WordPress login widget redirect prevention
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before, but WordPress has become my favourite open source tool ever. There is very little that you …
Basic Auto Scaling configuration on AWS
Auto Scaling The following configuration allows me to sleep at night. It ensures that at least one EC2 instance will be running at any one time. ?The …
Create AMI image of an EC2 instance store volume
For my reference, these are the steps involved to create an AMI image backup of an Instance Store EC2 volume. 1. Install AMI tools. Might need to …
Installing Python MySQLdb on OS X Lion
Tonight I tried installing a Python MySQLdb module, but when I ran the setup I got the following error: sh: mysql_config: command not found Traceback …
Compile PHP pcntl module on OS X Lion
I had some trouble compiling pcntl PHP module on OS X Lion so I thought I’d share this solution. In fact, you can use these steps to compile …
MySQL cursors in stored procedures
I’ve wanted to write a few stored procedures in MySQL for a while now, but I found it very fiddly and was unable to come up with one very …
Internet Explorer for Mac – IE6, IE7, IE8, IE9, IE10 and IE11
Internet Explorer for Mac Are you looking to install?Internet Explorer for Mac??Today I discovered a nice tool on Github which installs free Windows …
opendiff and FileMerge on OS X
Today I discovered opendiff tool that’s native to OS X – provided you have installed the Xcode on your system. It allows you to compare 2 …
Bandwidth throttling on OS X
I’ve been using Charles HTTTP Proxy for bandwidth throttling and network monitoring in general. It’s a great little tool, but when it …
bash script useful tips
I’ve spent last 2 days scripting virtual server deployment on Amazon cloud. For my reference, these are some useful commands I had to use to …
apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed for mydomain.com
I recently changed my ISP from Optus to TPG and when I tried to start my local apache instance and I got this error httpd: apr_sockaddr_info_get() …
AES-128 padded encryption/decryption with Railo, Java and AS3
I’ve recently been working on text file decryption using Railo server. My files were encrypted in ActionScript 3 with the powerful AES-128 …