Postgres Won't Start

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This problem has caught me out 3 times now so this post is partly just so I don't forget the cause again.

The Symptoms

Starting or restarting Postgres (with either upstart or init.d) results in a detail-less error, telling you to check your log file. You check the ...

Expanding your RAID-5 Array

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Every so often the time comes around again where I run out of space on my fileserver. Thankfully I'm using RAID-5 so expanding the array is easy enough and the wonderful mdadm utility means I can have software RAID so the expansion won't take eons.

Expanding an array ...

How to Install Raspbmc when raspbmc.com is Down

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raspbmc.com down for you? Never fear, the internet has your back.

Install Script

Copy and paste the python code (starts with #!/usr/bin/python) from here into a file and save it as install.py.

Set permissions on it: chmod +x install.py.

When you've downloaded the binary ...

How we use GitHub Flow at Incuna

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Our team at Incuna has been growing rapidly of late and like most businesses at this stage of growth we've had to come up with some development flows to cope with the influx of new Incunanauts. Currently we have three (technical) teams: Design, Front End and Back End with ...

Setup Single Sign On in Django using Google OAuth2

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We recently had our second Incuna Hack Day where Charlie and I made the decision to start breaking up the main internal site, our venerable Dashboard. It was well on its way to becoming a monolithic beast and the only thing that had stopped me breaking it up before was ...

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