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I have written previously regarding using
Redis for Magento session storage.
You can get the same benefits of using Redis for session storage (reduced disk
I/O, automatic key eviction) for any PHP application by making a quick change to
a couple of settings in your php.ini. I assume …
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Although I do not use Exim myself, I have clients that do. Recently, we noticed that it was taking more than 20 seconds for their SMTP banner to display when initiating checks from the monitoring server. Connecting to the server locally (on any interface IP address) did not suffer the …
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If you have ever used any tool to optimize a web page, you know that compressing
the return traffic to the client is a
big win. In nginx, this is done with
the gzip module. The
easiest thing to do is add gzip on; to the http stanza in your …
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The new year is finally upon us. Traditionally, I have not been one to make New Year's Resolutions. This year, I decided that rather than a list of resolutions, I would create a list of goals. These are things I would like to achieve over the next year. In other …
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Naturally, I ran into this problem in the middle of the night when the client was asleep and I had no access to the Magento administrative interface. The short story is that after running a re-index of the site, the home page began returning a 404 error status. A bit …
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I've got some code that generates loss reports for EVE Online. It uses the
EVE-KILL API and
Python's urllib2 library. Near
the end of October 2015, I noticed that my calls to the API were returning a
403: Forbidden error from the server. I didn't realize it at the time …
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Although I was getting this output in relation to one of my Jinja2 templates, it really isn't a Jinja2 problem.
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 69: ordinal not in range(128)
The bit of code here should be doing nothing more than printing a float …
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One of my frequently used git commands is 'git show <rev>'. As in, "show me
what the heck this guy did here." Unfortunately, Mercurial doesn't have the same
command, but it's easy enough to implement it using an alias in your .hgrc.
The command you would run from the command …
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I ran into this issue while trying to install wine-devel on my Mid 2012 MacBook
Pro running El Capitan and MacPorts 2.3.4. As the install progressed, here is the
error I got:
Error: org.macports.build for port glib2 returned: command execution failed
Please see the log file …Posted on in Programming
I've mentioned before that
empty strings in Python are false.
This leads to a common if not string paradigm. Unfortunately, this can be
problematic. Check out this snippet:
>>> string = ""
>>> if not string:
... print("empty")
...
empty
That pretty much worked out just as we imagined. The empty string returned False
and …
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The default history view in Git and Mercurial is optimized for completeness, not scanning. A compact one-line log is a better daily tool: short ID, subject, relative date, author, and branch or bookmark context. It does not replace a full graph; it makes the first pass fast enough that you …
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This is a sad story. A few weeks ago, I set my OnePlus One down on a table outside so that it would not be in my pocket while I worked on the pool. I have done enough work on the pool to know that at any moment, I might …
Posted on in Networking
For those that are really into privacy, the Privacy Extensions defined in RFC 4941 are a really good thing. This extension circumvents SLAAC and has the result of randomizing your IPv6 address. Like I said, if privacy is a big deal for you, this is definitely something you want enabled …
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It is well-documented that I am a heavy Google user. I use Gmail and Google Docs for just about everything. Additionally, I have used an Android phone since I got the HTC Dream (AKA T-Mobile G1) when it first came out.
However, I have been using OS X full-time since …
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Although I use Git all day long, I actually prefer to use Mercurial for my personal stuff. When I started working on this project to maintain slaptijack.com with Pelican rather than continuing to use Wordpress, one of the things that really interested me was the ability to keep Markdown …
