8 pages tagged with "open source"
Data Persistence in the OpenTelemetry Collector
2023 January 18 - 744 words - 4 mins -
What happens if the OpenTelemetry collector cannot send data? Will it drop, queue in memory or on disk? Let's find out which settings are available and how they work!
To check how queuing works, I've set up a small test environment. This environment consists of several data sources (postgresql, col…
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Use OpenTelemetry to Auto Instrument WordPress
2022 November 01 - 1409 words - 8 mins -
OpenTelemetry is often associated with modern microservices and cloud-native applications. What happens if we apply OpenTelemetry and modern observability techniques to something completely different? WordPress is the world's most popular weblog software. And it's also an almost 20 years old monolit…
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Where is the OpenTelemetry RFC?
2022 May 24 - 184 words - 1 mins -
In one of my talks about OpenTelemetry I got a great question: Where is the RFC of the OpenTelemetry protocol? I've found the answer for you.
OpenTelemetry is a project managed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). And the foundation doesn't make standards, but specifications. They explai…
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Splunk eventgen now supports negative values
2019 February 15 - 386 words - 2 mins -
The Netherlands is a country with a lot of water. A big part of the country is even below sea level. And we even have a branch of government whose only concern is water management, water boards.
I had the opportunity to show one of the boards how their work could be more efficient, based on data. As…
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Image uploading fixed for Wordpress IOS-app
2011 January 24 - 77 words - 1 mins -
We are using Wordpress in a not so common configuration: our installation is hosted with a self-signed ssl cert, and behind http-auth. With this setup image uploading fails when using the IOS app.
I've created a patch for the app to fix this behaviour. The patch was accepted revision 1427.
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Small bug fix in wordpress plugin
2011 January 18 - 84 words - 1 mins -
In the wordpress CMS, a thumbnail can be added to a post. You have to add this thumbnail manually to a post, even when the post contains an image.
The 'Automatic Post Thumbnail' plugin automates the addition of thumbnails to posts.
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Quarters added to org-mode
2010 November 29 - 109 words - 1 mins -
Org-mode is part of the emacs text editor. It is a versatile ToDo-list manager, project planner, life manager. Org-mode has the ability to show information grouped by day, week, month or year. I added grouping by quarters to this list.
My patch is accepted and is part of org-mode since the 7.4 versi…
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InPlaceRichEditor autosize patch
2008 July 01 - 57 words - 1 mins -
In the 1.3 version of InPlaceRichEditor, a script which enables TinyMCE to be used as a edit in place editor, lives a patch I created.
This patch assures the TinyMCE editor is the same size as the text to be edited.
InPlaceRichEditor is made by Sébastien Grosjean.
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