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Vagrant box Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise) in a bash script

I discovered Vagrant recently,  and quickly fell in love as I realised it power and awesome.  

It's basically a wrapper over Oracle's VirtualBox (which by it's self is a great tool) but when combined with the Chef/Puppet scripts a whole new world of automation unfolds.

It will take a little time to set up your environment initially, but once it's set up it's set up for life.

Now where to find a small Ubuntu Server 12.04 vagrant box that I can trust?  Well, I couldn't find any (not even this site).  However I did find a fantastic script by Carl Crafoord that packages up a Vagrant box in a bash script.

The only teeny tiny issue is that it was build for a Mac, so I had to port it onto Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop edition and also changed it to download the ISO via torrent (transmission-cli), which is way, way quicker.


$ git clone https://github.com/just-digital/vagrant-ubuntu-precise-64.git

I've tested it but only on my local PC.  Please let me know if you have any issues.


Django developer Auckland

Developing Django in Auckland, like a boss!  

I choose Django because I've fallen deeply in love with Python.  Django, was an easy choice because it makes web development so damn sexy.  I fully agree with Django philosophies. 

Adding a bit of background;  I've been coding for over 10 years.  I was born and raised in South Africa and spent time in the UK.  I'm now living in Auckland, New Zealand together with my gorgeous wife and wee fella.

I do all sorts of coding, PHP (CakePHP), JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, HTML.  I practise coding standards and semantics. I love little gadgets and mind blowing ideas. 

I work full time at Yellow Pages Group in New Zealand but I am always available for some freelance jobs.


Django, python, through Vim.

The gist of it

The project idea came up today with the potential use for a "Business name" to domain name matcher.  So I put together a quick-and-dirty Python script to do just that:

Saying no to 1 post blogs

A fence post in the desert Image courtesy of Kuranes

The Internet has way to many single-post blogs.  Unfortunately, I couldn't find any amazing stats or info-graphics to prove this BUT we all know they are there (I have contributed at least five/six so far).

I refuse to let this blog fall to the same list of lonely, forgotten, can't-be-arsed weblogs.

And so I am motivated to write this second post, thus contributing to the web's cacophony of 2-post blogs.


Digital Agency in London

Bye bye my love. 

Don't really need a "Digital Agency in London" website anymore, since I don't live in London, and don't really run an agency either.

So I've converted it into a blog instead (It didn't take long, only a few hours - promise.  Built it on Django). 

I'll probably use this space to rant and rave and complain.  I might even put up some useful things.  Ah, who I'm kidding.

(*pst.  I'm still available for some freelance work if you need? Get me here or here.)

XKCD says it best.

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