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20 Apr 2014
Red Hat Summit 2014 – Session Slides
This is an update to my previous post about my (then) upcoming conference presentation.
The slides from my session at Red Hat Summit 2014, JBoss in the Trenches, are now posted online. Most of the slides have generous amounts of extra material in their notes.
- JBoss_In_The_Trenches.pdf – 2.57MiB
- JBoss_In_The_Trenches.odp – 8.51MiB
And as a bonus, here’s a select few pictures from the trip to San Francisco:
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5 Apr 2014
Red Hat Summit 2014 – JBoss In The Trenches
Just a heads up, at Red Hat Summit this year I’ll be co-presenting a session with Andy Block. The presentation is on Wednesday, April 16 from 3:40 pm – 4:40 pm.
JBoss In The Trenches
In this session (my first time presenting at a conference! w00t!) we’ll be going over the enormous year-long migration from JBoss EAP 4/5 to 6.1 we undertook last year in RH IT. As we move through the different stages of the migration we’ll introduce you to industry best practices and implementation decisions to consider when deploying EAP6 clusters. Here’s some teaser slides!
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27 Mar 2014
python-bitmath – Now available in Fedora!
Last week I wrote about bitmath, a Python module I made for working with (prefix) units commonly used to represent file sizes, e.g., kB, GiB, Byte, TB. I can now happily say that python-bitmath has passed the review process and has been officially accepted into Fedora!
Need more proof?
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20 Mar 2014
Fedora 20 and the ThinkPad T440s touchpad
Background
My old work laptop, the ThinkPad T510, went out of warranty a few months ago. At work this means I’m eligible for a hardware refresh, i.e., a new laptop. Because they’re so much thinner and lighter, this time I decided to go with the 400 series. All in all it’s a fine piece of hardware, so long as you’re running Fedora 20 (or newer). I have two lingering issues however.
- The default touchpad configuration
- External display handling (which I won’t go into at this time)
The T440s is one of those laptops trying it’s hardest to emulate the Apple Trackpad. That is to say, the T440S has one giant touchpad, no left/right/middle buttons. Unfortunately for Linux users, this is usually either a hit or a miss. It was a miss for me.
My problems with laptop touchpads usually come down to a few basic things:
- Unintentional taps/clicks
- Random cursor movement due to palm/wrist bumping
- Random page/document scrolling
And specific to the T440s:
- Extremely difficult to click without dragging
- Difficult to find the right spot for middle clicking
- (Most interestingly) Randomly causing the Gnome notification panel to appear
In the past I’ve dealt with the former issues by simply disabling tap to click and touchpad scroll regions. But the T440s is an entirely different beast which required quite a bit more effort to make it usable.
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16 Mar 2014
New side-project: bitmath – A Python module for representing file sizes with different prefix notations
Update: 2014-03-27 – python-bitmath is now in Fedora!
Background
I’ve written a new Python module which I’m calling bitmath.
Given my day job as a System Administrator, and the content of my upcoming book on Linux virtual disks, I frequently find myself in situations requiring me to convert file sizes into various other formats. I recall far too many instances of having to do unit conversions mid-code in projects (does this look familiar to anyone else?):
Thus, out of necessity, bitmath was born.
bitmath
I’m going to plagiarize myself here and rip the long description right from the project:
bitmath simplifies many facets of interacting with file sizes in various units. Examples include: converting between SI and NIST prefix units (GiB to kB), converting between units of the same type (SI to SI, or NIST to NIST), basic arithmetic operations (subtracting 42KiB from 50GiB), and rich comparison operations (1024 Bytes == 1KiB).
In addition to the conversion and math operations, bitmath provides human readable representations of values which are suitable for use in interactive shells as well as larger scripts and applications.
Anyone not deeply invested in the heartache that comes with converting base-2 and base-10 prefix units can stop reading now.
Why Should You Care?
bitmath is Pythonic
bitmath finally provides a uniform way to manipulate these units in a way which is natural to Python programmers. There’s nothing special or unusual required to work with bitmath objects. You can add them, subtract them, multiply and divide them — just like you’re already used to with the int and float objects. bitmath objects support all of the standard Rich Comparison Operators as well!
bitmath converts anything
Converting bitmath objects is a first-class supported operation. Even more complex conversions, like converting from Mibibits to Kilobytes, is trivial. This functionality is supported in both directions: from the lowliest Bit() object through the grand EiB() object. That is to say, any bitmath object, whether it be base-2 (NIST ‘kibi’ and ‘gibi’ style) or base-10 (SI ‘kilo’ and ‘giga’ style), supports conversion (without loss of accuracy) to any other valid prefix unit.
bitmath objects print out nicely
As the previous two examples demonstrated, bitmath objects have useful console representations, as well as string representations. In a future release the format string for this may be configurable.
Getting bitmath
Fedora/RHEL6 users will need to wait a bit longer for a proper yum install command to be available, as the package
is currently sitting in the package-review queueawaiting judgement. Update: 2014-03-27: python-bitmath is now in Fedora!However, there are several other methods available for installation: installing from PyPi, building your own RPM, and from setup/distutils.
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