Slug: jekyll-to-octopress Date: 2011-09-24 Title: Porting from Jekyll To Octopress layout: post

Slug: rem-by-listserv Date: 2011-09-23 Title: R.E.M. by Listserv layout: post

Slug: chrome-and-popup-windows-in-os-x-lion Date: 2011-09-23 layout: post Title: Chrome and Popup Windows in OS X Lion date: 2011-09-23 18:10 comments: true categories:

Slug: python-statsd-server Date: 2011-02-27 Title: Python StatsD Server layout: post Thanks to Joshua Frederick (github user jfred), we now have an actual Python implementation of the statsd server, so if you don’t want to install node.js (though why wouldn’t you? :-) ) you can run it all in python.

from pystatsd import Client, Server

# client usage
sc = Client('example.org',8125)

sc.timing('python_test.time',500)
sc.increment('python_test.inc_int')
sc.decrement('python_test.decr_int')

# server usage
srvr = Server(pct_threshold=90,
  graphite_port=2003, graphite_host='localhost')
srvr.serve()

Slug: node-statsd Date: 2011-02-25 Title: node-statsd layout: post

Slug: on-a-roll-statsd-from-perl Date: 2011-02-18 Title: “On a Roll: StatsD from Perl” layout: post Apparently I’m having too much fun – I’ve posted a perl client for Etsy’s StatsD on Github.

use Net::StatsD::Client;

my $client = Net::StatsD::Client->new();

$client->timing('perl_test.timing',500);
$client->increment('perl_test.inc_int');
$client->decrement('perl_test.decr_int');

Slug: pystatsd-is-now-on-pypi Date: 2011-02-17 Title: pystatsd is now on pypi layout: post (With apologies to my non-nerd readers…) Yesterday I got pystatsd pushed up to pypi (pystatsd on pypi), so you can now install it with:

% pip install pystatsd

%pip install -U pystatsd

Slug: statsd Date: 2011-02-16 Title: Statsd and Python layout: post Short version: pystatsd is fire-and-forget site metrics from python, using Etsy’s StatsD and Graphite. The brilliant devops folks at Etsy released (and posted about) an awesome little node.js-based stats server called statsd. Statsd sits in front of the Graphite metrics server, providing a simple API for applications to send stats over UDP. UDP is “old tech” but is fire-and-forget – clients don’t have to wait for a response to keep processing. I took a few hours last night (after reviewing my python socket programming) and ported Etsy’s PHP example to Python. Until (and if) it gets pulled into the main repo, yo can find the python sample client in my Github fork of statsd.

>>> from python_example import Statsd
>>> Statsd.timing('some.time','500|ms')
>>> Statsd.increment('some.int')
>>> Statsd.decrement('some.int')

Stand-alone Client

>>> from pystatsd import Statsd
>>> statsd_client = Statsd(host, port)
>>> statsd_client.timing('some.time','500|ms')
>>> statsd_client.increment('some.int')
>>> statsd_client.decrement('some.int')

Slug: related-items-for-movable-type Date: 2011-02-14 Title: Related Items for Movable Type layout: post

Slug: set-up-your-own-github-backed-notational-velocity Date: 2011-02-10 Title: Set up your own Github-backed Notational Velocity layout: post When I last posted, I described how I was using a Github-backed wiki as my notes directory in Notational Velocity (and the fork I use, nvalt). That post got some interest, so I decided to try and make the process a bit easier by creating a project for it on GitHub: Veloci-Wiki. In nutshell, once you have a github wiki checked out locally, you checkout Veloci-Wiki and pass the path to your wiki clone to the setup script:

veloci-wiki% perl setup.pl <path/to/your/wiki/clone>