At work we use Splunk to do log analysis of our frontend Apache which acts as a simple proxy to the application servers. I quite like Splunk but we were hitting our quota quite frequently when we started to include our access log to the indexed files.

Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pengolin ships with version 1.96 of ack which has been superseded by the much improved version 2. Read the ack homepage if you want to find out what is new in ack 2.

NB: Javascript is quite popular on the server-side now as well. This article however concerns itself exclusively with JS in the browser.

Setting up a Travis CI build job for a Play project isn’t quite as straightforward as I had hoped. There are some guides floating around the web telling you to download the binary distribution and execute that.

Today I had to start a little web server that prints out the HTTP requests received and I used Ruby’s WEBBrick for that.