Relaunch of pamoroth.de

I have been maintaining the website of a journalist friend of mine for a number of years now. It was a homegrown blog-like webpage that worked well, but lacked a number of features. As often is the case with custom software, adding new features over time becomes more difficult, and so finally, a few weeks …

Reinstalling and configuring a server with Chef

For the last few years, all the projects I’ve been working on have made extensive use of a configuration management tool called Chef. It helps you define the configuration of the servers that you manage and enables you to rebuild a server easily. If you’re using Chef, you don’t change server configuration manually, everything gets …