I just spent quite a bit of time trying to get Buildr to work on Ruby. I started with 1.9 but that did not work. All my team was using 1.8.7, but on Mac. So I started...
Archive - June 2010
Upgrading PHP: I started down this path: but found that I kept getting dependency conflicts: I finally came across this forum posting: but this still came up...
Creating a mysqldump of a MySql database with on-the-fly gzip compression
I am always amazed at some of the small things that I think would be easy to find a solution for, seem so ellusive. Today, I needed to run a quick mysqldump of a 100MB...
I am still so happy that WordPress is still so easy to upgrade. I did mine today in 5 minutes as stated.
I wish all my upgrades where this easy.
Recently I ran into issues where a web application running on Tomcat 6.0 was crashing due to load spikes in requests. What I noticed in the diagrams below, was there was...