I’m working a project to create Python program that scrapes jobs from a Jenkins server, with the end goal of storing them in a Mongo NoSQL database as an archive. At work we have more than a dozen build servers that will ultimately will be consolidated to a few. My plan(since we are moving to […]
Python’s Fabric module makes automation easy. This post shows how to use a Fabric script to backup a WordPress installation, but could be used for most LAMP backup situations! Goals of this Post: backup SQL to /tmp backup WEB ROOT to /tmp tar SQL + site & zip download delete /tmp
I’m in the process of moving my mindset from static linear scripting to an object oriented one. My goal is to solve problems with algorithms I create myself. It’s a tough climb because I come from Systems Admin/Networking side of things and didn’t benefit from Computer Science theory and advanced mathematics. I’m hoping to […]
Recently table top gaming has made a huge comeback. For the first time in 20 years my friends and I are role playing! We agreed on the new Star Wars RPG by Fantasy Flight games, STAR WARS: Age of Rebellion role playing game. It’s novel in many aspects compared to the previous D6 and D20 […]
CentOS 6 doesn’t have native support for Python 3 and corresponding module management tool ‘pip’. I prefer pip for managing my Python modules. On CentOS 7 there is a specific yum package for pip(Python 2.7) and pip3(Python 3.4) respectively. However on COS 6 we must install the ‘epel repository’ to get Python 3.4 and there is no specific […]