2011: An overview of projects & popular blogposts

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Mattias Geniar, December 29, 2011

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Since it’s the end of the year, time to make a few lists of my own. Here are my top blog articles from 2011.

Top blogposts

  1. Building your own kernel based on CentOS, ‘switchroot: mount failed. Kernel Panic.' (3.398 views)
  2. Guide: running NginX 1.0 with PHP-FPM 5.3 on CentOS 5.x (3.164 views)
  3. VMWare Converter: vmodl.MethodFault (CloneVolume Error) (2.954 views)
  4. Getting started with Git: linkpost (2.383 views)
  5. Running phpMyAdmin with APC cache enabled, fatal PHP errors (1.500 views)
  6. CentOS, Git & http-push unavailable (git not compiled with USE_CURL_MULTI) (1.387 views)
  7. Post-it wars at the office: Mario & Princess Peach (987 views)
  8. Recovering from a DRBD split-brain scenario in heartbeat (970 views)
  9. CentOS, Heartbeat, DRBD & NFS: umount failed, device is busy (840 views)

New projects

I devoted quite a bit of my spare time to a few extra projects over the last year. Some were new, others were just a continuation of the previous year(s).

  1. QuickDiff: A very simple script to take the input from 2 text-fields, and show you the difference between them in a visually appealing way. New from 2011.
  2. Mailheader Parser: Developed because the normal parsers didn’t do what I wanted. It takes the mailheaders as input, and retrieves all relevant information, and shows you the paths this e-mail went by to get to its destination. Started in 2010, extended quite a bit in 2011.
  3. Mobile Zabbix: I extended the original mobile interface for the Zabbix Monitoring tool that I started in 2010 with new items such as custom time intervals in graphs, acknowledging triggers, … Planning a complete UI overhaul in 2012 since jqTouch is letting me down.

Conclusion

So all-in-all, I’m happy with how 2011 has passed. I didn’t quite get to blog as much I would have liked to, and I couldn’t work on all the side projects as much as I would like, but that doesn’t mean I regret it.

Most of my time went to projects I worked on at Nucleus, such as a DNSSEC implementation, further Zabbix rollout (with an enormous amount of custom templates for many services), an advanced Pukkelpop (festival) cluster, many many many custom projects for clients, a lot of scalability & performance consulting and implementations and much more.

I can only hope 2012 would pass in a similar way. Oh, and if at all possible, I’d like my new apartment to finally be ready so I can move in and get started on my own. :-)



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