April 2009
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Apr 30th
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Restart nginx with zero downtime
Typically, when you upgrade, there is usually a short downtime while the application is restarted. However, nginx has come up with an elegant way of upgrading without any downtime by using different signals to manage the master and worker processes. The process is outlined on the nginx wiki. Essentially, the upgrade happens in the following steps: Send USR2 signal to the existing master...
Apr 29th
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WatchWatch
Human Computation This talk introduces a paradigm for utilizing human processing power to solve problems that computers cannot yet solve. Traditional approaches to solving such problems focus on improving software. He advocates a novel approach: constructively channel human brainpower using computer games. For example, the ESP Game, described in this talk, is an enjoyable online game — many...
Apr 28th
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Apr 28th
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CollabFinder - Find Other Designers and Developers and Collaborate on Awesome Projects
Apr 28th
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The Best Free Web Icon Sets - WebIconSets.com
Apr 27th
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Apr 24th
3 tags
Compiling Drizzle on Ubuntu
In light of the MySQL conference, I decided to get try to get drizzle up and running on Ubuntu 8.04. I typically try to avoid installing dependencies from source as much as possible and a little bit of Googling turned up some available libraries. The Drizzle wiki was useful in getting started but did not include all of the available packages. First, the basic dependencies: sudo apt-get install...
Apr 24th
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Apr 21st
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Best beaches in the world 23 Exotic Pictures Of Maldives | The Travelers Zone 10 Best, Architecture Award Winning, House Designs [PICS] 40+ Stylish and Trendy Icon Sets Outstanding…
Apr 20th
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50 of the world’s best food blogs - Times Online iCodeBlog A Million-user Comet Application with Mochiweb, Part 1 Writing An Hadoop MapReduce Program In Python Centreon
Apr 18th
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The Vader House by Andrew Maynard ยป CONTEMPORIST Improving Running Components at Twitter Qcon: Facebook Item-Based Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Algorithms Developing Django…
Apr 17th
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Offbeat Traveler: Jiuzhai Valley in China - Los Angeles Times
Apr 16th
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First Steps to Scala
Apr 13th
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Fastest way to uniqify a list in Python f9 nginx and symfony Message Queue Evaluation Notes - Second Life Wiki
Apr 10th
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Change TCP congestion control for Ubuntu 8.04
For some reason, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS uses ‘reno’ for TCP congestion control instead of ‘cubic’ even though upstream kernels have had cubic as the default for a while. Until a new kernel package comes out to fix this, you need to load the module at boot time via /etc/modules or modprobe tcp_cubic for now. Next, edit /etc/sysctl.conf and set net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control to...
Apr 8th
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Best Breakfasts in America - US Restaurants with Best Breakfast - Esquire PEP 374 — Migrating from svn to a distributed VCS Useful comparison of svn to git, Mercurial and Bazaar.
Apr 1st