Fresh Blurbs by Irakli Nadareishvili

We live in interesting times.

Vagrant is a very handy command-line tool for managing virtual machines (VMs) and orchestrating consistent developer environments across a team of developers.

This comment was written in response to a blog post by Fred Wilson.

It never fails to fascinate how differently do Open Data practitioners look at APIs, compared to applied API practitioners (i.e. people who build APIs for specific business needs).

A list of necessary, if not always sufficient, steps for inventing something new and valuable: Obsess.

Woke up this morning to this tweet from Hacker News: Lessons learned from my failed startup after 2 years, 300 users and 0 revenue http://t.co/MowOCvwOjR — news.yc Popular (@newsycombinator) December 31, 2013 Despite the somewhat cliché title, it ended-up…

The appearence of a text can have significant impact on our ability to: comprehend, enjoy or even be willing to finish reading the text.

The relationship of the web APIs and the World Wide Web (the medium) has been complicated, to say the least.

Programming language Go is one of a handful of popular, new ones aimed at modernizing conventional programming style established by C++ and Java.

Due to the explosive growth of the volume of the data we operate on, Big Data has been an increasingly hot topic for the past several years.

Following is a transcript of a talk that was given at NodeSummit conference in San Francisco, in December 2013.

Credit: this blog post was inspired by and CSS styles for it were shamelessly ripped off of: Smart Quotes for Smart People website by Jason Santa-Maria.

Following is a transcript of a talk that was given at the APIStrategy and Practice Conference in San Francisco, in October 2013.

RapidSSL wildcard certificates are a relatively affordable (compared to most of its competition) wildcard SSL certificates that can be used to deploy HTTPS services using SSL encryption for any subdomains of your domain.

Organizations that take their tech teams down the “Everything is a Web Service” (à la: Jeff Bezos and Amazon Web Services) architectural route, often and quickly find that such approach can lead to a number of problems: uncontrolled explosion of the number

New York Times’ Snow Fall story has been a whopping success in attracting spotlight.

Note: if you are too impatient to read the whole thing, feel free to jump to the TL;DR Summary Why do we need this?

HipChat is a very nice chat software by Atlassian.

Google Glass is probably the most polarizing tech gadget being discussed.

For programmers accustomed to conventional Object-Oriented languages, such as: Java or C++, JavaScript’s Object-Oriented implementation can often be confusing.

TL;DR git config --global push.default tracking Full Story GitHub Pages are public webpages freely hosted and easily published through github.com.

One of the easiest ways to install/upgrade PHP on Mac OS-X is using brew.

Problem: we would like to set up a new branch off of an existing branch in a remote and make sure local/remote tracking is set up properly.

Knockout.js is a beautifully implemented MVVM Javascript framework that makes creating highly dynamic, modern, Ajax-driven user-interfaces a breeze and almost completely removes the need to directly mess with HTML DOM, thus drastically decreasing the comp…

I closed my Facebook account several months ago and have since enjoyed time not spent on the social network, spending it much more productively and enjoyably elsewhere.

Mosh is a nifty, UDP-based client-server utility that greatly improves SSH connection’s reliability and usability, especially on flaky connections or if you need to jump on/off VPN, change IPs etc.

Following is a quick set of instructions to set up city-level location detection using Maxmind’s GeoIP library using Apache/PHP.

Responsive Web Design http://bit.ly/f6TPB7 is an extremely important approach/technique/movement for making web mobile-friendly.

Couple things happened today (Friday, of all days): My old blog hosting company sent a “we are shutting down” notice.

APC 3.1.9 has a nasty bug, causing a frustrating error: “PHP Fatal error: Unknown: apc_fcntl_unlock failed: in Unknown on line 0” to appear when installed with PECL on Mac OS-X (and reportedly on a variety of Linux platforms).

Elastic Search is a fantastic, clustered search server built on top of Apache Lucene search engine.

It’s not always easy, in PHP, to figure-out which PHP ini files are actually parsed and loaded.

I like Espresso from MacRabbit for server-side scripting a lot.

With the increasing popularity of server-side Javascript, you may want to have Javascript everywhere.

It’s a pretty common need to format an array as a proper comma-delimited string for use in SQL’s “WHERE … IN” clause.

Following is a step-by-step guide to installing the latest CouchDB release on Debian Squeeze from sources.

“REST vs.

If a server running MongoDB crashed or MongoDB did not get to shut down cleanly for some other reason, you may not be able to start Mongo again, getting “exception in initAndListen std::exception: old lock file, terminating” error in Mongo error log.

Let’s start with setting up a developer account.

Debian Lenny only provides Git 1.5.x out of the box, which is a pretty old git version.

We start by installing dotdeb APT repository to get easy access to the latest .deb packages for some of our components like NginX, PHP stack etc. $ sudo su - # echo "deb http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all" >> /etc/apt/sources.list # echo "deb-src http:…

Following instructions were tested on a RackSpace Cloud Server.

Default bash prompt is limited.

*Update*: Brew packages have changes so new way of getting things done:\ > brew tap josegonzalez/homebrew-php > brew install php53 --with-mysql --with-fpm > brew install php53-apc *Older instructions*: I am not a fan of MAMP, XAMPP or other pre-packaged…

There are many benefits of using JRuby with Rails, among others: great thread-support via JVM, easy integration with the vast amount of functionality provided by existing Java libraries, streamlined database access and deployment.

Make sure you have epel Yum repo installed, if you don’t: $ sudo rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm Please note that the above instructions are for a 64-bit architecture, on a 32-bit architecture: $ s…

Drupal uses extended version of SimpleTest for automated testing.

This tutorial assumes that you are working with the local account on CentOS 5.x and sudo into root as necessary.

If you ever need to create a Drupal core patch, you may need to check-out main branch of the appropriate version.