magnetikonline | 11 years ago | on: AWS RDS: Aurora
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magnetikonline | 11 years ago | on: Google Services Down?
Hehe - currently working on a project doing exactly the same thing ;) But no client demo right now!
magnetikonline | 11 years ago | on: 3-character filename extensions
If you were going to go the whole hog, slap the entire MIME type name in the extension :) Otherwise I don't think 3-4 character file extensions have really let anyone down in the history of computing.
magnetikonline | 11 years ago | on: Announcing Docker 1.1.0
Something I asked @docker on Twitter - where are these newer builds for Ubuntu 14.04/12.04?
https://docs.docker.com/installation/ubuntulinux/
Would love to be able to move to at least the 1.0 stable.
magnetikonline | 11 years ago | on: Announcing Docker 1.1.0
It's very handy for development instances of your apps/services too. Often nicer/faster than using Vagrant if that's your bag.
Something I plugged together recently - a W3C HTML5 validator instance in a Docker container: https://github.com/magnetikonline/dockerhtml5validator proving to be really useful vs. my old method of spinning this all up in a VirtualBox instance.
magnetikonline | 11 years ago | on: PHP approach to random number generation
Stupid linkbait title. Sure WordPress, not PHP.
magnetikonline | 12 years ago | on: SSH Kung Fu
Some good tips here - I like Controlmaster/Controlpath.
Note that on the tip of ~/.ssh/known_hosts providing ssh auto completion, adding SSH server config to ~/.ssh/config will also enable auto completion.
magnetikonline | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: What does your home office look like?
Agreed - I have had one for years with adjustable T-Legs. Being over 6 foot, needed a desk I could get the height correct and they are perfect for that.
The table top is starting to get a little crappy with some of the finish bubbling off due to my constant resting of hands so will just need to purchase a new one at some point - but no real rush.
Very sturdy desk overall, it's small - but with monitor arms for 24 and 17 inch displays I have more than enough desk room for keyboard/mouse and notepad.
magnetikonline | 12 years ago | on: Using Dnsmasq for local development on OS X
I do something similar with Ubuntu 12.04/14.04 which uses Dnsmasq via the NetworkManager service. These steps help make Dnsmasq a little more useful - reading /etc/hosts and allowing it to listen on your hosts IP address for use in guest VM's
magnetikonline | 12 years ago | on: Gnome 3.12 Released
You won't even get them with 14.04LTS out of the box, but expect a PPA to fill the void once released.
Really looking forward to the final 14.04 Ubuntu GNOME release next month. I have really grown to love GNOME 3 as my desktop of choice.
magnetikonline | 12 years ago | on: Gnome 3.12 Released
Screenshot of HiDPI in action here: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/03/top-12-features-gnome-3-1...
magnetikonline | 12 years ago | on: Loading JSON with JavaScript using eval... wait Google, what?
Well supported: http://caniuse.com/json
Use JSON.stringify() and JSON.parse() - only gives issues in IE8 with an incorrect doctype (go figure?!?!).
magnetikonline | 12 years ago | on: Trival PHP string concatenation benchmarks, proving time better spent elsewhere.
For sure - it totally dwarves it. I'm not so worried about the time value itself, just which method is "faster".
magnetikonline | 12 years ago | on: Trival PHP string concatenation benchmarks, proving time better spent elsewhere.
Yeah, as I note in the docs it's pretty Trival and a quick 10 minute hack around :) Don't take it all too serious. But the last point about .NET and StringBuilder() used to hang around in my head during the dark days of my early ASP.NET development.
Not sure about the file reads, defeating string interning seemed to be the point that helped show any really difference. Quite an interesting/cool topic that.
magnetikonline | 12 years ago | on: Bash Scripting: Why didn't I start this earlier?
Author makes that point in the very first paragraph.
magnetikonline | 12 years ago | on: PHP 5.5
A nice meaty change list there. Get compiling :D
magnetikonline | 12 years ago | on: Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac
This is rather old news - but it seems it's new to some.
I put together some setup notes for Linux with Virtual Box (Ubuntu in my case) in a Gist, as I found some of the Microsoft setup notes were lacking:
magnetikonline | 13 years ago | on: A better git log
I use a slight variation to this: https://github.com/magnetikonline/dotfiles/blob/master/.gitc... more formatting/color that anything.
As noted below, tig is well worth the install for getting around your logs/diffs on the command line.
magnetikonline | 13 years ago | on: Github Announcing SVN Support
Is there an echo in here? 3 year old post.
magnetikonline | 13 years ago | on: Introducing Gmail Blue | Official Gmail Blog
One of the better pranks this year from Google - love it.
page 1
But agreed, I'm excited by this. Have had really good experiences with MySQL on RDS so far - the auto-scale of storage and ability to add read replicas with near real time sync is very cool.