… which according to VentureBeat and various media outlets is a Dropbox competitor that “allows you to seamlessly drag and drop files from your computer to the cloud with little work“. Not!
Guess what, it’s about file synchronization. File. Synchronization. Fully-fledged both-ways file syncing from all my laptops and devices ...Google: sorry, but Lisp/Ruby/Erlang not on the menu
Yes, language propaganda again. Ain’t it fun ?
Here comes a nice quote from the latest Steve Yegge post (read it entirely if you have the time, it’s both fun and educational – at least for me). So, there: I made the famously, horribly, career-shatteringly bad mistake of trying to ...Java going down, Python way up, and more …
According to O’Reilly Radar, sales of Java books have declined in the last 4 years by almost 50%. C# is selling more books from year to year and will probably level up with Java in 2008. Javascript is on the rise (due to AJAX, for sure) and PHP is ...
Nasty WordPress template scam
Moving my blog to the WordPress platform, I wanted to install a template somewhat nicer than the default. This is how I discovered a potentially very harmful stunt which some blackhats are pulling in free WordPress templates. What they do is build sort of “template farms” where they keep a ...
Programming is hard – the website
A newcomer in the world of “code snippets” sites in programmingishard.com. Although the site is a few months old, only recently it started to gain some steam. Unlike its competition Krugle and Koders, this is not a code search engine but a snippet repository entirely tag-based, user-built. The author ...
Monitoring memcached with cacti
Memcached is a clusterable cache server from Danga. Or, as they call, it a distributed memory object caching system. Well, whatever. Just note that memcached clients exist for lots of languages (Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl) – mainstream languages in the web world. A lighter version of server was rewritten in ...
Monitoring Windows servers – with SNMP
UPDATE: Did you knew there’s an official Cacti guide? Find it at Cacti 0.8 Beginner’s Guide
My previous article was focused on Linux monitoring. Often, you’ll have in .... For more info about SNMP please don’t hesitate to take a look at Essential SNMP, Second Edition
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Unicode in Python micro-recipe : from MySQL to webpage via Cheetah
Very easy:
- start by adding the default-character-set=utf8 in your MySQL configuration file and restart the database server - apply this recipe from Activestate Python Cookbook (“guaranteed conversion to unicode or byte string”) - inside the Cheetah template, use the ReplaceNone filter: #filter ReplaceNone\${myUnicodeString}
#end filter
in order to prevent escaping ...Monitor everything on your Linux servers – with SNMP and Cacti
UPDATE: Did you knew there’s an official Cacti guide? Find it at Cacti 0.8 Beginner’s Guide
Two free open-source tools are running the show for network and server-activity monitoring ...Aggregating webservers logs for an Apache cluster
One of the ways of scaling a heavy-traffic LAMP web application is to transform the server into a cluster of servers. Some may opt to walk on the easy path by using an overpriced appliance load balancer, but the most daring [and budget-restrained] will go for free software solutions such ...