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Archive for November 28th, 2018

UptimeRobot is written in PHP and runs on IIS

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/11/28

In [WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers‏ @jpluimers: Every now and then editing @uptimerobot entries failed. Just “HTTP Error 503.4 – Service Unavailable The FastCGI pool queue is full” 1/2 I found out that UptimeRobot:

is written in PHP
runs on IIS
uses the FastCGI protocol

There is also a maintenance page at uptimerobot.com/maintenance.php#tvMode [Archive.is] and uptimerobot.com/maintenance.php?c-e [Archive.is]. If you get to those, then retry in ~10 minutes as sometimes it takes that long for an update to be processed.

Sometimes setting up multiple Android devices for the same uptimerobot account can be a bit of a hassle: [WayBack] Uptime Robot on Twitter: “Once logged in to the account from another Andriod device, that device will be added as an alert contact too.… “.

All in all it is still a nice tool (:

–jeroen

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Posted in *nix, Development, IIS, Monitoring, PHP, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Uptimerobot, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

A few observations on Python while I made my first steps into it

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/11/28

A while back, I made my first steps into Python.

Coming from a mixed language back-ground (including Pascal, Delphi, C#, SQL, batch files, PowerShell, bash, C, Java) it was an interesting experience.

A few observations:

It’s a [WayBack] line oriented language.
I secretly think that’s the reason there are no multi-line comments in Python, but Guido never gave a reason, just that you can use multi-line “”” or ”’ strings for them: [WayBack] Why doesn’t Python have multiline comments? – Stack Overflow
Multi-line strings can end up in generated documentation or mess with your indenting. So putting a comment # octothorp in front of each line is recommended. [WayBack] Comment out a Python code block – Stack Overflow
Most code editors have a shortcut for multi-line comments. Atom.io has Ctrl-/ for it. [WayBack] Commenting out code blocks in Atom – Stack Overflow
The pass statement is your [WayBack] no-op friend (via [WayBack] What’s a standard way to do a no-op in python? – Stack Overflow).
Though Python supports the subclass-the-Thread class for multi-threading [WayBack] multithreading – Stopping a python thread running an Infinite Loop – Stack Overflow
- The idiom however seems to wrap the thread into a function instead of [WayBack] multithreading – Overriding python threading.Thread.run() – Stack Overflow
Though the built-in data type bool is lower-case, the False and True built-in constants start with a capital [WayBack] 4. Built-in Constants — Python 2.7.13 documentation
Lots of idioms are centered around key/value or name/value pairs.
It has two ways of formatting/aligning strings, which is OK as I hate re-inventing wheels [WayBack] Python spacing and aligning strings – Stack Overflow and [WayBack] 5. Built-in Types — String Formatting Operations
There is a huge number of [WayBack] Python standard libraries.

More observations likely to follow.

–jeroen

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