Author Archives: joecrow

Getting Started with Apache Hadoop 0.23.0

Posted on December 4, 2011 by joecrow

Hadoop 0.23.0 was released November 11, 2011. Being the future of the Hadoop platform, it’s worth checking out even though it is an alpha release. Note: Many of the instructions in this article came from trial and error, and there are … Continue reading →

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Recap: Apache Flume (incubating) User Meetup, Hadoop World 2011 NYC Edition

Posted on November 13, 2011 by joecrow

The Apache Flume (incubating) User Meetup, Hadoop World 2011 NYC Edition was Wednesday, November 9. It was collocated with the Hive Meetup at Palantir’s awesome office space in the meatpacking district in Manhattan. The following are my notes from the two … Continue reading →

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Recap: April Puppet NYC Meetup

Posted on April 21, 2011 by joecrow

Last week, I attended my first Puppet NYC meetup, which was hosted at Gilt Groupe. As a fairly recent user of puppet, it was great to meet some folks from the community in NYC that are using it on a … Continue reading →

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Silently broken Gmail

Posted on April 2, 2011 by joecrow

At work, we have google apps, which comes with several gigs of gmail storage. For email, though, we use outlook server with a low quota. Rather than deleting email, I “archive” to gmail via IMAP. One day, though, gmail IMAP … Continue reading →

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two puppet tricks: combining arrays and local tests

Posted on February 1, 2011 by joecrow

Joining Arrays I found myself wanting to join a bunch of arrays in my puppet manifests. I had 3 lists of ip addresses, but wanted to join all 3 lists together into a single list to provide all ips to … Continue reading →

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Python setup.py bdist_rpm on CentOS 5.5

Posted on February 1, 2011 by joecrow

I recently learned that python setup.py can be used to build a rpm using the bdist command.  Since we’re using puppet to manage installed software, this makes it really easy to add python modules to a bunch of servers. During the … Continue reading →

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Moving wordpress blog to lighttpd

Posted on January 15, 2011 by joecrow

I’ve moved my wordpress blog from a hosted account on godaddy.com to a server that’s running lighttpd on ubuntu. The move was more complex than I expected, so I thought I’d share some details for others… I already had lighttpd … Continue reading →

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JAVA_HOME on Mac OS X

Posted on October 8, 2009 by joecrow

I was working on configuring HBase to run on my Mac OS X machine, and I ran into a hiccup setting up the JAVA_HOME environment variable. Eventually, I determined that there’s a “Home” directory inside of each Java Framework. So, … Continue reading →

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What to Take to an Ultimate Frisbee Tournament

Posted on October 2, 2009 by joecrow

I’ve had this list scribbled on the back of a receipt for months, and thought I should commit it somewhere more permanent.  Hopefully it’s of use to someone out there! The basics Underwear (x3-4) Towel Socks (x4, two-pair each day) … Continue reading →

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Aliases and colorful ls in Mac OS X

Posted on June 20, 2009 by joecrow

At work, we use svn as a code repository and svnmerge for branch management.  A coworker who recently switched to Mac asked me how he could assign a global variable so that he could run the svnmerge command without specifying … Continue reading →

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