Category Archives: Coding

Merging Filesystems Virtually Under Apache

Posted on January 4, 2012 by M@

Synopsis This is rather old code, but saved my bacon more than once. Runs under Apache with Mod_Perl, and “merges” any number of filesystems. You’ll see the @docroots array that takes a list of “document roots”. These all need correct … Continue reading →

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Open Response to Open Letter to the Netatalk Community

Posted on July 7, 2011 by M@

I can’t help but notice that you seem to think yourself above some pretty important facts with the coup you appear to be attempting towards Netatalk. First, and most importantly, while there are currently only a small handful of devs, … Continue reading →

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Dear MongoDB

Posted on June 16, 2011 by M@

Dear MongoDB, I would like to use the positional operators you have for updates, ala ‘user.$.name’, in the field selectors for queries, ala find({“user.name”: “Matt”},{“user.$.address”}) such that I can see only the fields of that sub-document/sub-object in my return data … Continue reading →

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SmartMenu

Posted on May 10, 2011 by M@

Case: Large menu system where different users use different items more often than others. Some spend 80% of their time in <5% of the options, some spend 60% of their time in the least used 10% of the options. Problem: … Continue reading →

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A Perl Thread-Pool

Posted on February 24, 2011 by M@

UPDATED: 9/5/2013 to use better Thread::Queue::dequeue_timed in lieu of sleep. I’ve been doing a lot of large-system coding with Perl ithreads lately.  This thread model has been scaling very well on very high-throughput operations in conjunction with well-placed yield() calls … Continue reading →

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[ANNOUNCE] CopyFS 1.3M

Posted on February 14, 2006 by M@

[UPDATE: There is a newer version of CopyFS available] CopyFS 1.3M is a non-official branch of the CopyFS filesystem for FUSE. v1.3M should be considered an “advanced beta”. As it is a FUSE filesystem, faults in the filesystem cannot cause … Continue reading →

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CopyFS is now even cooler

Posted on February 12, 2006 by M@

[UPDATE: There is a newer version of CopyFS available] Some backstory: I used to write a LOT of code in the C programming language. I used to be actively involved in numerous open-source programs that used C. Hell, I even … Continue reading →

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