Ben Ruset on August 19th, 2007

I love Wordpress. I’ve worked with a bunch of web apps over the years, and nothing comes close to Wordpress for ease of use and cleanliness of design.
My other website, NJPineBarrens.com, uses a bunch of different web apps to run. Joomla for the content management (articles and file downloads), vBulletin for discussion forums, and PhotoPost [...]

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Ben Ruset on August 14th, 2007

We’re pretty heavy VMWare consumers at work. Each developer has a local copy of VMWare on their desktop, and we have a decent number of VMWare Servers deployed as well. It was only natural for us to want to get some form of central management system to handle the administration and performance monitoring of our [...]

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Ben Ruset on August 14th, 2007

Last Sunday I decided to give Laura a break and took Dana down to Batsto Village for some father-daughter bonding time. You can see pics in the gallery.
I was discussing Batsto with a few people and they asked what and where it is. Despite me running a rather comprehensive site about the Pine Barrens of [...]

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Ben Ruset on August 10th, 2007

Couple of things to touch on:
1. I found my first example of “why do it in Perl when shell will do it better/quicker/easier?” Consider this - njpinebarrens.com backs up it’s database and the webroot for three sites nightly to a gzipped tar file to a 40GB USB external drive. The site itself takes up a [...]

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