http://blog.stevenkroon.com Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:30:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today I wanted to show someone a preview of some code I was writing for my Rails application, however didn't feel like doing al the cumbersome work to transfer the files to my webserver and launch the application from there. I've been working on some ruby on rails facebook code ... http://blog.stevenkroon.com/2007/12/23/rails-tunnel-plugin/ In my next article i would like to get into *at* and *batch*. Instead of describing every available command line option and syntax there is, lets show some examples and nice ways to use both to schedule tasks from the command line. There are a couple of commands which we are ... http://blog.stevenkroon.com/2007/03/26/scheduling-tasks-with-at/ Do you find your self struggling with typing *apt-cache search* the whole time. It's too time consuming and its easy to make a typo, typing in the whole string. There are quicker and easier ways accomplishing the same thing. There should be a shortcut to this command if you ask me, ... http://blog.stevenkroon.com/2006/09/12/debian-sapt/ Resolving domain names can be very simple, besides what is so fascinating about looking up an ip address that belongs to a domain name? Well the domain naming system is a pretty complex piece of technology that you might take for granted. There are nice tools which are able to ... http://blog.stevenkroon.com/2006/09/12/dig-it/ While working with VMware ESX 3 lately me and a college discovered a bug. Thing was we could not connect the ESX nodes to Virtual Control Center. It had something todo with DNS lookups, lets look at what it was. After a while of head scratching we thought lets try resolving ... http://blog.stevenkroon.com/2006/09/04/vmware-dns-bug/ A real brilliant feature of Debian is the *alternatives* system. Couple of days ago i was playing with java. and I wanted both the [Sun java](http://java.sun.com/ "java.sun.com") and the [Kaffe](http://www.kaffe.org/ "www.kaffe.org") version installed on my system. The problem here is, how to easily tell wich java compiler to use, the ... http://blog.stevenkroon.com/2006/08/29/debian-update-alternatives/ System Administrators are always looking for ways to make life easier. The command line is full of nice little features that can save you tons of time. Ever wondered how to remove all blank lines from a file or how to translate all uppercase characters to lowercase. In this article ... http://blog.stevenkroon.com/2006/08/24/dog-is-better-than-cat/ Looking at file content is a trivial task, most people use *more* or *less* and take there usage for granted. However there are some nice features that these utilities have to offer. Let's start looking at some of them. In the following descriptions, ^X means control-X. ESC stands for ... http://blog.stevenkroon.com/2006/08/23/less-is-more/