System administration is a special are of IT. It also has a special place in my heart. It is an interesting mixture of all the other disciplines, both common across the whole industry, and at the same time unique for each person, company, and geographical location. When I have something to say or share about system administration, I use this category.
StackOverflow, the greatest online resource for developers, has announced the availability of the StackOverflow for Teams. This is a spin off service which allows developer teams to run private instances of StackOverflow for knowledge and information sharing needed for non-public projects.
This sounds like a great tool to replace a variety of missing and outdated information in wiki’s, README files, and emails that every software project eventually gathers.
AWS Developer Blog ran this post a while back – “PHP application logging with Amazon CloudWatch Logs and Monolog“, in which they show how to use Monolog and Amazon CloudWatch together in any PHP application. It goes beyond a basic configuration of connecting the two, all the way into setting up log metrics, etc.
Mailtrap is a handy service for any developer or team that needs to test outgoing emails from test and staging environments, without spamming real users. It’s basically a fake SMTP server with some controls of where and how to forward messages, and ways of analyzing, sharing, and testing of HTML rendering.
There are very few things that make you think of time and remind you how old you are like that email that I received another day. Red Hat Bugzilla sent me an automated email about the update on the bug in Fedora 3 (!!!) that I commented on … in November of 2004. Yeah, that’s good 13+ years ago.
This is so long ago, it’s almost unbelievable. Back in those days, I was working at PrimeTel and even had a slightly different spelling to my surname. Oh, boy.
Here are some very exciting news from the WordPress fronts: WordPress 5 will feature the built-in Gutenberg project. Gutenberg is a complete rebuilt of the WordPress administration and content publishing experience, with much faster and cleaner user interface and a whole array of new features, such as “page builder” functionality.
Here are a couple of links with more information on how to get yourself ready in time: