and then Google Page Creator comes up with the URL. Fine--so you name things carefully; however, try and copy a page and it gets named the original name plus the number '2'. Not great when optimizing URLs for Google SEO love. So I turned to google to see how to rename a Google Page Creator page.

A quick search for help turned up a tremendous amount of new-to-the-internet gems like: How do I make blinking text on my website? OK--not that bad, but just about. Basic tags, site search, are all well documented, but not what I need--change a publish URL path. If anyone tracks this down, I owe you a big favor--as I still haven't found the solution other than recreating the page as new rather than duplicating...

Along the way I did see a storm of topics covering Google's end of life for the product. People seem to be nostalgically attracted to the product--as Google's been relatively clear that they aren't abandoning the users nor data. See their post copied here:

Hello Google Page Creator Users,

We are no longer accepting new sign-ups for Page Creator because we
have shifted our focus to developing Google Sites. Google Sites offers
many of the capabilities of Page Creator along with new features like
site-level navigation, site-level headers, control over who can see
and edit your site, and rich embeddings like calendars, videos, and
Google docs. Simply put, we think that Google Sites offers a better
experience for creating web pages and websites. Consequently, we will
be shutting down Page Creator later this year.

If you are currently a Page Creator user, you can continue to use Page
Creator and your pages will automatically be transitioned to Google
Sites later this year. We are committed to making this transition as
smooth and easy as possible, and we will post more details as we get
closer to the transition time. You can also manually move your web
pages from Page Creator to Google Sites or other service providers at
any time.

Page Creator has always been a Google Labs project (Labs is our
"technology playground" where we let users test-drive experimental
products and give us feedback so we can innovate more quickly). Since
launching Page Creator in Labs, we've learned a lot and have
incorporated those lessons into Google Sites. We think the Labs
program, which allows users to try new things before they're fully
baked, lets us innovate faster and ultimately create the best possible
products.

We seriously thank each and every one of you who have taken the time
to use, write about, offer suggestions, and become passionate about
Google Page Creator. Sites will be an exciting way to continue and
extend the great things you've been doing; we can't wait for you to
start using the service.

Sincerely,

Mike and the Google Page Creator and Sites Teams

Stalled System Update 10.5.4 at Configuring Installation

2008-08-02T17:05:00.001-07:00

I booted up an older Mac this week and decided to put Leopard on it. For cleanliness sake, I wiped the disk first, then put Leopard on fresh from the DVD. All went well and the System Update ran great for all but the 10.5.4 "Combo" update.

It's a 500+MB download and when finished causes your machine to ready for a restart. Before restarting, the installer comes up and about 5% along the way, at "Configuring Installation," the machine hangs. I left it for a day. Came back, restarted. Tried again and same results.

Then came internet searches: this one and this one told me I wasn't alone but were not clear on a solution. I blitzed my /Library/Updates (sudo rm -rf /Library/Updates) and check for system updates, but had no love.

Then I tried the direct link from apple.com/downloads to the combo installer which did the trick.

I'm generally impressed with Apple's attention to detail and surprised that this is happening in the wild and not better covered. Hopefully this will be a helpful datapoint to anyone else seeing the issue.

Screen on EC2 -- No more PTYs.

2008-06-28T03:27:00.000-07:00

Found solution in this Amazon posting.

Here's the recap:

sudo echo "none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0" >> /etc/fstab sudo mount -a

Before:

> cat /etc/fstab /dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/sda2 /mnt ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 After: > cat /etc/fstab /dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/sda2 /mnt ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0

My first Daddy post...

2008-06-25T10:44:00.001-07:00

Of the titles I've had the privilege of earning Dad is by far the most endearing--and important. It's a subtle change in how I live, but steadily my FOUR boys have overtaken every major activity I reserved for free time. It's only right that they earn space here and I'll sprinkle a few things that have tickled me in the coming posts.

The world is complex and extraordinarily arbitrary to a child. China implements a one-child-per-family policy which we explain to our four year old. Months later I get a slideshow from a male Shanghai coworker on their visit to see their brother. I see it. My wife sees it. The whole company sees it! Nobody thinks anything but great thoughts of the slideshow. My oldest son (of four years) gets to slide 3 and asks, "why's he have a brother?"

Me, "he has a brother just like you have brothers." Him, "but he's Chinese." Me, "yes?" And then I catch up with him. Why did this slideshow of our Chinese coworker have him and his brother in it? Shouldn't one-child-per-family keep him an only child? That's exactly what my son asked.

The question needled me enough that I excused any potential taboo and asked about the family and political dynamics allowing the two-son family. I had thought the brothers were born before the policies, but my coworker explained, "My father had to pay a fine of 1000 YUAN. That's not much in today's dollar, but at the time it was 3 years wages and since he was a government worker it was very tough for us after my brother was born."

The impact here was immediate--empathy for my coworker, his father, and his brother--growing up with a weight on the family of his own birth. And the impact lingers--could I, would I have made the same sacrifices for my second son? And would I still have for the third and fourth?

It's a little question from my son that takes me down a meandering train of thought. I tell him the news--and he says, "Oh." Just another arbitrary tidbit for him to file away...

This evening at dinner (my wife is pregnant now again)--the same son asks between bites of lentils and yogurt, "when you have boys do you have to make them with boy-love? And when you have girls you have to have girl-love? Did you have boy-love or girl-love with this baby?"

Firstly--my wife and I are both studied in the sciences. We come from greatly different backgrounds and have agreed to be a reference for the kids, to talk bluntly about things like sex, love and death and in the end encourage them to be unafraid of learning deeply about topics and forming their own opinions.

Secondly--we have a healthy sense of humor and this question was too good to let die. We replied, "what type of love do you think we had?" He says, "well you made boy-love for Lex and boy-love for Liam and boy-love for Eoin and boy-love for Me. Did you make boy-love for the new baby?" Now--biting our lips--we explained a smidgen of genetics, "you see Daddy's genes decide whether it's a boy or a girl, but we don't get to choose. So there's really no boy-love or girl-love, just love-love."

By the time we'd finished, he was back to lentils. Another datum stored.

Rails www.hostname.com to hostname.com redirect...

2008-06-15T13:47:00.000-07:00

Is easy if you are running nginx. Read how.

Installing NX on Amazon's EC2 CentOS

2008-06-12T04:48:00.000-07:00

NX is a VNC alternative that tunnels graphic traffic via SSH. You can do the same with VNC by hand, but NX makes the entire process a bit easier (once you get the configuration right). You can do plenty of reading up on NX starting from NoMachine's website.

Initially I followed a writeup I found online on NX for Fedora 6. It was a great start, but didn't match my experience on EC2 and CentOS.

Here's what I did (full transcript below)

Install the GNOME desktop:

sudo yum groupinstall "X Window System" "GNOME Desktop Environment"

Install freenx
```
sudo yum install freenx
```

Install an nx client on your local machine
```
http://www.nomachine.com/download.php
```
Get the private key from your remote machine
```
cat /etc/nxserver/client.id_dsa.key
```

Put the private key into the NX client. From the NX client GUI go to Configure and then Key. Copy the one you found above and save. You are now connecting!

Troubleshooting:



The NX service is not available or the NX access was disabled on host.


# Do this or you will get Authorizaton failed for NX user:
NX> 203 NXSSH running with pid: 18810
NX> 285 Enabling check on switch command
NX> 285 Enabling skip of SSH config files
NX> 285 Setting the preferred NX options
NX> 200 Connected to address: 67.202.31.150 on port: 22
NX> 202 Authenticating user: nx
NX> 208 Using auth method: publickey
NX> 204 Authentication failed.

Fixed by:


# NX client replace key with this one.
cat /etc/nxserver/client.id_dsa.key


# Do this or the client will start and make it to the NX Console large black window before dying without comment.
sudo yum groupinstall "X Window System" "GNOME Desktop Environment"


[shell:~] cat /etc/issue
CentOS release 5.0 (Final)
Kernel \r on an \m

[shell:~] sudo yum groupinstall "X Window System" "GNOME Desktop Environment"
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---> Package libraw1394.i386 0:1.2.1-1.fc6 set to be updated
---> Package gnome-python2-gnomevfs.i386 0:2.16.0-1.fc6 set to be updated
---> Package docbook-dtds.noarch 0:1.0-30.1 set to be updated
---> Package festival.i386 0:1.95-5.2.1 set to be updated
---> Package libsilc.i386 0:1.0.2-2.fc6 set to be updated
---> Package libtheora.i386 0:1.0alpha7-1 set to be updated
---> Package gnome-python2-bonobo.i386 0:2.16.0-1.fc6 set to be updated
---> Package libavc1394.i386 0:0.5.3-1.fc6 set to be updated
---> Package libdv.i386 0:0.104-4.fc6.1 set to be updated
---> Package ghostscript-fonts.noarch 0:5.50-13.1.1 set to be updated
---> Package gnome-python2-gnomeprint.i386 0:2.16.0-1.fc6 set to be updated
---> Package libogg.i386 2:1.1.3-3.el5 set to be updated
---> Package libcroco.i386 0:0.6.1-2.1 set to be updated
---> Package liboil.i386 0:0.3.8-2.1 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: sgml-common >= 0.6.3-4 for package: docbook-dtds
--> Processing Dependency: PyXML for package: system-config-printer-libs
--> Processing Dependency: xml-common >= 0.6.3-8 for package: docbook-dtds
--> Processing Dependency: foomatic for package: system-config-printer-libs
--> Processing Dependency: xml-common for package: docbook-dtds
--> Processing Dependency: lockdev for package: gphoto2
--> Processing Dependency: openjade = 1.3.2 for package: docbook-dtds
--> Processing Dependency: pyorbit >= 2.0.l for package: gnome-python2-bonobo
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package sgml-common.noarch 0:0.6.3-18 set to be updated
---> Package PyXML.i386 0:0.8.4-4 set to be updated
---> Package foomatic.i386 0:3.0.2-38.1.el5 set to be updated
---> Package xml-common.noarch 0:0.6.3-18 set to be updated
---> Package openjade.i386 0:1.3.2-27 set to be updated
---> Package lockdev.i386 0:1.0.1-10 set to be updated
---> Package pyorbit.i386 0:2.14.1-1.1 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libosp.so.5 for package: openjade
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package opensp.i386 0:1.5.2-4 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved

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Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
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Installing:
NetworkManager-gnome    i386       1:0.6.4-6.el5    base              168 k
alacarte                noarch     0.10.0-1.fc6     base              143 k
at-spi                  i386       1.7.11-2.fc6     base              289 k
authconfig-gtk          i386       5.3.12-2.el5     base               53 k
bitmap-fonts            noarch     0.3-5.1.1        base              906 k
bitstream-vera-fonts    noarch     1.10-7           base              343 k
control-center          i386       1:2.16.0-14.el5  base              2.7 M
dejavu-lgc-fonts        noarch     2.10-1           base              2.9 M
desktop-backgrounds-basic  noarch     2.0-40.el5.centos  base              2.9 M
desktop-printing        i386       0.19-20.el5      base              103 k
dvd+rw-tools            i386       7.0-0.el5.3      base              114 k
eog                     i386       2.16.0.1-6.el5   base              589 k
esc                     i386       1.0.0-20.el5     base              7.7 M
evince                  i386       0.6.0-8.el5      base              925 k
file-roller             i386       2.16.0-2.fc6     base              1.0 M
firstboot               noarch     1.4.27.2-1.el5.centos.1  base              386 k
gdm                     i386       1:2.16.0-31.0.1.el5.centos  updates           3.6 M
gedit                   i386       1:2.16.0-5.el5   base              4.3 M
gimp-print-utils        i386       4.2.7-22         base               22 k
glx-utils               i386       6.5.1-7.2.el5    base               31 k
gnome-applets           i386       1:2.16.0.1-19.el5  base              8.9 M
gnome-audio             noarch     2.0.0-3.1.1      base              1.1 M
gnome-backgrounds       noarch     2.15.92-1.fc6    base              1.0 M
gnome-mag               i386       0.13.1-1.fc6     base               93 k
gnome-media             i386       2.16.1-3.el5     base              2.4 M
gnome-netstatus         i386       2.12.0-5.el5     base              257 k
gnome-panel             i386       2.16.1-6.el5     base              3.3 M
gnome-pilot             i386       2.0.13-16        base              535 k
gnome-power-manager     i386       2.16.0-7.el5     base              2.2 M
gnome-screensaver       i386       2.16.1-5.el5     base              1.8 M
gnome-session           i386       2.16.0-6.el5.centos  base              409 k
gnome-system-monitor    i386       2.16.0-3.el5     base              1.3 M
gnome-terminal          i386       2.16.0-3.el5     base              2.2 M
gnome-themes            noarch     2.16.0-1.fc6     base              2.3 M
gnome-user-docs         noarch     2.16.0-2.fc6     base              6.2 M
gnome-user-share        i386       0.10-6.el5       base               39 k
gnome-utils             i386       1:2.16.0-3.el5   base              3.7 M
gnome-vfs2-smb          i386       2.16.2-4.el5     base               34 k
gnome-volume-manager    i386       2.15.0-4.el5     base              404 k
gok                     i386       1.2.0-2.el5      base              1.5 M
gtkhtml3                i386       3.12.0-1.fc6     base              948 k
hal-gnome               i386       0.5.8.1-19.el5   base               88 k
im-chooser              i386       0.3.3-6.el5      base               70 k
krb5-auth-dialog        i386       0.7-1            base               23 k
linuxwacom              i386       0.7.4.3-2.el5    base              166 k
metacity                i386       2.16.0-8.el5     base              2.1 M
nautilus                i386       2.16.2-6.el5     base              4.2 M
nautilus-cd-burner      i386       2.16.0-7.el5     base              482 k
nautilus-open-terminal  i386       0.6-6.el5        base               29 k
nautilus-sendto         i386       0.7-5.fc6        base               61 k
orca                    i386       1.0.0-5.el5      base              853 k
pirut                   noarch     1.2.10-1.el5.centos.1  base              246 k
rhgb                    i386       0.16.4-6.el5.centos  base              197 k
sabayon-apply           i386       2.12.4-3.el5     base              283 k
synaptics               i386       0.14.4-8.fc6     base               59 k
system-config-date      noarch     1.8.12-1.el5     base              1.3 M
system-config-display   noarch     1.0.48-2.el5     base              266 k
system-config-network   noarch     1.3.99-1.el5     base              402 k
system-config-services  noarch     0.9.4-1.el5      base              186 k
system-config-soundcard  noarch     2.0.6-1.el5      base              1.1 M
system-config-users     noarch     1.2.51-1.el5     base              357 k
vino                    i386       2.13.5-6.el5     base              311 k
xorg-x11-apps           i386       7.1-4.0.1.el5    updates           254 k
xorg-x11-drivers        i386       7.1-4.1.el5      base              4.7 k
xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi   noarch     7.1-2.1.el5      base              3.2 M
xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi    noarch     7.1-2.1.el5      base              2.8 M
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi  noarch     7.1-2.1.el5      base              1.1 M
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi  noarch     7.1-2.1.el5      base              932 k
xorg-x11-fonts-Type1    noarch     7.1-2.1.el5      base              1.5 M
xorg-x11-fonts-misc     noarch     7.1-2.1.el5      base              2.2 M
xorg-x11-fonts-truetype  noarch     7.1-2.1.el5      base              428 k
xorg-x11-server-Xorg    i386       1.1.1-48.13.0.1.el5  updates           3.2 M
xorg-x11-twm            i386       1:1.0.1-3.1      base               96 k
xorg-x11-xinit          i386       1.0.2-13.el5     base               26 k
yelp                    i386       2.16.0-15.el5    updates           569 k
Installing for dependencies:
NetworkManager-glib     i386       1:0.6.4-6.el5    base               27 k
PyXML                   i386       0.8.4-4          base              1.1 M
alsa-utils              i386       1.0.12-3.fc6     base              1.0 M
brlapi                  i386       0.4.1-1.fc6.1    base               77 k
cdparanoia-libs         i386       alpha9.8-27.2    base               50 k
cdrdao                  i386       1.2.1-2          base              441 k
cdrecord                i386       9:2.01-10        base              590 k
comps-extras            noarch     11.1-1.1.el5.centos  base               46 k
cyrus-sasl-md5          i386       2.1.22-4         base               45 k
dbus-x11                i386       1.0.0-6.el5      base               27 k
docbook-dtds            noarch     1.0-30.1         base              677 k
eel2                    i386       2.16.1-1.el5     base              368 k
evolution-data-server   i386       1.8.0-15.0.4.el5  updates           3.4 M
festival                i386       1.95-5.2.1       base               23 M
firefox                 i386       1.5.0.12-6.el5.centos  updates            20 M
flac                    i386       1.1.2-28.el5_0.1  updates           305 k
foomatic                i386       3.0.2-38.1.el5   base               12 M
gail                    i386       1.9.2-1.fc6      base              353 k
gaim                    i386       2:2.0.0-0.28.beta5.el5  base              6.7 M
gcalctool               i386       5.8.25-1.el5     base              1.0 M
ghostscript             i386       8.15.2-9.1.el5   base              5.9 M
ghostscript-fonts       noarch     5.50-13.1.1      base              801 k
gimp-print              i386       4.2.7-22         base              2.4 M
gnome-doc-utils         noarch     0.8.0-2.fc6      base              252 k
gnome-icon-theme        noarch     2.16.0.1-4.el5   base              2.9 M
gnome-menus             i386       2.16.0-2.fc6     base              170 k
gnome-python2           i386       2.16.0-1.fc6     base              126 k
gnome-python2-applet    i386       2.16.0-1.fc6     base               12 k
gnome-python2-bonobo    i386       2.16.0-1.fc6     base               63 k
gnome-python2-canvas    i386       2.16.0-1.fc6     base               23 k
gnome-python2-desktop   i386       2.16.0-1.fc6     base               43 k
gnome-python2-extras    i386       2.14.2-4.fc6     base               24 k
gnome-python2-gconf     i386       2.16.0-1.fc6     base               31 k
gnome-python2-gnomeprint  i386       2.16.0-1.fc6     base               77 k
gnome-python2-gnomevfs  i386       2.16.0-1.fc6     base               65 k
gnome-python2-gtksourceview  i386       2.16.0-1.fc6     base               57 k
gnome-python2-libegg    i386       2.14.2-4.fc6     base               53 k
gnome-speech            i386       0.4.5-1.fc6      base               32 k
gphoto2                 i386       2.2.0-3.el5      base              1.4 M
gstreamer               i386       0.10.9-3.el5     base              546 k
gstreamer-plugins-base  i386       0.10.9-6.el5     base              605 k
gstreamer-plugins-good  i386       0.10.4-2.el5     base              579 k
gstreamer-tools         i386       0.10.9-3.el5     base               17 k
gthumb                  i386       2.7.8-5.el5      base              1.9 M
gtksourceview           i386       1.8.0-1.fc6      base              460 k
gtkspell                i386       2.0.11-2.1       base               30 k
gucharmap               i386       1.8.0-1.fc6      base              2.4 M
hal-cups-utils          i386       0.6.2-5          base               26 k
httpd                   i386       2.2.3-7.el5.centos  updates           1.1 M
libXScrnSaver           i386       1.1.0-3.1        base               12 k
libXTrap                i386       1.0.0-3.1        base               22 k
libXdamage              i386       1.0.3-2.1        base               11 k
libXevie                i386       1.0.1-3.1        base               14 k
libXfontcache           i386       1.0.2-3.1        base              9.6 k
libXv                   i386       1.0.1-4.1        base               14 k
libXxf86dga             i386       1.0.1-3.1        base               15 k
libXxf86misc            i386       1.0.1-3.1        base               11 k
libavc1394              i386       0.5.3-1.fc6      base               45 k
libcroco                i386       0.6.1-2.1        base              127 k
libdmx                  i386       1.0.2-3.1        base               13 k
libdv                   i386       0.104-4.fc6.1    base               79 k
libexif                 i386       0.6.13-4.0.2.el5  updates           149 k
libgail-gnome           i386       1.1.3-1.2.1      base               28 k
libgnomecups            i386       0.2.2-8          base               73 k
libgnomeprint22         i386       2.12.1-9.el5     base              396 k
libgnomeprintui22       i386       2.12.1-6         base              318 k
libgsf                  i386       1.14.1-6.1       base              116 k
libgtop2                i386       2.14.4-3.el5     base              143 k
libiec61883             i386       1.0.0-11.fc6     base               37 k
libogg                  i386       2:1.1.3-3.el5    base               19 k
liboil                  i386       0.3.8-2.1        base              133 k
libraw1394              i386       1.2.1-1.fc6      base               39 k
librsvg2                i386       2.16.1-1.el5     base              178 k
libsilc                 i386       1.0.2-2.fc6      base              412 k
libsoup                 i386       2.2.98-2.el5     base              148 k
libtheora               i386       1.0alpha7-1      base              708 k
libvorbis               i386       1:1.1.2-3.el5.0  updates           192 k
libxkbfile              i386       1.0.3-3.1        base               73 k
libxklavier             i386       3.0-3.el5        base               87 k
lockdev                 i386       1.0.1-10         base               14 k
mesa-libGLU             i386       6.5.1-7.2.el5    base              227 k
mkisofs                 i386       9:2.01-10        base              596 k
nautilus-extensions     i386       2.16.2-6.el5     base               37 k
notify-python           i386       0.1.0-3.fc6      base               12 k
ntp                     i386       4.2.2p1-5.el5    base              1.3 M
openjade                i386       1.3.2-27         base              980 k
opensp                  i386       1.5.2-4          base              1.1 M
pilot-link              i386       2:0.11.8-16      base              407 k
pkgconfig               i386       1:0.21-1.fc6     base               58 k
poppler                 i386       0.5.4-4.1.el5    updates           3.0 M
pycairo                 i386       1.2.0-1.1        base               27 k
pygtk2                  i386       2.10.1-8.el5     base              1.1 M
pygtk2-libglade         i386       2.10.1-8.el5     base               17 k
pyorbit                 i386       2.14.1-1.1       base               47 k
python-numeric          i386       23.7-2.2.2       base              751 k
pyxf86config            i386       0.3.31-2.fc6     base               65 k
rhpxl                   i386       0.41-1.el5       base              101 k
samba-common            i386       3.0.23c-2.el5.2.0.2  updates           8.6 M
scrollkeeper            i386       0.3.14-9.el5     base              294 k
sgml-common             noarch     0.6.3-18         base               40 k
sox                     i386       12.18.1-1        base              314 k
speex                   i386       1.0.5-4          base              206 k
system-config-keyboard  noarch     1.2.11-1.el5     base               68 k
system-config-language  noarch     1.1.18-1.el5     base               68 k
system-config-printer-libs  i386       0.7.32.5-1.el5   base              218 k
system-config-securitylevel  i386       1.6.29.1-1.el5   base              277 k
urw-fonts               noarch     2.3-6.1.1        base              4.5 M
usermode-gtk            i386       1.88-3.el5       base              106 k
vte                     i386       0.14.0-2.el5     base              459 k
xkeyboard-config        noarch     0.8-7.fc6        base              327 k
xml-common              noarch     0.6.3-18         base              5.8 k
xorg-x11-drv-acecad     i386       1.1.0-2.1        base               10 k
xorg-x11-drv-aiptek     i386       1.0.1-2          base               18 k
xorg-x11-drv-apm        i386       1.1.1-2.1        base               67 k
xorg-x11-drv-ark        i386       0.6.0-2.1        base               13 k
xorg-x11-drv-ast        i386       0.81.0-3         base               23 k
xorg-x11-drv-ati        i386       6.6.3-3.2.el5    base              346 k
xorg-x11-drv-calcomp    i386       1.1.0-1.1        base               11 k
xorg-x11-drv-chips      i386       1.1.1-2.1        base               75 k
xorg-x11-drv-cirrus     i386       1.1.0-2.fc6      base               40 k
xorg-x11-drv-citron     i386       2.2.0-1.1        base               29 k
xorg-x11-drv-cyrix      i386       1.1.0-4          base               19 k
xorg-x11-drv-digitaledge  i386       1.1.0-1.1        base               10 k
xorg-x11-drv-dmc        i386       1.1.0-2          base              9.4 k
xorg-x11-drv-dummy      i386       0.2.0-2.1        base               11 k
xorg-x11-drv-dynapro    i386       1.1.0-2          base              9.1 k
xorg-x11-drv-elo2300    i386       1.1.0-1.1        base              9.7 k
xorg-x11-drv-elographics  i386       1.1.0-1.1        base               12 k
xorg-x11-drv-evdev      i386       1:1.0.0.5-2.el5  base              9.1 k
xorg-x11-drv-fbdev      i386       0.3.0-2          base               14 k
xorg-x11-drv-fpit       i386       1.1.0-1.1        base               11 k
xorg-x11-drv-glint      i386       1.1.1-4.1        base              105 k
xorg-x11-drv-hyperpen   i386       1.1.0-2          base               12 k
xorg-x11-drv-i128       i386       1.2.0-4          base               31 k
xorg-x11-drv-i740       i386       1.1.0-2.1        base               26 k
xorg-x11-drv-i810       i386       1.6.5-9.2.el5    base              281 k
xorg-x11-drv-jamstudio  i386       1.1.0-1.1        base              8.8 k
xorg-x11-drv-joystick   i386       1.1.0-1.1        base              7.2 k
xorg-x11-drv-keyboard   i386       1.1.0-2.1        base               14 k
xorg-x11-drv-magellan   i386       1.1.0-1.1        base              8.7 k
xorg-x11-drv-magictouch  i386       1.0.0.5-2.1      base              5.5 k
xorg-x11-drv-mga        i386       1.4.2-5.el5      base               81 k
xorg-x11-drv-microtouch  i386       1.1.0-1.1        base               12 k
xorg-x11-drv-mouse      i386       1.1.1-1.1        base               28 k
xorg-x11-drv-mutouch    i386       1.1.0-2          base               12 k
xorg-x11-drv-neomagic   i386       1.1.1-2.1        base               38 k
xorg-x11-drv-nsc        i386       2.8.1-2.1        base              135 k
xorg-x11-drv-nv         i386       1.2.0-4.fc6      base               72 k
xorg-x11-drv-palmax     i386       1.1.0-1.1        base               11 k
xorg-x11-drv-penmount   i386       1.1.0-2.1        base              9.9 k
xorg-x11-drv-rendition  i386       4.1.0-3.1        base               48 k
xorg-x11-drv-s3         i386       0.4.1-2.1        base               30 k
xorg-x11-drv-s3virge    i386       1.9.1-2.1        base               41 k
xorg-x11-drv-savage     i386       2.1.1-5.fc6      base               69 k
xorg-x11-drv-siliconmotion  i386       1.4.1-2.1        base               45 k
xorg-x11-drv-sis        i386       0.9.1-7          base              284 k
xorg-x11-drv-sisusb     i386       0.8.1-4.1        base               44 k
xorg-x11-drv-spaceorb   i386       1.1.0-1.1        base              8.4 k
xorg-x11-drv-summa      i386       1.1.0-1.1        base               12 k
xorg-x11-drv-tdfx       i386       1.2.1-3.1        base               38 k
xorg-x11-drv-tek4957    i386       1.1.0-1.1        base               10 k
xorg-x11-drv-trident    i386       1.2.1-3.fc6      base               74 k
xorg-x11-drv-tseng      i386       1.1.0-3.1        base               28 k
xorg-x11-drv-ur98       i386       1.1.0-1.1        base               12 k
xorg-x11-drv-v4l        i386       0.1.1-4          base               12 k
xorg-x11-drv-vesa       i386       1.2.1-5.2.el5    base               17 k
xorg-x11-drv-vga        i386       4.1.0-2.1        base               15 k
xorg-x11-drv-via        i386       0.2.1-9          base              142 k
xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse    i386       12.4.0-2.1       base               14 k
xorg-x11-drv-vmware     i386       10.13.0-2.1      base               24 k
xorg-x11-drv-void       i386       1.1.0-3.1        base              7.6 k
xorg-x11-drv-voodoo     i386       1.1.0-3.1        base               19 k
xorg-x11-server-Xnest   i386       1.1.1-48.13.0.1.el5  updates           1.4 M
xorg-x11-server-utils   i386       7.1-4.fc6        base              164 k
xorg-x11-utils          i386       7.1-2.fc6        base              116 k
xorg-x11-xkb-utils      i386       1.0.2-2.1        base              176 k
xsri                    i386       1:2.1.0-10.fc6   base               30 k
zenity                  i386       2.16.0-2.el5     base              1.2 M

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python-numeric.i386 0:23.7-2.2.2 pyxf86config.i386 0:0.3.31-2.fc6 rhpxl.i386 0:0.41-1.el5 samba-common.i386 0:3.0.23c-2.el5.2.0.2 scrollkeeper.i386 0:0.3.14-9.el5 sgml-common.noarch 0:0.6.3-18 sox.i386 0:12.18.1-1 speex.i386 0:1.0.5-4 system-config-keyboard.noarch 0:1.2.11-1.el5 system-config-language.noarch 0:1.1.18-1.el5 system-config-printer-libs.i386 0:0.7.32.5-1.el5 system-config-securitylevel.i386 0:1.6.29.1-1.el5 urw-fonts.noarch 0:2.3-6.1.1 usermode-gtk.i386 0:1.88-3.el5 vte.i386 0:0.14.0-2.el5 xkeyboard-config.noarch 0:0.8-7.fc6 xml-common.noarch 0:0.6.3-18 xorg-x11-drv-acecad.i386 0:1.1.0-2.1 xorg-x11-drv-aiptek.i386 0:1.0.1-2 xorg-x11-drv-apm.i386 0:1.1.1-2.1 xorg-x11-drv-ark.i386 0:0.6.0-2.1 xorg-x11-drv-ast.i386 0:0.81.0-3 xorg-x11-drv-ati.i386 0:6.6.3-3.2.el5 xorg-x11-drv-calcomp.i386 0:1.1.0-1.1 xorg-x11-drv-chips.i386 0:1.1.1-2.1 xorg-x11-drv-cirrus.i386 0:1.1.0-2.fc6 xorg-x11-drv-citron.i386 0:2.2.0-1.1 xorg-x11-drv-cyrix.i386 0:1.1.0-4 xorg-x11-drv-digitaledge.i386 0:1.1.0-1.1 xorg-x11-drv-dmc.i386 0:1.1.0-2 xorg-x11-drv-dummy.i386 0:0.2.0-2.1 xorg-x11-drv-dynapro.i386 0:1.1.0-2 xorg-x11-drv-elo2300.i386 0:1.1.0-1.1 xorg-x11-drv-elographics.i386 0:1.1.0-1.1 xorg-x11-drv-evdev.i386 1:1.0.0.5-2.el5 xorg-x11-drv-fbdev.i386 0:0.3.0-2 xorg-x11-drv-fpit.i386 0:1.1.0-1.1 xorg-x11-drv-glint.i386 0:1.1.1-4.1 xorg-x11-drv-hyperpen.i386 0:1.1.0-2 xorg-x11-drv-i128.i386 0:1.2.0-4 xorg-x11-drv-i740.i386 0:1.1.0-2.1 xorg-x11-drv-i810.i386 0:1.6.5-9.2.el5 xorg-x11-drv-jamstudio.i386 0:1.1.0-1.1 xorg-x11-drv-joystick.i386 0:1.1.0-1.1 xorg-x11-drv-keyboard.i386 0:1.1.0-2.1 xorg-x11-drv-magellan.i386 0:1.1.0-1.1 xorg-x11-drv-magictouch.i386 0:1.0.0.5-2.1 xorg-x11-drv-mga.i386 0:1.4.2-5.el5 xorg-x11-drv-microtouch.i386 0:1.1.0-1.1 xorg-x11-drv-mouse.i386 0:1.1.1-1.1 xorg-x11-drv-mutouch.i386 0:1.1.0-2 xorg-x11-drv-neomagic.i386 0:1.1.1-2.1 xorg-x11-drv-nsc.i386 0:2.8.1-2.1 xorg-x11-drv-nv.i386 0:1.2.0-4.fc6 xorg-x11-drv-palmax.i386 0:1.1.0-1.1 xorg-x11-drv-penmount.i386 0:1.1.0-2.1 xorg-x11-drv-rendition.i386 0:4.1.0-3.1 xorg-x11-drv-s3.i386 0:0.4.1-2.1 xorg-x11-drv-s3virge.i386 0:1.9.1-2.1 xorg-x11-drv-savage.i386 0:2.1.1-5.fc6 xorg-x11-drv-siliconmotion.i386 0:1.4.1-2.1 xorg-x11-drv-sis.i386 0:0.9.1-7 xorg-x11-drv-sisusb.i386 0:0.8.1-4.1 xorg-x11-drv-spaceorb.i386 0:1.1.0-1.1 xorg-x11-drv-summa.i386 0:1.1.0-1.1 xorg-x11-drv-tdfx.i386 0:1.2.1-3.1 xorg-x11-drv-tek4957.i386 0:1.1.0-1.1 xorg-x11-drv-trident.i386 0:1.2.1-3.fc6 xorg-x11-drv-tseng.i386 0:1.1.0-3.1 xorg-x11-drv-ur98.i386 0:1.1.0-1.1 xorg-x11-drv-v4l.i386 0:0.1.1-4 xorg-x11-drv-vesa.i386 0:1.2.1-5.2.el5 xorg-x11-drv-vga.i386 0:4.1.0-2.1 xorg-x11-drv-via.i386 0:0.2.1-9 xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse.i386 0:12.4.0-2.1 xorg-x11-drv-vmware.i386 0:10.13.0-2.1 xorg-x11-drv-void.i386 0:1.1.0-3.1 xorg-x11-drv-voodoo.i386 0:1.1.0-3.1 xorg-x11-server-Xnest.i386 0:1.1.1-48.13.0.1.el5 xorg-x11-server-utils.i386 0:7.1-4.fc6 xorg-x11-utils.i386 0:7.1-2.fc6 xorg-x11-xkb-utils.i386 0:1.0.2-2.1 xsri.i386 1:2.1.0-10.fc6 zenity.i386 0:2.16.0-2.el5
Complete!

[shell:~] sudo yum install freenx
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for freenx to pack into transaction set.
freenx-0.7.1.svn416-2.el5 100% |=========================|  13 kB    00:00 
---> Package freenx.i386 0:0.7.1.svn416-2.el5.centos set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: /usr/bin/expect for package: freenx
--> Processing Dependency: expect for package: freenx
--> Processing Dependency: nx >= 2.0.0 for package: freenx
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for nx to pack into transaction set.
nx-3.0.0-4.el5.centos.i38 100% |=========================|  18 kB    00:00 
---> Package nx.i386 0:3.0.0-4.el5.centos set to be updated
---> Downloading header for expect to pack into transaction set.
expect-5.43.0-5.1.i386.rp 100% |=========================|  15 kB    00:00 
---> Package expect.i386 0:5.43.0-5.1 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libXcomposite.so.1 for package: nx
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for libXcomposite to pack into transaction set.
libXcomposite-0.3-5.1.i38 100% |=========================| 5.6 kB    00:00 
---> Package libXcomposite.i386 0:0.3-5.1 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
freenx                  i386       0.7.1.svn416-2.el5.centos  extras             77 k
Installing for dependencies:
expect                  i386       5.43.0-5.1       base              158 k
libXcomposite           i386       0.3-5.1          base               11 k
nx                      i386       3.0.0-4.el5.centos  extras            2.9 M

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      4 Package(s)     
Update       0 Package(s)     
Remove       0 Package(s)     

Total download size: 3.1 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/4): freenx-0.7.1.svn41 100% |=========================|  77 kB    00:00 
(2/4): nx-3.0.0-4.el5.cen 100% |=========================| 2.9 MB    00:00 
(3/4): libXcomposite-0.3- 100% |=========================|  11 kB    00:00 
(4/4): expect-5.43.0-5.1. 100% |=========================| 158 kB    00:00 
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Installing: expect                       ######################### [1/4]
Installing: libXcomposite                ######################### [2/4]
Installing: nx                           ######################### [3/4]
Installing: freenx                       ######################### [4/4]
Stopping sshd: [  OK  ]
Starting sshd: [  OK  ]
Starting freenx-server:  [  OK  ]


Installed: freenx.i386 0:0.7.1.svn416-2.el5.centos
Dependency Installed: expect.i386 0:5.43.0-5.1 libXcomposite.i386 0:0.3-5.1 nx.i386 0:3.0.0-4.el5.centos
Complete!

Traveling with US gadgets in the EU...

2008-05-23T10:10:00.000-07:00

I'm frequently between Europe and the US--and I find some gadgets travel better than others. I travel light, but bring a few must-haves for my field.

That's a Black MacBook (aka "BlackBook"), my Vertu and an iTouch. The BlackBook is excellent for travel--when I take the energy efficient settings and keep the display lowish, I can cover a good part of worktime on a transatlantic flight with only one spare. I keep the cord on the power adapter and take two International Power adapters. One for Ireland and the UK where the power plugs are brickish with 3 square prongs--and one for Continental Europe (France, Spain, Germany, Switzerland for me) with two pin-shaped prongs. The BlackBook takes the 220V foreign power fine (doesn't need a voltage inverter), but I've noticed that batteries in the UK/Ireland take twice as long to charge.

What about connectivity? If I'm in a home, apartment or hotel, I make sure it has wireless or I stay somewhere else. I have US T-Mobile Hotspot account as well as a Germany T-Mobile account and UK T-Mobile Hotspot account. In Switzerland I buy 30-day passes on their hotspot network (the name eludes me right now). The fees vary from country-to-country with the UK's the most expensive at £40 ($80) for 30 days. That said--when you get into Heathrow from a 9 hour trip and you head downtown on the Paddington Express (which I highly recommend)--it's well worth $80 to have 15 minutes of highspeed connectivity to catch up. In Ireland I have an O2 mobile broadband subscription and in the US I have ATT mobile broadband as well as a dataplan for my phone which doubles as an EDGE blue-tooth modem. Yowza! I haven't gotten to phones yet either!

By the way--the worst connectivity I've found is in the South of Spain. We were staying with friends with no broadband. I couldn't find an Internet cafe that stayed open past my boys' bedtime. My Irish O2 broadband dongle didn't get signal. I ended up borrowing my wife's US ATT iPhone to do webmail as a last resort... likely the most inefficient web browsing I've ever done. After my troubles I did look online and found a few outfits that rent a broadband connection (with very limited maximum usage) for a week or longer in Spain--and I'll likely try this in the future.

Phones... Hah! I started this post to share some of my transatlantic finds--and I'm realizing I have more of my own questions now than answers. That said, if you can solve this one, I'm ecstatic. Here's how I work my phones:

I travel with a Vertu. I bought it in a moment of weakness in the flagship Nokia store in Chicago. It's feature-free, never breaks, and always makes calls. I love it!
I have a SkypeIn in the US, UK and Ireland. I give this number out. SkypeIn gives you a local number for folks to dial to reach you on Skype--but SkypeOut will then forward this call to a number you provide. Effectively shifting the International calling fees to me (at Skype rates) rather than my callers.
Depending on the Country I'm in, I forward this SkypeIn number to my Country-specific phone account. In the US, this is T-Mobile (I've sued them and won--and nothing positive to say about them) for lack of an effective alternative. Before I leave the US, I set my SkypeOut to the local number of the Country I'm landing in--say the UK. In London I swap my US SIM for a UK Vodafone SIM with the inbound number I set SkypeOut to forward my calls to. Note that my Vertu is a quadband, unlocked worldphone so the SIM swapping is relatively straightforward.

Now--this arrangement works great for some things. My callers make a local call, saving them International charges and hassle tracking down which country and number I'm on. I save on my calls--since I'm using a plan local to where I'm calling, I don't charge up roaming fees (which I've had at £2 or more per minutes ($4+).

And it has its drawbacks--depending on the Country I'm in and the caller's Country--I can see a noticeable delay in calls to the extent that it can cause some confusion. And often more importantly--in Europe there's a lot of texting (aka "SMS messaging") that goes on and I've found I've missed a number of texts sent to my SkypeIn number. In the end, for frequent callers, I give them both numbers and tell them to only use my local number when they know I'm in the Country.

Also--I have to keep a number of SIM cards with me in my travels, keeping track of which SIM is for which Country and which number. I also have to keep them charged--as it's not easy getting non-prepay accounts when you are a non-resident (sorry for the double negative, but that's the accurate way to put it). I've checked this arrangement with my tech buddies that travel and most of them have setup something similar to what I have now. If there's a silver-bullet that makes this trivial and I've managed to miss it, I'd love to hear what it is. Charging my Vertu? The charger takes the EU 220V without a problem and I swap the power adapter from my BlackBook as needed--the Vertu keeps two day's charge with a few hours of power.

Finally, I take with me my iTouch (iPod Touch). It carries all my audiobooks for the plane, family photos, my contacts--wifi email and in a pinch some web browsing. Really a killer device to have with me when I'm not bringing my laptop. Care of the iTouch? It charges on USB from my BlackBook--so all is well there.

Travel is a permanent part of my life and finding the right way to travel with my gadgets and staying connected is an evolving puzzle. I'd love feedback from others that have made progress and I'll continue to share my updates.

Is my MacBook faster than Google's AppEngine?

2008-05-07T13:00:00.000-07:00

Really. I'm only a little kidding. Check it out at my AppEngine testbed. My performance.py script is available for review. Some reasons why this is the case:

Google is running much more on the hardware I'm using than just my process.
Google is using old commodity hardware. My MacBook is just faster.
Google quota checking is not entirely trivial and thread calls may involve heavier operations here. My MacBook using the AppEngine SDK does no quota checks.
New thread creation was not a performance focus for Google's platform.

Implications:

"You write it, we'll scale it." is a hard proposition to make. In fact, it may likely be impossible. Google has taken a very opaque approach to their platform. It is opaque because you have little control, knowledge, or understanding of how your code is being executed. Specifically--what type of server is it on? what memory footprint? what other load is on the server? what are Google-induced constraints? what are multi-server scaling induced constraints?
Will Google open its architecture for developer review? If not, is it worthwhile--and Google approved--to externally investigate their configuration through scripts like the trivial one I wrote?
Google is facing a tough problem striking a balance between keeping their unblemished record of scaling their own apps from being dragged lower by us 3rd parties. The more Google keeps to themselves about their architecture and implementation, the more risk they take on their plate. The more they are transparent, the more they put on ours. Right now we see very little--and without reverse engineering Google's platform, we can only make our findings and decide whether Google performance can be trusted to meet our needs.

Congratulations to RightScale!

2008-05-05T07:03:00.000-07:00

It's great to see your projects (and friends!) find success. RightScale was a venture I helped co-found with Thorsten von Eicken in its pre-seeding stages. With my hands full with RightCart and ELC, I transitioned out of the team, but we have continued to collaborate with our customers to bring disruptive technologies into play for the right problems. RightScale just closed a round of funding from Benchmark capital--a great show of support of the concept, their vision and ability to execute. The RightScale team is filled with experienced leaders and it is exciting to see their success grow. RightScale today makes Amazon's platform usable for real businesses. This is much bigger than most people outside of the EC2 tech community appreciate. Two years ago if I mentioned EC2 or cloud computing the responses were "technology is great for grid computing and research" and "not ready for web applications." And they were right! There's a whole slew of reasons for this. Some technical--no static IPs, resilient hard disk devices, etc. Some are part of the adoption cycle--need evangelists and early adopters to prove out a platform before mainstream interest. Some were brought on by the vendors in the space--SUN had a grid computing platform that was 10x the cost of Amazon's EC2 and relatively "unsexy" for the web crowd; Amazon's approach was a bit fly-by-night in its early stages--and particularly (and purposely!) lacked support and management tools. The technology concerns have by-and-large been addressed by Amazon's offering of today--and then some. The adoption cycle has had time to prove itself with early and chasm-crossing wins. And RightScale has done WONDERS in terms of providing the know-how and infrastructure to make EC2 work for grid AND web applications. All working together--I have a different set of conversations with CIO's and technology leads today. They wonder why their organizations are trying to build NOCs and POPs at huge capital expense. They wonder why a new development initiative is stalled because of a committee-eqsue email exchange over who had priority rights to the power allotment remaining in a rack at an overburden internal West Coast datacenter (that's a real one!). They wonder why development partners like ELC are able to spin up entire development and staging configurations in a matter of minutes thanks to EC2 and RightScale--while they wait and wait for IT to respond. And the final straw is cost. When you run numbers on a web deployment, leaving room for growth, bursty traffic, auxiliary servers, staging and support servers--you find that EC2 is a great value for many, many applications. So a little sleight of hand happened--early adopters braved the wilds with Amazon. RightScale heard their pains and made solutions every step of the way. First it really was large grid users that were attracted with real budgets. But many web applications today have a HUGE grid component to them--think YouTube and all that backend video transcoding (user uploads to optimal-sized web-ready flash). So the next round of EC2 interest were part web apps and part grid apps--and RightScale helped tailor solutions for them as well. Amazon heard this as well and all parties moved towards an offering that really satisfies a nice portion of the web market today. And why does RightScale make EC2 ready for real businesses? Real businesses want someone to know their problems well and already have answers for them. What happens when an instance fails? Ask RightScale! How much redundancy should I build into my configuration and how? Ask RightScale! What type of monitoring do I need and what hooks into EC2 are there to leverage an automatic recovery? Ask RightScale! Amazon wants to engage these dialogs. Especially at the tech level--they have great insightful forums--but they don't want to be hand-holding their customers and setting best practices for network configurations. Without these answers, a business can't consider EC2 ready for business--and RightScale has the right team, experience and technology to provide really good solutions. Where to next? Commoditized servers are an interesting concept. It's reasonable to think of a commodity server platform as part of a component in a product deployment. In other words--when building a product--you need some processing power. BUT, the processing power needs to be told what to do at many levels--by code, by application/database configuration, and by network configurations. So you may have these areas of concern:

YOUR APPLICATION CODE

Ex: The coding logic and schemas behind RightCart.com, YouTube.com, or others.

YOUR LANGUAGE OF CHOICE

Ex: Ruby, Python, PHP, Java

YOUR FRAMEWORK OF CHOICE

Ex: Rails / TurboGears / CakePHP / J2EE

GLUE TO CONFIGURE A DEPLOYMENT

Ex: Ant / Capistrano / Shell scripts / By Hand

THE SERVERS

Ex: RackSpace / EC2 / Your IT Dept

THE NETWORK

Ex: Cisco routing config / EC2 groups / VM virtual nets

MONITORING AND UPKEEP

Ex: Monit / External Ping / Automated failover

The next step as I see it will be to decide which of these areas are high-value and advantageous to keep under ones organizational walls and which areas are low-value and advantageous to outsource to the best provider. Making all but (1) low-value means picking a direction like Google App Engine. But then again, that today implies a language/platform choice of Python and Google's infrastructure (http library replacements, etc)--which are often tightly linked into your team efficiency, problem domain and existing code assets. Maybe it won't be a necessary choice in the future--and Google or others will support your choice of deployment language and framework (like the way we used to guard our deployment OS of choice). Amazon is heading deep into #5 and gradually adding to #6. RightScale has attacked #4, #6, and #7 where it applies to the server infrastructure. Assuming the diversity of languages exists for a positive purpose--then that still leaves a good heaping of growth before #4-7 all "just work." In other words, can we imagine a day when develop an app in a framework of our choice and then hit "deploy to application engine: Google, Amazon+RightScale, M$ft.NET, Sun.Java." As long as we are jointly solving common web paradigms, this is--in my mind--where the next step leads.

My obligatory Google AppEngine Hello World

2008-05-04T05:30:00.000-07:00

I did my part--and gave Google's AppEngine a whirl. You can see my hello world app and maybe a bit more in the future.

Thoughts? Total time from deciding to give it a try and having a deployed hello world app is 30 minutes. Includes minor bumbling on the concept of "application naming"--which if you are following the hello world tutorial by copy and paste--you'll want to make sure you change the line in app.yaml to reflect your application name (application: xxx) rather than hello world otherwise the application upload fails like:

google-app-engine usiegj00$ appcfg.py update helloworld/ Loaded authentication cookies from /Users/usiegj00/.appcfg_cookies Scanning files on local disk. Initiating update. 2008-05-04 14:27:15,191 ERROR appcfg.py:1072 An unexpected error occurred. Aborting. Error 403: --- begin server output --- You do not have permission to modify this app. --- end server output ---

I'm interested in how Google is calculating usage--and how they will bill for it in the future. I will post an update on what I find.

User Content 1.0 vs 2.0 in 2007...

2006-10-08T01:12:00.000-07:00

2007 is heading towards us quickly! I'm taking the lead and starting my 2007 predictions with the long tail of user-generated content. Prediction: Articles like this News.com article Death of the free web appear for Web 2.0. I.E. article.replace( 'geocities', 'blogspot' )--my blog excluded of course. I believe there is great content in the internet, but if history does repeat itself, I think the signs are becoming clear: web counters--the rage in 1995, hidden in 2001 and back in force in 2006 (renamed "readers"); blinking text, animated gifs, tiled backgrounds, auto-start music, forever scrolling pages--in 2000 (geocities) and here again today (myspace).

Excellent Ruby on Rails tips.

2006-09-20T20:48:00.000-07:00

This blog post by PJ Hyett and Chris Wanstrath is amazing. It covers something I've been dying to find since starting ruby--the _ command. Yes--that's an underscore. This let's you reference the result from your previous command (like * did back in the lisp days). Read on for more great tips.

Obsessed with Project Runway

2006-09-07T01:01:00.000-07:00

Project Runway Season 2 from Amazon I have had a cable-free house for over a decade mainly because I lack any antibodies to turn off the TV. I love Netflix since once my wife and I watch our DVDs we have to wait a few days before we watch anything else. This has been great, but over the past 5 years we've racked up 700 rentals and made it through most of the movies we ever imagined we'd want to watch. We've been limping by with a real reach of titles from our recommendations and wondering where our next source for content... and then came iTunes. Now we're finding there are years and years worth of embarassingly engaging TV programming that we can access instantly and finally understand why all of our friends were talking about getting fired in the "boardroom" and how odd neighbors can be. Our newest find is Project Runway which is the Apprentice reality show for fashion designer hopefuls. We started with the current season and are really enjoying it. The personalities are endearing and besides one character (*Angela*) that seems like a plant (is that part of the reality TV gig?), the interaction is very believable. Although I have a very limited view of the space, I recommend it as the best of the reality TV I've come across--well besides my brief immersion in Japan's crazy, crazy reality TV.

My 2005 Honda Pilot is for sale sold!

2006-09-07T00:50:00.000-07:00

My life as a multiple car owner is coming to an end. I have a 2005 Honda Pilot for sale. It is a great vehicle (this coming from someone who drove tiny, tiny vehicles and biked before owning the Pilot) and if I had infinite money and infinite parking I'd never sell it. See my Craiglist listing for details. UPDATE: 10/01/06 Pilot is sold!

How do you find your blogs?

2006-09-01T01:03:00.000-07:00

I am an avid blog reader since I was turned on to Engadget et. al. about a year and a half ago. Since then my scope has spread outwards to other "mainstream" blogs like the Ruby On Rails weblog, and TechCrunch. I read these blogs and monitor their feeds regularly to stay up-to-date on technologies that are interesting to me or relate to my business. Then there are another group of blogs--generally small blogs, run for for fun not profit--that I come across by chance in google searches, or cross-linked from a larger publisher. I find these non-professional blogs are incredibly personable, interesting to read, and give an alternative view to a subject. I would love to have more access to this content, but I don't know how to find it. I've spent hours surfing Technorati, but with 52.7 million blogs in their index, I find myself totally overwhelmed. Maybe there is too much content to organize just by algorithm? The opposite approach is to let the audience organize the content. This is Digg.com's model which is awesome for the handful of digg'ed links that make it to their front page--but they often are the larger blogs and content sites that get the top spots. So what do you do to find your blogs? Is it the random button on blogspot? the popular page on Digg? or some other method?

CodeWeavers works magic in OS/X!

2006-08-31T14:21:00.000-07:00

Thanks to Jeremy White at CodeWeavers, my MacBook Pro has reached Nirvana: Installing Microsoft Money: Running IE6: What's that running on my desktop? Yep--it's Microsoft Money and Internet Explorer 6.0. It's not emulated, not within a VM, and not in Bootcamp. I work daily with the web, and with Ruby on Rails. OS/X is the best environment for me to be effective working on my projects--but I've been searching for the right solution to maintaining a Windows environment for the app I can't easily replace. In other posts I've discussed my usage of other solutions to running Windows within my Mac, and CodeWeavers gives me the best up-to-speed time (launch programs natively and directly vs launch Parallels, boot VM/restore VM), and the cleanest usage environment (a fully independent and uncontained desktop window vs embedded in a heavy Windows instance). Some details--I received an early version of CodeWeavers' product (CrossOver for OS/X) as I'm on their Alpha and now early Beta list. CrossOver is an application that enables software written for Windows to run natively on other operating systems by providing replacement libraries for ALL of the Windows-specific system calls. Actually--this is a really incredible statement and a testament to the work CodeWeavers has done in bringing this product to life. Effectively, they have rewritten EVERY necessary Windows library to run very, very complex pieces of software (such as IE) without sourcecode or changing a thing (at least from my perspective as a user). CodeWeavers provided CrossOver as a 30MB self-installer. The install was quick (under 10 minutes) and painless (not a single hiccup). Once completed, I ran the CrossOver application and was presented with 3 options--use their installer wizard to install common Windows programs, organize my "Bottles"--compartmentalized virtual windows systems (separate registry and application databases), and help and support options. I chose to use their installer and looked for the applications I wanted to install (Project, Visio, and IE). I thought I would start with IE, and selected the wizard. To my surprise, CrossOver automated the download of IE in addition to the install, so instead of searching for my WinXP disc, I sat back and let the installer run:

Once installed, I went to the menu bar named "programs" and there was Internet Explorer!

I think CodeWeavers has done an excellent job with this release--they support a solid collection of M$ business apps and although I'm not a gamer I saw that they support a number of games that I did recognize (Half Life and others). I will be a paying customer when their software has its final release and I would encourage any other "switchers" out there to consider it as an option for those irreplaceable apps.

Blogger's upgrade...

2006-08-30T10:05:00.000-07:00

Blogger's upgrade did in my access to my blog for a few days. They integrated Google accounts and blogger accounts, giving google accounts preference. Instead of getting my blog dashboard on login, I was getting access to the blogs in my "google account"--which happens to share the same id/password as my blogger account. Since I have no blogs in that account, I was getting access to no blogs. After a failed attempt to get help from Blogger's support team, I did some password finagaling on my google account to get access again. In my absence here, I started posting my thoughts on Amazon's EC2 service at AmazonEC2.com. I will try and put all future Amazon EC2-related posts there. Also of interest--is that in the downtime--I tried out the WordPress blog migration feature I discovered in a previous post. Take a look at usiegj00.wordpress.com to see the results.

Sandboxing Amazon EC2

2006-08-25T01:32:00.000-07:00

Here's something cool I'd like to share--if you've gotten into the Amazon EC2 beta and want to repeatedly test your images (like we've been doing), it's helpful to automate the process. Well--that's what we've done with a little bash scripting. We've created two scripts: new_instance and temp_instance. The new_instance script does all the legwork to ready a server and even logs you in when it is available. It looks like this:

Bravo:~/Projects/ec2 jonathan$ ./new_instance Starting a fedora core base AMI. Instance is i-e17b9e88. Polling server status (ec2-describe-instances i-e17b9e88) ................................................................. The server is available at domU-12-31-33-00-01-66.usma1.compute.amazonaws.com. Warning: Permanently added 'domu-12-31-33-00-01-66.usma1.compute.amazonaws.com,216.182.228.100' (RSA) to the list of known hosts. __| __|_ ) _| ( / ___|\___|___| Welcome to an EC2 Public Image :-) [root@domu-12-31-33-00-01-66 ~]# logout Connection to domU-12-31-33-00-01-66.usma1.compute.amazonaws.com closed. Terminate with: ec2-terminate-instances i-e17b9e88

The temp_instance script works identically, but terminates the running instance on logout, rather than just echoing the termination command. To get the scripts to work, you'll want a directory layout like: Bravo:~/Projects/ec2 jonathan$ ls -l -rwxr-xr-x 1 jonathan jonathan 689 Aug 24 23:17 cert-PSQ...US576UB.pem drwxrwxrwx 4 jonathan jonathan 136 Aug 23 06:17 ec2-api-tools-1.2-5502 -rw------- 1 jonathan jonathan 1671 Aug 24 23:24 id_rsa-gsg-keypair -rwxr-xr-x 1 jonathan jonathan 1090 Aug 25 01:10 new_instance -rwxr-xr-x 1 jonathan jonathan 721 Aug 24 23:17 pk-PSQ...576UB.pem -rwxr-xr-x 1 jonathan jonathan 1113 Aug 25 01:10 temp_instance You should have this or something like it already if you've followed the getting started docs. There is one other step--edit the temp_instance and new_instance files and make the pk-*.pem and cert-*.pem filenames match those generated for your usage. Any comments are appreciated.

Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) goes Beta

2006-08-24T03:39:00.000-07:00

I can't help adoring Amazon. As a book seller, they provide an infinite selection and have always delivered my books quickly and accurately. As a technology company, they are making our life on the internet really, really fun. I just received my Beta invitation to Amazon EC2 "Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud" and I am thrilled. "Why, why would I be thrilled about an elastic compute cloud?" I hear you scream. Because it solves a core problem for my business that is expensive, requires deep technical expertise, and is--well--not fun. The details: Amazon's new offering is a commodity hardware / processing service to match their commodity storage / bandwidth (Amazon S3) service. This is the death knoll for maintaining our own servers, colocation, and managed hosting. With EC2, Amazon is providing serverpower in a pay-per-use model that scales from single instances to thousands of machines. Each server: predictably provides the equivalent of a system with a 1.7Ghz Xeon CPU, 1.75GB of RAM, 160GB of local disk, and 250Mb/s of network bandwidth." The cost: $.10 per instance-hour Disk storage is provided by Amazon S3. Standard S3 storage rates apply. Transfer rates are identical to S3, except in-network EC2-EC2 or EC2-S3 transfers which are FREE. Amazon provides a JAVA based API to create machine instances--which can be full-blown custom linux installs (they also provide default images for popular Fedora Core 3/4). From the docs (readying image, uploading to S3, registering and running): Expect this technology to be heavily leveraged in RightCart.com in the coming months.

OS/X, Ruby on Rails, Install script for Apple's Intel Macs

2006-08-24T00:04:00.000-07:00

Automated configuration is very important to our process--it keeps all our machines in the same state, makes it easy for new developers to come onboard, and in the end saves many, many hours of finding the same mistakes. Not long ago, I was able to search google for "Ruby on Rails OS/X" and get a nice installer script that could be downloaded and run on a new Mac to get Ruby on Rails up and running. I've been steadily buying up more Mac's and this was a great kick-start for the manual install steps. Then one day I went to find the script and... it disappeared. Since then, we've been maintaining our own Ruby on Rails install script. The word got out, and I've had enough requests to share it that I'm now making it public. It's a copy from our internal wiki, so don't ask about SVN access. If you feel there's an addition, please leave your thoughts in the comments. I've opened this under the Apache 2.0 license mainly to get a disclaimer of no warranty, and beware--this very well nuke your whole system, so read it first and understand the steps before you apply. If you missed the link above, you can download the script here (http://elctech.com/ruby/elc_new_mac_ruby_on_rails_installer.sh). Note that there is gratuitous copying from the awesome tutorial by HiveLogic and that this script installs Darwin ports (to ease GraphicsMagick installation, an rmagick gem dependency).

Best way to migrate your blog?

2006-08-23T21:51:00.000-07:00

With the release of the new beta blogger.com, I wonder--what happens after years of blogging one blog system and finding that one wants to migrate to the latest and greatest on another service; or maybe your blog system gets blocked by the largest democracy in the world? Say today, blogger wasn't releasing an updated site, and I wanted to take advantage of a more powerful blog like typepad. Granted, I have under a year of posts under my belt, but keeping even the little history I have is important. It is plenty lockin to keep me from entertaining the thought of moving systems--unless there is an automated service that would make it a completely seamless transition. A little google sleuthing turns up WordPress migration from Blogger or Typad, but I cannot find any other resources. Maybe this is just an obscure thought--but my hunch is that among the 50M blogs out there, many would want the freedom to migrate to the best product at their desire. Well--I suppose my aspirations for migrating to TypePad will have to wait--and hopefully I'll get into the Blogger beta soon... as tags and a little AJAX will be nice to have.

The TAB key works!

2006-08-22T23:38:00.000-07:00

Read this and do it. I thought Mac's just had poorly supported TAB keys, but believe it or not--it's a feature to have form select boxes, popup-boxes and more SKIPPED when you try to tab to them. The post by Tony Spencer shows how to disable the feature.

2006-08-19T21:32:00.000-07:00

Thanks to Dave McClue our attendance at last night's awesome TechCrunch party has been memorialized (here, with Edgeio's Matt Kaufman here, and here).

RailsConf 2006

2006-07-08T01:10:00.000-07:00

Finally getting caught up from RailsConf--which was a great exposure to many interesting and dedicated people laying the groundwork for my Web 2.0 framework of choice Ruby on Rails. I arrived for the pre-conference guidebook by Mike Clark and Dave Thomas. They are an incredible team for presenting clear and concise RoR seminars and they were well attended. I also had the pleasure meeting John Long who demo'd his Radiant CMS system soon to be powering Ruby-Lang.org. John is a talented designer, an accomplished rails architect and really, really likeable. I expect John to find much success in his project. Also before the conference, I had some one-on-one time with the man himself DHH. I found that I have some work to do reading up on Agile methods--I barely speak the lingo--but did find common ground in an appreciation of our European citizenship (I married into mine). The conference itself is a bit of a blur. 600 faces to match with names I've seen on TechCrunch, RubyOnRails.org, and the mailing lists. Great meets include Chad Fowler, Martin Fowler (no relationship), Jason Fried, Al Chang, Scott Raymond, among many, many others. Note that I stayed at the conference hotel--the Whyndam O'Hare. Pluses were no commute to the conference and a great camaraderie with other attendees. The downside? The Internet! It flat-out stopped under the full-brunt of all those brushed aluminum MacBook Pro's. Somehow I made it through the weekend on GPRS, and on Monday I caught up online during breaks of the Getting Real seminar by the 37 Signals team DHH + Jason Fried and their designer Ryan. There is a lot to take away from a concentrated session covering lightweight design philosophies. Some were reaffirming for what I do in my own practices, but others will take some time to digest before I can decide whether they are a good fit for the organizations and structure I create. All-in-all it is a great opportunity to hear first-hand experience from the guys at the epicenter of Web 2.0 and Ruby on Rails. I would recommend the seminar to anyone managing a team tackling a modern web application.

Debugging Rails outgoing mail on a MacBook Pro

2006-05-10T21:01:00.000-07:00

The need to test outgoing email from a rails app by actually sending the mail arose today. Trying to do this with a clean MacBook Pro gives:

computer-2:~/Projects/mailtest jonathan$ ./script/console Loading development environment. >> SystemNotifier.deliver_generic( 'test', 'test' ) postdrop: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory => # bodyport=

Some searching yielded this mail list link. With the salient command (which fixed everything when run once):

computer-2:~/Projects/mailtest jonathan$ sudo /usr/sbin/postfix start Password: postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system