I really hate flying. Flying has 2 major drawbacks: one, it requires uncomfortable sitting in close quarters (note: I’m 6′3), and second, it almost never has internet. On long flights, I do what any other geek would – I end up programming. Quite often, bored and internet-less programming turns into solving some problem which has been solved many times before. This was one of those problems.
I needed a quick script which could rip through a list of hundreds of urls and evaluate each url for an expected ‘200′ response value indicating that the website was ‘ok.’...
The Art of Abstraction
Posted by admin in Featured Articles, Technology on March 19, 2010 | No Comments Think for a moment about the word ‘abstract’ and its definition. When you think of an object, like a table for sake of example, what image comes to your mind? Most certainly, your image is different from mine. My mental image of a table looks a lot like the dinner table I sat at while growing up, while your table may look like the one sitting in your dining room. Yet I can use the word ‘table’ in a conversation and you will instantly know what I’m referencing without knowing exactly what my version of a table looks like. We take this mental feat for granted every day as it...PulseCheck: A Simple Tool for Monitoring Server Uptime
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I really hate flying. Flying has 2 major drawbacks: one, it requires uncomfortable sitting in close quarters (note: I’m 6′3), and second, it almost never has internet. On long flights, I do what any other geek would – I end up programming. Quite often, bored and internet-less programming turns into solving some problem which has been solved many times before. This was one of those problems.
I needed a quick script which could rip through a list of hundreds of urls and evaluate each url for an expected ‘200′ response value indicating that the website was ‘ok.’...