Perfect development environment for remote teams
I prefer developing on remote server, since it ensures greater fidelity to the production environment plus awesome portability. I just need a terminal and my .pem key to logon to my servers from anywhere,...
Add "buzz" and Escape-close to Pidgin!
Add “buzz” and Escape-close to Pidgin!
Pidgin doesn’t support Yahoo messenger(ym) shortcuts like:
ctrl-g for buzz and
Esc for closing the window.
Being an ardent user of ym(once upon a time :P ), I was pretty accustomed to...
Configure subdomain for Mailgun in Digital Ocean
I really like Digital Ocean for its no-fuss, economical yet powerful servers.
Recently, I hit a snag trying to configure subdomain for mailgun using digital ocean's DNS settings. No matter what I did, mailgun was...
Cloning EC2 instance
Create AMI
Launch new instance
While launching new instance, you can keep instance storage low
Keep EBS storage upto your needs
If your site is located at /var/www/ and you use mod_rewrite of apache:
1. If the conf of...
Code Snippet for auto-lock feature in settings > general
An interesting snippet discovered at stackoverflow link
This enables implementing auto-lock feature like that seen in settings -> general.
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
// …
tableView.registerClass(UITableViewCell.self, forCellReuseIdentifier: "categoryCell")
}
func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("categoryCell",...
W3 Total cache 500 internal server error
W3 Total cache is a very powerful plugin and if handled properly, can improve performance of your wordpress a lot. But, at times it can lead to migraines of worst order. One such scenario...
Varnish cache 503 guru meditation
Its a frequent headache with varnish. I found the suggestions mentioned in the article
http://www.technoreply.com/solving-dreaded-varnish-503-error/
very useful. Reproducing the article here, just in case it goes offline in future:
BEFORE WE START
One of the most confusing (but...
Quickly create an FTP server on your EC2 instance
After crawling through scores of pages, found this tutorial, which works like a charm.
http://www.sigerr.org/linux/setup-vsftpd-custom-multiple-directories-users-accounts-ubuntu-step-by-step/
Couple of things overlooked in this:
500 OOPS: priv_sock_get_int
Fix: add to /etc/vsftpd.conf
seccomp_sandbox=NO
passive mode in filezilla
fix: http://sumantjsr.blogspot.in/2011/12/fix-for-sent-passive-reply-with_5945.html
Thanks for birthday wishes – 2010
Thanks for the wishes everyone! this goes to all who wished/dint wish me on my birthday :)
Logo of Tspoon
Logo of Tspoons… a graphic design studio… started by me and couple of my friends during IIT days.
