Antony Denyer

Unix has some great tools like chef to help you declaratively describe the configuration of your server. It means that you can almost guarantee the state of your servers and there’s no need to log on to each server and manually configure them, freeing up people to do more interesting... [Read More]

George Orwell - A Nice Cup of Tea Essay is often refered to. However, since the original essay was written the invention of the tea bag has changed the way most people in the England make a mug of ‘builders’ tea. This is how I make the perfect cup of... [Read More]

I’ve recently been working on a capistrano gem to help with mono deployments. I’ve had a bit of experience trying to get capistrano to work with non-rails environments, basically it can be a bit of pain if you’re not sure what you’re doing. Also most of the beginners tutorials are... [Read More]

Over the last month we’ve started using ServiceStack for a couple of our api endpoints. We’re hosting these projects on a debian squeeze vm using nginx and mono. We ran into various problems along the way. Here’s a breakdown of what we found and how we solved the issues we... [Read More]

Over the last month we’ve started using ServiceStack for a couple of our api endpoints. Here’s a breakdown of how I configured ServiceStack to work the way I like it. Hopefully you’ll find this useful. ##Overriding the defaults Some of the defaults for ServiceStack are in my opinion not well... [Read More]