This is part three of a beginner series for people with a MySQL/PHP background. Apologies for the delay, this blog entry has been in draft since the 13th December of last year (2009). Follow these links for the previous parts: part I part II Recap Part I introduced the CouchDB basics which included basic requests using PHP and cURL. Part II focused on create, read, update and delete operations in CouchDB....
Our problem is that an application hosted on Slicehost uses an external mailserver, which is located in Europe. Since neither Slicehost/Rackspace or Cogent seem to be able to fix the situation after almost two days, here’s a quick workaround. The idea is that our relay will collect emails and send them whenever the connection permits. Postfix install This is a pretty simple: Configuration main.cf Edit /etc/postfix/main.cf (this is my entire main....
The scope of this blog entry is to give you a quick and dirty demo for start-stop-daemon together with a short use case on Gearman (all on Ubuntu). In this example, I’m using the start-stop-daemon to handle my Gearman workers through an init.d script. Gearman Gearman is a queue! But unlike for example most of the backends to Zend_Queue, Gearman provides a little more than just a message queue to send — well — messages from sender to receiver....
A small howto to get the latest redis-server and a webinterface on Ubuntu. Installation … redis should listen on localhost:6379. You may need to get i386 instead of amd64 if you run 32bit. Tweaks You may need to add the following to /etc/sysctl.conf: … that is, especially if you run in a VE (e.g. inside xen). All other configs are in /etc/redis/redis.conf. Web Because web interfaces are so simple, I decided to get redweb....
A Fan Error in this case is not when your Facebook fan page is down. I received this message after my Lenovo X61s notebook decided to quit and I restarted it. The screen said “Fan Error”, and the notebook refused to continue to the boot process. A rescue party Of course this is the last thing you want on a Sunday evening, but in true GTD fashion, I wanted to fix it right away....