AppFog command line tool support for Jetbrains IDEs

November 26, 2012

If you use AppFog and develop using IntelliJ IDEA, PhpStorm, RubyMine, PyCharm or WebStorm, this command line tool configuration file can make your job a bit easier. The next version of IntelliJ IDEA (v12) will have integrated support for CloudFoundry and I guess that means AppFog too, however the current version 11 has no such [...]

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Apache segmentation fault after enabling SSL

November 22, 2012

If you use the Zend Server (CE) PHP distribution on Debian/Ubuntu, apparently there is a conflict between PHP’s curl extension and Apache’s mod_ssl, resulting in a segmentation fault (crash) upon starting Apache. The easiest solution is to disable the curl extension, if you don’t need it (by default, this can be done by commenting the [...]

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Weekly review: Week ending July 14, 2012

July 14, 2012

It’s been almost a year since I wrote my last weekly review here – and I can’t promise to write one next week either. Shame on me, but I am sitting in a train bound back home, after returning 3 of our special needs kids back to their father – they have been with us [...]

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Make Bing Desktop search Google

July 5, 2012

Microsoft recently released Bing Desktop. If you like their idea of having web search handy all the time, but prefer to search with Google, read on. I made a small extension for Chrome – all it does it redirecting search queries from Bing Desktop to Google. This only works if Chrome is your default browser! [...]

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Hiring on freelance sites

June 11, 2012

Thanks to another blog (unfortunately I can’t remember where I read it) I have begun asking for “catch phrases” in job offerings on freelance sites. A “catch phrase” can be as simple as adding the sentence “Please mention ‘yellow dragon’ in your application” to your job description – which can be used to wield out [...]

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Weekly review: Week ending August 5, 2011

August 6, 2011

Plans from last week: Work [X] Frontend design on new subscription pages – still in progress (MM) [X] Taxes (CC) Switched from Amazon to SendGrid for transactional mails (MM) Verified backup scripts – tracked a problem with JungleDisk down to a failing post-backup script due to an expired license (Amino, MM) Changed WYSIWYG editor in [...]

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