The Codebelay Blog

Month: March 2009

  • Doing Sysadmin on the iPhone

    For checking up on sites in the enterprise, I use Alertsite. It was suggested to me by a VP I work with at McCann, Ed Recinto. It’s been a great tool.

    For personal websites that I manage, I’ve been using something I rolled in newLISP, sitebeagle. Why? Because beagles are great watchdogs.

    Very often, most problems can be solved with tweaking code, changing permissions, or upgrading and apache or mysql.

    Very often, it’s the weekend, I’m sitting in a cafe, and get an alert from Nagios or Alertsite. With iSSH, on the iPhone, I can ssh into a LAMP server and do the work I need.

    I can see things getting a bit more complex. What tools do you use to sysadmin from an iPhone?

  • Who Barce Follows On Twitter

    Herman Chan — a techie at McCann that often gives me good tech advice.

    Faris Yakob — He’s the Chief Technology Strategist at McCann Erickson and I love his blog, Talent imitates, genius steals.

    Craig Newmark — He’s the founder of Craig’s List. Craig is very involved with causes for the Craig’s List foundation.

    Chase Jarvis — He’s an excellent photographer, perhaps one of the best, that takes breathe taking photos.

    I will write more about the rest of my followers later. My plan is to add a few comments about those I follow each day.