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So I’ve gone live with a static site using Pelican. Originally I had kicked off my attempts at a static site using Mynt, which I detailed here. There really wasn’t anything wrong with Mynt, it just didn’t feel right to me after having trying to use it.

For today’s adventure I’ve decided to finally get my hands dirty with Heroku. I’ve know about it for a while now, and have gone so far as reading some of the documentation, however I’ve never actually tried using it. So today, I decided to change that.

NOTE: It was pointed out to me that while ZenPacks are technically eggs, it is not always safe to promote them as a standard Python module, which is why you don’t see more ZenPacks on PyPi.

So read on if you are curious about how it might work, but please don’t make this part of your standard ZenPack release process.

Some notes on my first attempts at doing details debugging and troubleshooting of WinRM

I wanted to do some testing on a Zenoss BIG-IP ZenPack I wrote today, and I didn’t have the access to a test box that I had when I initially wrote it. So I decided I’d give the BIG-IP LTM VE a whirl.

The issue I was having is that the Cloud Zoom enhanced image was being displayed in front of my drop down menu as well as my modal dialog box. At first I had only noticed the issue on the drop menu, and was having a hard time figuring out what was going on, and thought perhaps I had done something wrong on the superfish menu. Once I noticed it was also affecting my modal dialog, I became suspicious of cloud zoom.

A quick chronicle of my journey to install Apache Traffic Servers on Centos 5.7. In the end it ended up being a lot easier than I was expecting, given how sporadic and incomplete the documentation on their site is.

If you are here, you probably already know what Varnish is, but in case you don’t….https://www.varnish-cache.org/

Varnish Cache is an open source, state of the art web application accelerator. It is installed in front of your webserver where it will cache the content, resulting in a huge performance boost.

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This took me far longer than it should have, and while I’d like to blame shotty documentation and sparse examples it was probably my own stupidity causing the issue. Whatever the case maybe I wanted to jot down my results as I’m sure I’ll need to do this again.