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I have recently been working on fixing some personal pain-points for Docker. It came about because of a course I am taking at UConn this fall on Troubleshooting Distributed Systems - Excellent course by the way. The current issue I’m looking at is the one about logging. Yep, I somehow managed to volunteered to do this in a month with a full-time job and 4 hours a week of driving back and forth from UConn. Anyway, I needed to run a dev version of Docker in my local machine alongside the stable version. I’m on a mac running boot2docker. There are other ways to do this but I find boot2docker sufficient for almost all the work I’d want to do in this case. ...

So, I recently signed up for a Distributed Systems course at UConn (http://www.engr.uconn.edu/~mok11002/public_html/cse5095_fall2014.htm). It involves a lot of reading and writing reviews. I have always written these class assignments in LaTeX except when I have been expressedly forbidden from using it. However, there’s a whole gamut of problems with writing in LaTeX directly. Partly, you may not always be in a place where your environment is sane. So, being able to store as plaintext/markdown would be awesome. Here’s what I do for the reviews: ...

So, I finally decided to port this site to Jekyll-Bootstrap along with a bunch of other projects. There are some helper functions in Jekyll Bootstrap that I find very convenient to use. Particularly since I’m using ruby/rake all the time, it’s easier to just run the rake post command to just post whatever you need to. I’ll add a few more things in the future. Right now, I’m just testing a bunch of things and didn’t exactly pay much attention to making the site look good. ...