Development
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Jun 11
Call for hardware: got router lab?
For my RANROD project I am looking for funky networked devices to play with. RANROD is a RANCID-like network device configuration backup utility with version control. There are various emulators I am using, such as Cisco On Unix (IOU), Juniper Olive and some others, but I would like to add support for more devices. If [...]
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Apr 11
Moving to nginx/php5-fcgi/supervisord
Some collegues have been pushing me to try out nginx. I hesitated for quite a while, but I figured to see and try it out. Coming from apache one could just lazily install mod_php and mod_wsgi for all PHP and Python needs, in nginx you need a bit more complicated setup. Running PHP, welcome supervisord [...]
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Mar 11
Speed up RoundCube webmail
We have been using RoundCube webmail on various occasions, it’s a good looking, intuitive webmail interface with all the fancyness you can expect from a modern webmail client. RoundCube can, at time, be a bit sluggish with all the features enabled. You can speed up RoundCube quite a bit. Proxy IMAP connections With the IMAP [...]
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Jan 11
MooTools Twitter ticker
For some projects I needed a single-line Twitter ticker, I found a great implementation by Scott Kyle for MooTools 1.2, here is a working version based on the JSONP protocol for MooTools 1.3: Using the Request.Twitter class An implementation might look like this:
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Dec 10
Google Chrome Profiles
Sometimes a single profile for your web browser won’t do. You might want to create a webcast, test an extension, or maybe you want it because you can. Whatever your reason might be, you can use the following snippet to start an instance of Google Chrome with a fresh profile. It’s currently built for Mac [...]
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Oct 10
P!xl: Pixel art
So, some of you might remember the online pixel-editor I once wrote, it’s back online thanks to Lasert who was generously enough to offer me project hosting. Have fun, and I am looking forward to your creations! For the curious, here are a few examples:
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Oct 10
Content Delivery Network: a poor-mans guide
So, keeping up with the latest buzz, I started wondering how I could set up my own CDN, or Content Delivery Network. Virtual Private Servers, or VPS, are getting cheaper every time (check out this 99ยข offer), starting at an average rate of $5 for an entry-level server. Looking at the tools and techniques at [...]