Category: Software
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jqGrid in TurboGears2 Admin Screens
I wanted to use the jqGrid for my admin pages as I liked that look and it matches some of the other screens outside the admin controller. The admin controller, or rather the CrudRestController out of tgext.crud, has a way of exporting results in json format. So surely its a matter of changing the TableBase…
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pidof moving to procps
pidof is a program that finds the PID of a named program. In some ways it is like a cut-down pgrep found in the procps package. pidof currently sits in sysvinit-tools. There are plans to move all utilities that use the proc filesystem under one package which will make the maintenance of them simpler, which…
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Step or Sloping Graphs
Even though the backend of Rosenberg NMS uses rrdtool RRD files, the front end graphs are created using jqPlot. The idea is to have a set of templates for the different types of graphs and just apply them to the various data sets. It makes things a lot simpler for new graphs because you just…
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props-ng 3.3.8
Procps-ng 3.38 was released yesterday. Besides the bug fixes,there have been two main enhancements: NUMA and systemd support. top comes with NUMA support which is a soft dependency, meaning that if compilied with the support, top will try to link at runtime to libnuma. The new key presses are ‘2’ and ‘3’ which will show…
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procps-ng 3.3.7 Released
procps-ng version 3.3.7 was released today. It has some new and interesting features in the top program that Jim has been busy working on. There is a new filter feature which can exclude fields that match a value for example. The remainder of the changes are small bug fixes and getting the compile warnings count…
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python and rrdtool
RRDTool is a neat utility for collecting and graphing statistics such as server loads or network traffic. There are two main modules for interfacing with RRDTool files within python; rrdpython and pyrrd. rrdpython is the basic bindings of the rrdtool library within python. The API is very familiar for people who program in C or…
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Bootstrap – The hidden gem in Turbogears
I’ve been trying to tidy up my Mako templates within my Turbogears 2 project. As part of that I was looking at some of them that are quickstarted including one which is the About page. What was curious was there was all this CSS work all done already for you, including icons. Digging further I…