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 get the job …
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() failed for …
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 algorithm. For …
Compile Apache2 from source on OS X
I’ve had to reinstall apache server on my Mac and the only way to do it cleanly was to nuke my existing apache installation and compile a fresh one from …
Extract z01 files on Mac OS X – howto
The first of multiple files that make up a split archive created with WinZip; uses the same compression as a standard .ZIP file, but must be decompressed along …
Increase PHP file upload limit
I tried uploading a large file from Flash to php back end and got the following error: PHP Warning: POST Content-Length of 18348279 bytes exceeds the limit of …
Load files from Amazon S3 into Flash using AS3 Bulk Loader
I had a go at loading some assets from Amazon S3 with AS3 bulk loader and ran into trouble. Generally I specify loader context when I load files from external …
MySQL REPLACE statement with dynamic variables
I just wrote a little mysql snippet that will replace all instances of ‘domain1’ to ‘domain2’ in a given table and column. So why not …
Unzip files with ColdFusion MX 7 using native Java classes
This week I had to unzip some files using ColdFusion 7 (I know it’s ancient technology) and I realised that CF7 doesn’t natively support …