The World of a Penguin

I have observed that I haven't written in this blog for nearly a month. Not much has happened in the area of this blog. Some more colleges has start using Linux on their desktop. Currently I am developing an "failsafe" system for emergency handling in Java/JEE/Spring. I am now working on the second generation. I have updated a lot of crypto keys as a follow up to the nasty openssl-bug in Debian/Ubuntu. Today I listened to a talk by Martin Fowler and Jim Webber about middleware and Enterprise Service Buses (ESB). A talk well worth listen to if you are working in or close to the SOA world.

One drawback with blogger is that it can only ping weblogs.com . But I want to ping some other index sites too. One way is to go to each site and ping manually, but thats to much work. Another solution is to have a script or something that you run after each time you have written a blog entry. It hit me that blogger can send a mail each time you enter a new blog entry. So I wrote a python-script yesterday that is trigged by these mails an ping sites using XML-RPC . My script, blogping, reads a config file and ping all services listed in the config file. Then I added an email alias in my email server that run the script when a mail comes in. Last I registered the mail address in blogger. The alias looks like this in postfix: blogmail: |"/opt/local/bin/blogping.py -c /opt/local/etc/configfile" The result of the pings are logged using syslog. You can download the script from here . Run the script with the argument -h to get instructions. You do not have to trig it using mail,...

Carthik wrote before Christmas a blog note searching for other people blogging about Ubuntu . Since I were just about to start this blog I read the results with extra interest. Now that I have written a few things about Ubuntu I think it is time to pingback. I hope my English is not too bad.