Last month I was working on a FreeBSD 10.1 KVM image for SmartOS, SmartDataCenter and the Joyent Public Cloud. The first version of the image was released a few weeks ago and I'd like to share how I went about building the image. More specifically, I'd like to provide…
I recently switched Horrell.ca from Textpattern to Ghost. Chances are there are a bunch of broken links to files and such. I'm still tweaking and fixing things and reworking the site design, so expect more changes in the coming months :) For anyone else who wants to attempt this, a…
CloudFlare is a great service and I’ve been using for my horrell.ca site for some time. It speeds everything up, acts as a firewall protecting your site from bots and jerks, and also provides IPv6 support. One side affect of using CloudFlare is the Apache logs for your…
Here are some updated instructions for installing the latest stable version of node (v0.4.12), as well as npm, on a Joyent SmartMachine. These instructions install node in the ~/local directory avoiding the need for root privileges when installing things with npm, which is bad. First, create a ~src/…
UPDATE These instructions have been replaced by the much better instructions here: Installing node and npm on a Joyent SmartMachine Here's a little tip for installing node.js (latest) on a Joyent SmartMachine (formerly called an Accelerator). First, you'll need to be root, so lets get that out of the…