Setting up a SAN

Posted by declanshanaghy in Misc on January 27th, 2008

Right off the bat this SAN will host data files for FaxIt Nice. Possible expansion in the future may include e-mail and mysql storage but thats not a priority for now. Also because FaxIt Nice is a distributed application the filesystem will also need to support multiple initiators on each LUN. This immediately brings to mind Redhat Global Filesystem (GFS)
Our most likely OS will be Cent OS 5, as that is what i have decided to migrate to for all our servers in the future.

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Received Faxes Distribution Problem

Posted by declanshanaghy in FaxIt Nice on January 24th, 2008

Update 1/24/2008 4:22pm

Dear Members,

The distribution problem has been fixed, all corrupted faxes have been resent and the original charges to your account have been voided. We hope you had a productive day despite this upset.

Sincerely,
Declan Shanaghy
350 Nice Inc

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SCM Heaven – Continuous Integration

Posted by declanshanaghy in FaxIt Nice on December 18th, 2007

With the small development team we have here in 350 Nice I always pretty much dismissed the advantages of running a continuous integration (CI) server. But every now and then a build does break, and it does affect people. This weekend i explored the magical world of CI. And i only scratched the surface i know that much.

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Ghostscript problems

Posted by declanshanaghy in FaxIt Nice on December 10th, 2007

After installing JODConverter the other day i was feeling ecstatic about how we can now handle document conversion in FIN 3.0 . However upon first use i got hit with a brick in the face!

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Office Document Conversion Revitalized

Posted by declanshanaghy in FaxIt Nice on December 6th, 2007

I just found a cool new document conversion library based on OpenOffice.org. As you may know OpenOffice.org is the foundation of our office document conversion system in FaxIt Nice. We’ve been using legacy OpenOffice.org 1.3 for a long time now. It’s reliable but dated. No support for WordPerfect and ODT. This new framework will allow us to upgrade to OpenOffice.org 2.3. Wahooooo!!

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