Fresh Blurbs by Irakli Nadareishvili

The best way to install MongoDB on yum-enabled Linux distributions (CentOS or Fedora) is through yum package manager.

In httpd.conf:\ LoadModule status_module modules/mod_status.so SetHandler server-status Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from 111.222.333.444 ExtendedStatus On where 111.222.333.444 is the IP of your server.

Got an error today I have never seen before (shocker) while trying to set up something on Debian Lenny.

If you generated your ssh key pair, did everything per instructions and still can’t log-in using the keys, you may be a victim of the most common ssh key problem: incorrect permissions.

Yum is a great update manager for RedHat/CentOS Linux.

This was not easy to track down in the documentation, but for anybody that may need it, here’s the XML list of locales supported by Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/translations/FacebookLocales.xml

Unfortunately, CentOS 5.5 comes with a very old version of Ruby: 1.8.5.

If you want to use the latest version of RubyGems on CentOS 5.x you need a later version of Ruby than what you can get from usual sources (CentOS, CentOS-Test or RPMForge Yum repos).

The very fresh and raw 0.1 version of http://loadtest.io is now available for your enjoyment.

How many times have you accidentally opened a protected file with vi, edited a whole bunch of stuff in it and only at the point you wanted to save it, have you remembered that you’d forgotten to “sudo” before editing the file?

For the [hopefully very infrequent] times when you still need to deal with CVS, in 2010, and [god forbid] fix something you messed up there, here’s how you can revert an accidental commit back to the previous version.

As I sit here on a hot, humid Friday night with my scotch and my laptop (21st century #fail), in a thoroughly air-conditioned room, I try to make myself useful.

With the VPS expansion you can now get a (very) small virtual private server (VPS) for a very affordable price.

GoogleCL is a command-line client to Google services that was released recently.

yum clean all yum clean metadata yum clean dbcache and then: yum makecache

The “git status” command only shows uncommitted changes locally.

MacRabbit’s Espresso (http://macrabbit.com/espresso/) has been my favorite editor for server-side scripting for a while now.

An absolutely awesome jQuery book: http://jqueryenlightenment.com/ It’s this simple: if you are a Web developer, you need this.

If you use Terminal application on Mac OS-X to connect over SSH, you have most probably been annoyed by closed connections.

Prerequisite: Make sure .htaccess overrides are allowed for the folder you are protecting!

Following is a handy matrix for those among us who like to indicate HTML (font) sizes in “em”s.

This step-by-step tutorial walks you through the installation of Django 1.1 with Apache and MySQL. on CentOS 5.

Ack is a recursive grep-replacement Perl script that you can download from: http://betterthangrep.com It is somewhat similar to “egrep”, but is much smarter and has ten times nicer output format.

Even though you may find xdebug in a yum repository, due to version incompatibilities you may need to compile/install it using Pecl.

Acquia and Phase2 Technology will be hosting Tattler (app) and OpenPublish™ Webinar tomorrow Wednesday, September 23, 2009 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT.

=== Originally published at: The Agile Approach === In the ’90s romantic comedy that we borrowed the title from, a chain of dramatic events take place, while the main character (played by Peter Gallagher) is in a post-accident coma.

The well-known approach for checking whether path exists, in Unix, is: “if [ -e $path ]” condition.

There has been increasing amount of complain about how Drupal is ugly or not designer friendly yadda, yadda, yadda.

Since “svn update” is a subset of “svn merge” you can use something like:\ svn merge --dry-run -r BASE:HEAD .

We all have come to love and admire jQuery for the amazing Javascript library it is.

Turn on: Preferences -> Messages -> Collect chats into a single window and restart iChat.

It is only available in the top-level theme as a variable, but in case you need to derive the same value from the View object, per se, here it is: $view->display[$view->current_display]->handler->get_path();

> perl -i -pe 's/oldname_/newname_/g' `find | grep "\.module$"` Or if you want to first check the results: > perl -pi.bak -e 's/oldname_/newname_/g' `find | grep "\.module$"` which will create backup of original files.

People who know me know that I am the last person on earth to be a Microsoft fan.

Imagine a situation: you accidentally “svn removed” an entire directory tree from SVN.

PHP error messages are quite helpful, most of the time.

OS-X Leopard comes pre-installed with a Postfix version.

If you have misfortune of having to upgrade Drupal5 website to Drupal6, there’s a very good chance that at some point you will run into a fatal error: Fatal error: Unsupported operand types in...

UPDATE: instructions for Espresso 2.0 at: http://freshblurbs.com/espresso-and-syntax-highlight-custom-file-formats Espresso From MacRabbit (you may remember them for their splendid CSSEdit eidtor) is a new Web editor, for Macs, worth paying attention to.

Blog post about the new World Bank API, how we designed it, why we are excited about it and why you could be, too: http://www.agileapproach.com/blog-entry/world-bank-api-20-launch

Drupal requires its source documentation to be compatible with DoxyGen.

A really nice extension to Drupal Forms API has been released over the weekend: Selector Element module introduces the hip awesomeness of jQueryUI Sortable widget to Drupal’s Forms API in a very easy way.

# yum install openssl # yum install openssl-devel # yum install perl # yum install perl-Net-SSLeay perl-Crypt-SSLeay # rpm --import http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc Create the /etc/yum.repos.d/webmin.repo file containing : [webmin] name=Webmin Dist…

Pattie Maes & Pranav Mistry: Unveiling the “Sixth Sense,” game-changing wearable tech

This has happened couple times, already, so I may as well blog about it.

If you are on a Wifi and both your mac and iPhone can access it, you can get free ride with controlling Keynote from your iPhone by using: Keymote, which in part uses Telekinesis iPhoneRemote.

I’ve been saying this off the record for a long time and finally I am frustrated enough to go on the record and say it out loud and without a shred of fear: professional certification, in software, is lame, means nothing at all and is a waste of everybody…

Thinking about Semantic Web, crowdsourcing and mostly after reading a recent blog post from Andy I came to believe that we need a ‘Tagipedia’ (Wikipedia for tags): a place where anybody can tag any uniquely identified web resource (URL) and thus gradually,

Default CentOS 5.2 yum repositories are still on Sybversion 1.4.x branch, so if you need the latest Subversion client, you are out of luck… or not, if you read this blog post :) This quick tutorial will show you how to upgrade in less than 5 minutes.

Pee1’s new website design is a great example of modern, user-centric, ergonomic design.