Author Archives: Mark

A model for writing Puppet Modules

There are too many Puppet Modules out there that suck, says Tim Sharpe. Read more »

Perl WWW::Mechanize test fails – odd address for HTML::Daemon->new(LocalAddr =>)

This has me scratching my head. Read more »

Puppet 2.7.9 & Facter 1.6.4 released at OpenCSW

I’ve ramped Puppet and Facter to be the latest versions at OpenCSW. Read more »

OS X Lion Mail app corrupts attachments

I’ve had the Mail app on OS X Lion crash a few times on me lately. Read more »

Creating VMware ESXi virtuals using the Perl SDK

I’ve been tinkering with the Perl SDK for VMware this last week. Read more »

VMware Perl SDK error “Server version unavailable..”

Whilst working with the VMware Perl SDK this morning I came across this error: Read more »

The Puppet Cookbook is out

John Arundel‘s excellent Puppet Cookbook has finally been released. Read more »

Is Perl a legacy language?

I’m rather fond of Perl. Read more »

Setting up sudoers with Puppet and Augeas

Since Augeas became available within Puppet it’s been considerably easier to do inline edits of configuration files – providing there’s a lens, of course. Read more »

Errors exporting Keynote presentations to PowerPoint

I generally write any presentations I do in Keynote. Read more »