February 2012
3 posts
My New soldering Station, the Aoyue 968A
First thing to deal with is the noise produced when you turn on either the smoke sucker or the hot air gun. It’s stupid loudm but it turns out there’s an easy fix. On the bottom of the unit there is a screw with a circle formed around it in the sheet metal. Mine had some red wax or something on it. That screw needs to be removed. Here’s a picture of the hole that needs to be...
Feb 22nd
lein error: "Unable to read the metadata..."
Suddenly I started getting lots of errors when doing lein deps They said “Unable to read the metadata” in files like ~/.m2/repository/org/twitter4j/twitter4j-core/2.2.5-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata-clojars.xml The files that the errors referenced were empty. I removed the repository/ directory from ~/.m2/ and retried lein deps. All is well again.
Feb 11th
Seeing Storm in Action
I’m going to run through using storm-deploy to deploy a remote cluster in AWS. Then I’ll use storm client to attach to that cluster, submit a topology, and see what there is to be seen in the storm UI. Hopefully, we’ll get some speed metrics out of this. cd ~ mkdir .pallet/ vim .pallet/config.clj [paste in code from  https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm-deploy/wiki] [replace...
Feb 10th