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How To Daemonize PHP-FPM on Mac OS-X Mountain Lion with Brew 25 Aug 2012 | 07:39 pm
One of the easiest ways to install/upgrade PHP on Mac OS-X is using brew. In the current version, if you install PHP 5.3 or 5.4 via brew using FPM, the php-fpm launcher installs in the foreground mode...
Branching in Git with Remote Tracking 3 Aug 2012 | 11:23 pm
Problem: we would like to set up a new branch off of an existing branch in a remote and make sure local/remote tracking is set up properly. In this example, our remote is Github and we are trying to ...
Async Data Loading in Knockout.js Without the "Callback "Hell" 9 May 2012 | 06:01 pm
Knockout.js is a beautifully implemented MVVM Javascript framework that makes creating highly dynamic, modern, Ajax-driven user-interfaces a breeze and almost completely removes the need to directly m...
Why Google Is Wrong To Obsess About Facebook 30 Apr 2012 | 10:12 am
I closed my Facebook account several months ago and have since enjoyed time not spent on the social network, spending it much more productively and enjoyably elsewhere. Now, for full disclosure: being...
Installing Mosh on Debian Squeeze and Mac OS-X Lion 10 Apr 2012 | 03:34 pm
Mosh is a nifty, UDP-based client-server utility that greatly improves SSH connection's reliability and usability, especially on flaky connections or if you need to jump on/off VPN, change IPs etc. Y...
City-Level Geo IP Location Detection In PHP and Apache 22 Feb 2012 | 11:47 pm
Following is a quick set of instructions to set up city-level location detection using Maxmind's GeoIP library using Apache/PHP. There're multiple ways to do it. Frankly the trickiest part is figurin...
Plea For Better Responsive Web Design Support In Browsers 5 Feb 2012 | 09:52 am
Responsive Web Design [ http://bit.ly/f6TPB7 ] is an extremely important approach/technique/movement for making web mobile-friendly. Given that web mobile traffic is exploding and there were more smar...
Agile Code - Design for Refactoring, Not Maintenance 21 Jan 2012 | 03:31 pm
Couple things happened today (Friday, of all days): My old blog hosting company sent a "we are shutting down" notice. Out of curiosity I clicked through and quickly found myself reading 5-year old po...
APC on OS-X: PHP Fatal error: Unknown: apc_fcntl_unlock failed 28 Dec 2011 | 09:18 am
APC 3.1.9 has a nasty bug, causing a frustrating error: "PHP Fatal error: Unknown: apc_fcntl_unlock failed: in Unknown on line 0" to appear when installed with PECL on Mac OS-X (and reportedly on a va...
Weird "exec: 179: : Permission denied" Error When Installing Elastic Search 3 Nov 2011 | 01:35 am
Elastic Search is a fantastic, clustered search server built on top of Apache Lucene search engine. It's very easy to install and configure. However, on some servers, if you follow instructions (whic...
