bidpricecheck rocks!

Nothing can be better than knowing the bottom line when bidding.

Well, http://www.bidpricecheck.com/ just serves. It works like a charm so much that you even feel like cheating. But hey, you aren't!

Update: it only seems fair to mention the blog that originally drew my attention of BPC - http://b.gkp.cc/2011/01/30/bid-hotel-room-with-priceline-and-hotwire/.

Nova metadata service with Neutron

Neutron has been pretty much a mystery to me until recently when I decided I'd give it some serious time and figure it out. I'm still in the process. But by reading these 3 fine blogs I dare say I've got some ideas how metadata works with Neutron.

http://vietstack.wordpress.com/2014/09/27/introduction-of-metadata-service-in-openstack/
- This one mainly illustrates metadata service with dhcp agent. Nice drawings by the way.

http://techbackground.blogspot.com/2013/06/metadata-via-quantum-router.html
- This one tells the story about metadata service with l3 agent.

http://kimizhang.wordpress.com/2014/11/11/how-to-use-meta-data-service-for-vm-with-provider-network/
- This final piece deals with a more practical scenario where provider network is needed.

Online Text Manipulation Tools for Developers

This is a really cool website, containing stuff like formatters, validators, code minifiers, string escapers, encoders and decoders, message digesters, web resources, etc. I ran into it the other day from a search of JSON formatters, but it turns out to offer so many more.

http://www.freeformatter.com/