JSON is usually beautifully simply and useful. I'm starting to see the same un-necessarily over-complicated nesting of simple data by API vendors as the XML crowd. All I'm missing is Base64encoded JSON inside of Base64encoded JSON.
@derickr The value out of the DB call is effectively a string. I can (and did) change that, the frustration is they want it as a number in one place, and the same value as string in another. and they did this in multiple fields.
In my head there is only text. It's all just text. But that's just my strange way of looking at things.
Showed a young dev/geek code using the Asterisk AMI interface, essentially a plain text socket you can telnet to or use with socket code. The horror was palpable. Much of the real "make things work" world work this way. How are us old geeks going to be able to retire? I need to find a pliable youngling/padawan to train in the dark arts. #PHP#asterisk
New issue found: Once you get a bunch of systems on the same network using DropBox locally, the amount of UDP broadcast traffic from each to port 17500 can overwhelm equipment, and an Asterisk PBX listening on ports 10,000 to 30,000. Just setup a local file server/share, please. #dropbox#asterisk
I'd pay $10+ per month for a setting in amazon.com for my mother-in-law to be able to shop, go through the motions of buying things with a delivery date 7 days into the future. after that, it'd just show it as returned and never charge her. 'Cuz she's therapy shopping: when stuff shows up she asks my wife (her daughter) why it showed up, doesn't remember it, doesn't like it and ask to please return it. #amazon
I've been using Linode for many many years for hosting > 100 custom Debian/Asterisk VPS's... I'm starting to look for a secondary provider, preferably with good API's for spinning up images and managing basics (power on/off, creation at datacenters from specific images). If you aren't a sales droid, and have a positive recommendation for someplace, I'd love to see/hear it. #Asterisk#VoIP#Debian#Hosting
Camping. Our neighbors (large family and friends reunion?) last night had such a large fire with lots of starter fluid it set off our fire detector and propane leak detector. It went off again after we closed windows and turned on the AC. Cripes. On the good side, they quiet this morning, sleeping hangover late probably. And we're "wheels up" soon, we will be gone. #RVLife
I'm looking for a simple Linux/PHP photo album I can put on a my public website to share some recent trip pictures in full hi-res glory. Last time I did this, I wrote my own (and it sucked, but worked). I did a search, and there is so much kruft and phat crap I don't want to put it on my machine. - worst case, some perl and imagemagick would work. But I'm being lazy.
Took a nap. Wrote code to do what I wanted (not much) for an photo album display on my website in my dreams/sleep. So now I gotta do it, right? Thank dieties for Exif data, if only it were standardized among cameras.
Looking for a sane way for on system startup to delay starting Apache2 for a few minutes. any old crunchy sysadmins got a favorite way? I could add a startup script to crontab.. but is there a better way?
@meuon tangentially: it seems systemd doesn't have a "proper" way to delay services, either. I was surprised to find this, since it's so full-featured.