Graham Christensen

Graham Christensen is a home-brew scientist, hardware guy, and a ruby/php developer. He loves to dabble in everything he can get himself into. Lately that means the system administration and automation.

Graham currently works at ZippyKid, working to automate the infrastructure, and to make your sites "zippier." If you like what I talk about, I want to hire you. If you disagree or are offended, they are mine, not my employer's.

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E-Mail: graham@grahamc.com
Phone: 407-670-9980

GitHub: github.com/grahamc
Twitter: @grhmc

Why a MySQL Slave Created from an LVM Snapshot Would Mark Tables Corrupt

LVM Snapshoting a MySQL server is often the quickest and most error-free method of duplicating the data from one database server to another. So how could it be that my slaves were coming up corrupted? Read more...

posted on April 19 2013

How to have two git repositories in the same directory

Managing your dotfiles with symlinks sucks, so does copy-paste. Keeping ~/ in a .git repository works for me, but I also wanted to version my .ssh/ directory, and my PGP files. Since I share my dotfiles, they obviously cannot be in the same repository. Read more...

posted on September 13 2011

How to Create a Secure Git Repository on a Shared Server

Initialize a git repository only your user can access. Read more...

posted on September 12 2011

March 27 2011

How I Use a Ship's Bell Clock to Know My Software is Broken

February 11 2011

Graham Christensen

Why a MySQL Slave Created from an LVM Snapshot Would Mark Tables Corrupt

How to have two git repositories in the same directory

How to Create a Secure Git Repository on a Shared Server

How I Use a Ship's Bell Clock to Know My Software is Broken

How to Create a Super Nerdy Super Bowl Party That Everyone Will Love or: RFID + 1,000 Chicken Wings (Wait... What?)