Every so often I like to publish my current podcast subscriptions (last update from late 2013: Top 7 Technical Podcasts). Since joining DataStax a year ago my commute time is significantly shorter, so I’ve slimmed down my playlist as well. Here is my current subscription list: Hanselminutes [rss] One of my favorites. Scott Hanselman is a great interviewer and runs through a broad variety of guests. Giant Robots Smashing into other Giant Robots Podcast [rss] One of my other favories. Ben Orenstein from Thoughtbot hosts. Plus, the title is cool. .NET Rocks! [rss] I’ve been listening to these guys for…
Early in March this site was hit with a WordPress hack that was present for about 10 days until I discovered and fixed it. After the fix I was frequently checking Google Webmaster Tools to make sure search results returned. After about one week, my traffic (from Google at least) had pretty much recovered to the pre-hack levels: And here is the corresponding timeline from Google Analytics, showing traffic slowly returning to normal:
Last night I had the unpleasant discovery that this site’s WordPress had been “hacked”, with every post redirecting to an uploaded “this site has been hacked” variety of HTML file. I looked back and realized it happened on March 1st and mad at myself for not noticing sooner. Fortunately it was pretty easy to clean up by zapping the database and restoring from a good backup (thankfully I have daily backups running). The harder part is going to be recovering in Google’s view. Search queries as shown in Google Webmaster Tools dropped like crazy right away: And here’s the corresponding…
I’ve continued to make improvements to my “Cassandra on Vagrant” project (Using Vagrant for Local Cassandra Development) which shows how to install open-source Cassandra or DataStax Enterprise in a variety of different ways. Using Vagrant is very helpful for local development and testing. Virtual images can be created very quickly and can be erased when done, keeping your primary development system clean. Recently I added an example which uses the DataStax Enterprise (DSE) standalone installer which first appeared in DSE 4.5. The standalone installer normally runs in a graphical UI mode, but can also be run in an unattended mode…
Update: For the latest, check out Tech Advent Calendars – 2016 It’s that time of the year again – Advent calendars for many tech communities. As in past years (2011, 2012, 2013), I’ve gathered a few here that should be interesting: * Perf Planet Advent (performance) – Feed * 24ways Advent (web design/development) – Feed * Perl Advent (Perl language) – Feed * Java Advent (Java language) – Feed * UXMas (UX for everyone) – Feed * SysAdvent (Sysadmin) – Feed I have a combined RSS feed (created with Yahoo! Pipes) that picks up all of these advent calendars: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TechAdventCalendars.…