I've been installing a few monitoring solutions... zenoss, hyperic and others... but initial impressions on all of them are lacking... I mean... they're overly complicated, Monitoring and graphing is easy... and having a base setup out of the box isn't to much to ask I don't think... I want something like cloudkick. Simple, elegant... yet appears to be sufficiently flexible. What more could you want? I would say however, I'm fairly disappointed that its a service mostly... means I'm probably not going to use it at all... and maybe if my boss feels sufficiently giving...he'll invest some money and we'll write our own...
Bonus part? Looking at their careers section... python, django, twisted... seems they read my mind... thats the tools I would have used to build one...
I FINALLY DID IT! can you believe it... I've been saying it for ever... but I finally got some free time at work to work on it... and... its still a work in progress... style sheets need to be finished... some other code needs to be done... I need to bring back my photo albums... which will be new and improved... but... its running django... and my own custom blog app. It seems a little slow to me with me so I'll work on some tuning options, but it runs fast on my laptop... My laptop is quite a bit more powerful than this vhost.... I've disable php from my server!
Well... I"ve been playing with Python for work for a couple years now... and over the last 6 months or so, I've been using django for various projects. And I've decided my blog as well as everything else on this site will be replaced by django apps. Some that I will write and others that I will find and download off the net. I've been using and keeping wordpress updated for all these years and well... I have to say, I don't really like it, I don't feel its allowed me to make the sites or extensions that I want within the templates framework they they supply. So, over the next couple months, I will be putting a new site together with a new design as well. The hardest part is going to be getting all my old posts into the new database. Since I don't have many comments (only 4 or so for the years I've been doing it) I'm not going to bother keeping those... as that would make the task even harder... But a new design will come with the site... one I have seen a few examples and have my mind racing over... but I don't know what it will be just yet. should be fun.
I've been using wordpress now for a couple years, and while I don't have any major complaints against it... I think I'd just like "more". Or... maybe I just need to take advantage of the features it has... however... the whole slashdot/digg effect flooding out wordpress servers... not that I think I'll ever get slash dotted, but... what can I say... i'm a geek and I like to tinker occasionally. Currently my biggest reason for not doing anything, is I'd have to rewrite a whole new theme... I spent a good couple hours doing the one I have and I just don't know where I'd find the time to do it again...
So... I guess I wouldn't expect it any time soon.. however i may get bored or suddenly have an urge and alot of time on my hands so you never know... I did come home with a new car last week...
