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Re: Remote Code Execution in Elasticsearch - CVE-2015-1427

Jesse Newland — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 12:46:45 -0000

Great writeup!

For those reading this and freaking out about a "new" vulnerability, CVE-2015-1427 was released January 31, 2015.

Re: The bike break

Jesse Newland — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:01:46 -0000

+1. I have a cold so I've been out of my bike commute routine for a few days and miss it badly.

Re: Future of Opscode Cookbooks

Jesse Newland — Wed, 11 May 2011 17:38:26 -0000

I'd love to see cookbooks maintained as separate repos too :) https://github.com/websterc...

Re: Future of Opscode Cookbooks

Jesse Newland — Wed, 11 May 2011 11:07:35 -0000

@ches hoo boy are you going to like what I'm cooking up then :)

Re: Task Lists

Jesse Newland — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:45:39 -0000

No API features? Sad panda :(

No pressure, just wanted to give you a hard time. The task lists looks awesome :)

Re: Sipping on Some Moonshine For Rails Deployments

Jesse Newland — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:22:58 -0000

Thanks Jim! I'm glad Moonshine's working out for you.

Re: Bulk Plugin Management — Your Input Wanted

Jesse Newland — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:40:39 -0000

Eric nailed this really well - being able to perform these operations on a subset of servers is critical. I think the workflow could be heavily based off of the cloning of settings from one sever to another and the 'cloud image support' you have now. Here's a workflow I'm envisioning:

* Select a list of servers to perform an operation on
* Select an operation
** Clone settings from server X
** Convert to 'cloud image child' of server X (this would be rad, so future updates to X would trickle down to Y, Z, etc for servers not originally setup as cloud images)
** Add plugin
** Remove plugin
** Replace plugin triggers (understood that it's tough to edit a set of varied triggers across many servers, replacing is easier)
** Set plugin notification recipients
** Enable / Disable Agent Checkup and Change Time Period
* Apply

Re: A little change goes a long way.

Jesse Newland — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:48:38 -0000

It'll be stressful, hectic, scary, fun, exhilarating, and exhausting all at the same time. You'll have a blast, I'm sure of it. Good luck!

And, damn, you should actually *write* more on this bloggy thing. Reblogging pictures is cool and all, but that was a good read. :)

Re: CAPTCHA in Rails – an experiment in anti-spam

Jesse Newland — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:50:59 -0000

Ditch the ImageMagick / RMagick crap and go with recaptcha: http://recaptcha.net/. I've used this plugin with great success: http://github.com/ambethia/...

Way simpler, and you'll actually help digitize books as a part of the process!

Re: Location Aware: Smart Rollout for Yahoo! Fire Eagle

Jesse Newland — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:45:06 -0000

The DangerDay instructions you linked to were from the previous iteration of the service. New instructions are here:

http://soylentfoo.jnewland.com/articles/2008/03/06/fire-eagle-location-aware-applications-without-the-hassle

Re: Location Aware: Smart Rollout for Yahoo! Fire Eagle

Jesse Newland — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:45:06 -0000

The DangerDay instructions you linked to were from the previous iteration of the service. New instructions are here:

http://soylentfoo.jnewland.com/articles/2008/03/06/fire-eagle-location-aware-applications-without-the-hassle

Re: Caption contest

Jesse Newland — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:06:06 -0000

Winer: "I invented blogging"

Scoble: "So what, I made it suck!"

Re: Feedburner bad for us?

Jesse Newland — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 23:29:38 -0000

It's pretty trivial to serve your feeds through FeedBurner in a way that makes it possible to completely and seamlessly return them to your control if the need ever arises using MyBrand or a 302 redirect. I just detailed these methods in a quick post over on my blog. It's a waste of time to sit around and be paranoid about things like this, especially when there's an easy solution :).

Re: What's New in Edge Rails: A More Flexible to_xml

Jesse Newland — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:02:00 -0000

Oh, the joys of @to_xml@. A little pattern I've been using in ActiveRecord objects to ensure that sensitive information is hidden by default from my API users and follow DRY principles at the same time is this:


  alias_method :ar_to_xml, :to_xml
  def to_xml(options = {})
    default_except = [:crypted_password, :salt, :remember_token, :remember_token_expires_at, :created_at, :updated_at]
    options[:except] = (options[:except] ? options[:except] + default_except : default_except)   
    ar_to_xml(options)
  end

This ensures all calls @to_xml@ hide the sensitive bits by default, but can be plucked out by @:only@ when needed.

Re: Ahead of my time, Real Estate blogging wise

Jesse Newland — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:37:36 -0000

LexBlog launched a real estate blog recently - http://journal.thefarmattra...

Re: Download Flash (or any other) Video on OSX with Curl

Jesse Newland — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:41:48 -0000

Step 6 can be made even easier:

curl -O "VIDEO_URL"

This will save the video with the same filename and also make funky URLs with ampersands in them work.

Re: Google Presents Code Search

Jesse Newland — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:08:16 -0000

You can sure find some interesting stuff with this...for example this search for wordpress config files. That can't be good. If you need me, I'll be auditing the security on my SVN repos...

Re: Finally (Almost): AllPeers

Jesse Newland — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:18:07 -0000

jnewland (at) gmail (dot) com

Thanks!

Re: Better mail than jail

Jesse Newland — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 12:07:03 -0000

The "regarding my skills as a technologist" section does nothing but affirm my dislike of your interviews. One would think that an accomplished technologist would research the subject of the interview, write appropriate questions that his target audience might be interested in, and keep the interviews SHORT. It is quite frankly a waste of my time to watch an entire interview of yours. Maybe that's not the 'naked conversations style', but whatever it is, this style is not effective for video interviews.

Re: A few Microsoft things…

Jesse Newland — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 01:18:08 -0000

I don't like this new MSN Search UI one bit. The results page looks very much like a mis-typed url advertisement landing page.

The Google search results are probably because of the amount of links to each one of those blogs:

Google finds only 8,300 links to http://scobleizer.wordpress..., yet finds 35,100 links to http://scoble.weblogs.com

Further, the MSN description for your blog is this:

"By the way, this blog post was published by Robert Scoble on 2/11/2006 and the only place it should appear is at http://scobleizer.wordpress... — if you are reading this post on some other URL, you .."

Doesn't help much. Google has this (for the new site):

"Robert Scoble works at Microsoft (title: technical evangelist). Everything here, though, is his personal opinion and is not read or approved before it is ..."

That's more appopriate if you ask me.

Re: Little Big Screen Proposal

Jesse Newland — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:10:40 -0000

Wow, this looks very nice. How about a web slideshow too - so people that aren't fortunate enough to be in the stands can share the UGA football experience?