n00b

During a recent group debugging session at work, I was reminded about tmux. I hadn’t really used it outside of a couple of brief experiments that were little more than opening the application (and then struggling to kill it), so on this occasion I used screen. Whatever the reason, apparently now is the time for tmux! In this post, I’ll cover a few of the impediments and blessings encountered so far, since I seem to have gotten the good kind of tmux bug....

I’ve dabbled with, attended presentations for, and read about configuration management systems for quite a while. For at least the past year, every time I start up a new project I can’t help but think about all of the benefits that would ensue from wrapping my work in a managed server configuration. I decided recently to bite the bullet and dive into Puppet head. In getting started, and to keep things simple, I decided to utilize a Vagrant box running 64-bit Ubuntu 12....