Category: Web/Tech
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Moving Joomla, WordPress and other PHP/FastCGI apps to Nginx
Have you moved your site from Apache to Nginx and now your FastCGI (php-cgi/spawn-fcgi) processes die/hang/crash periodically and your users see “HTTP 502 Bad gateway” or “HTTP 504 Gateway timeout” instead of a website? I have faced this problem and found a relatively simple and robust solution. Here’s how I did it on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic…
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Informal notes from #frozenrails 2010
Thanks to organisers from Kisko Labs and the HHLinuxClub on Friday, May 7th, 2010 Finland got its first Rails conference. Conference has drawn very interesting speakers and international crowd – from Finland (naturally), Sweden, Poland, Germany, Russia and other countries. I made a few notes from selected talks on the conference. Chris Wanstrath / GitHub (@defunkt) Slides:…
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Web hosting for internet startups
A lot of companies launching their own internet services have faced the same question – where to host. Over the course of the last few months I was asked for opinion on this matter several times. While I have no definitive answer, here are some recommendations. Don’t start with maximum capacity, start small, and think…
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Setting up Ruby, Rails, Git and Redmine on Dreamhost
The task is to have: – Redmine installation on redmine.mydomain.com – Several Git repositories on git.mydomain.com with different access rights to each one This proved to be a non-trivial task. There is a number of tutorials on the net, but none of them described the full solution. So after getting it all to work, I…
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I have been hacked
Yes, for the second time in my life. First time it was still in my university years. In those times if you had internet access at home, you were priveleged. Companies were paying quite a lot of money to get a slow 28K dial-up connection, and internet providers were charging per minute, not by gigabyte.…
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Radiant CMS
Easter weekend didn’t start well – I decided to upgrade Joomla on one of my sites to version 1.5.1 from 1.0 and upgrade just totally ruined the entire site – content was lost, template wasn’t compatible with version 1.5.1. At first I thought that the reason is Dreamhost‘s automatic one-click upgrade that I used, but…
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Google Android vs. Nokia Series 60 – what would it take to build a better mobile phone?
The long awaited Google phone turned out to be just an OS. What does it mean for us, mobile software developers? Personally, I think this is great news. An open mobile platform is something that was long due to stir up the world of RIM-Windows-Symbian. Android managed to get many things right from the very…
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At last – Mozilla based browser for N800
Just a couple of days ago I was wondering when Nokia Internet Tablets will get an open source browser. So I was really happy to read today that a Mozilla based browser engine that shares the key components and extension interfaces with Firefox is available as a development version. UMPC has a brief review of…
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Safari, Safari and Opera on 3 mobile devices
Jonathan Green in his video post Browser Comparison: iPhone vs. Nokia N95 and N800 compared performance of Nokia S60 web browser, N800 Opera browser and iPhone Safari browser. Jonathan’s conclusion “my preference is for how Safari handles things over Opera” resonates with my own thoughts in “Opera Mobile vs. Nokia S60 browser – new browser…