DebugChannel.com is a great new service / downloadable server to help debug your web application. The key things are that it speeds up debugging because all your debug output can be clearly formatted and shown in the same place. So you can get debug information from php scripts or even apache error logs. This post … Read more
We have just been setting up nginx as a reverse proxy for a node server. Everything worked fine except the socket.io connections weren’t making it through. You make a reverse proxy with: However to make nginx (version 1.3.13 +) reverse proxy socket.io you should add change your configuration to: I learnt this from Chris Lea’s … Read more
I’m a fan of Ubuntu Unity, however like all desktops there a few little niggles. I wanted to change the behavior of the Ubuntu Unity application switcher. The problem is that I have multiple terminals open and I want to be able to switch between them. However the alt-tab behaviour only allows you to switch … Read more
I’m just playing around with Python Twitter Tools but given that I am new to Python, I can’t work out to set it up. Step 1: Download and unzip the files from: https://github.com/sixohsix/twitter Step 3: Install python-pip on your computer which is a tool for installiing Python software: apt-get install python-pip Step 4: Browse the … Read more
I’ve just installed SyntaxHighlighter on this blog to style the code snippets. The default font-size was too large for the website. They don’t seem to have any documention or setting to adjust the font-size. The solution is to add some custom css to your theme style:
I wanted to pipe the output of my Apache’s error logs to a Python script. To do this you need to set the a CustomLog directive in your Apache Config. Edit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default and add the following line: To read the input into Python you need to setup a non-blocking read from stdin. Obviously, this script … Read more
To make changes to a HP raid array while the server is running you need to first install the HP PSP pack. Instructions for installing this are : located here. You then need to use the “HP Array Configuration Utility CLI” called hpacucli. To show all raid array’s setup I have a HP server with … Read more
If the root user is getting mail on your server (for example from cron scripts) then it can really helpful to forward it to an external email address. There are two ways of doing this: 1) The easiest and quickest way is to make a file in the folder called /root/.forward and place your email … Read more