Yet Another .NET StatsD Client
What is this? As described, this is Yet Another StatsD .NET Client. Why? At Audiu and RepostExchange, our infrastructure is spread far and wide. This gives us an unfortunate situation where we end up...
Mike Goodfellow Blog
Perform a disk check on a Synology NAS (DSM6)
It should be so simple right? For whatever reason, your NAS drive shut down improperly. In my case, I even have a UPS, but DSM had crashed (for the first time in years!) and...
ASP.NET HttpResponseException and ActionFilter / ExceptionFilter
I think one of my biggest gripes with ASP.NET MVC/WebAPI has to be the HttpResponseException and the way it interacts with the request pipeline, and therefore, ActionFilters and ExceptionFilters. The MSDN documentation for HttpResponseException...
S3 Backup Utility!
TL;DR Get the S3 Backup Utility using: pip install s3backup Example configurations etc. on GitHub Full Description As part of our backups at Audiu I wanted a simple but flexible cross platform backup script...
Git Tricks – Git up
I realise that my blog is fast becoming a library of Git Tricks – but nevermind, here’s another one! There is a brilliant tool called git up – if you aren’t using it and...
Git Tricks – Delete local merged branches
It’s all too easy in Git to end up with loads of local branches. Once they have been merged on the remote then they fail to update. Plus, if you run: $ git branch...
How good is your SSL configuration?
Mine was terrible as it turns out. Well… That’s not the full story, my IIS configuration was terrible, and my apache configuration was sort of passable. But not by any means “good”. It turns...
Git Tricks – Forking Pattern
I have been using Subversion now for 5+ years, and to be honest, I thought it was great. Until I started working on more complex branches, or had some dredded unresolvable mess because I...
MySQL Simple? Master-Slave Replication
(Or: How I learnt to stop worrying and love the quirks) During my time working with MySQL replication, I have learnt a number of things which can either make the process simpler, or far...
Google Chrome End-to-End
I have been following the Google announcement of End-to-End (a new Chrome Extension) with interest. It was originally shown to the public as Alpha in June 2014, and then in early December 2014 they announced...
