I know I have been “missing in action” lately but I am working furiously, and I seem to have too little time for my blog
Continue readingLoomiere/Stream: Revived!
UPDATE: /1165/loomiere-2-0-1-beta-finally-out/ OK folks, things have settled down and we are good to go. After some considerations the legal concerns for Loomiere/Stream are now cleared
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Here are the plugins I recommend for use on a WordPress blog. Most (not all) of these plugins are generic, meaning that they are not
Continue reading@font-face for a programmer’s blog?
I’m sure that many of you are well aware of the exceptional @font-face CSS3 rule, which made life much easier for many designers, I would
Continue readingURI parsing using Bash built-in features
A bit of background A while ago I posted an article describing how one could parse complete URIs in Bash using the sed program. Since
Continue readingFirst impressions on Loomiere/Stream performance
UPDATE: http://vpalos.com/1165/loomiere-2-0-1-beta-finally-out/ As promised, here are some of the first monitoring statistics of Loomiere/Stream in a production environment after moving away from psstream. Only one server
Continue readingLoomiere/Stream – A high performance streaming server
UPDATE: http://vpalos.com/1165/loomiere-2-0-1-beta-finally-out/ The Loomiere (0.2.1) code is now freely available under GPLv3. Please see this post for an update. Are you killing psstream? Well, yes! I
Continue readingRecursive chmod distinguishing files from folders
Version 3 An even better method is: find “$target” -type f -exec chmod -c “$mode_files” {} \; \ -or -type d -exec chmod -c “$mode_dir”
Continue readingBash URI parser using SED
Warning! This version is now obsolete! Check out the new and improved version (using only Bash built-ins) here! Here is a command-line (bash) script that
Continue readingRecursive file/directory change-detection
Disclaimer This article explores a way in which an approximate “fingerprint” of a file tree can be created! If all you want is to detect
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