tech notes

How to connect to MongoDB from Node.js

webjay — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:36:00 +0200

Node, meet Mongo: nodejs-meet-mongo.js

Rdio signup howto from outside US

webjay — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:39:00 +0200

Get and install the Tor Browser Bundle (We need Tor, Vidalia, Firefox, and Torbutton).
Start Vidalia.
On Firefox Torbutton click Toggle Tor status.
Click View the Network in Vidalia.
Memorize nicknames of US relays.
Click Settings, choose Advanced and Edit current torrc.
Insert nicknames comma separated after ExitNodes (ExitNodes nickname1, nickname2).
Insert this line somewhere: StrictExitNodes 1.
Click Use a New Identity.
Goto rdio.com and sign up.

Connect with me here.

When using iDefrag make sure you turn your screen brightness down before you reboot to keep the...

webjay — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 23:38:31 +0200

When using iDefrag make sure you turn your screen brightness down before you reboot to keep the disks cooler.

Git: How to upgrade from a remote branch

webjay — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:37:42 +0200

git fetch [remote]

git merge [remote]/[branch]

Amazon CloudFront with Custom Origin via Cyberduck

webjay — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:27:01 +0200

It took me some time to figure out how to enable Custom Origin in order to utilize Origin Pull on Amazon CloudFront via Cyberduck, although I tried this and even that, so I thought I would share how I made it work.

Create a CloudFront distribution.
Create a S3 bookmark in Cyberduck. Use your Origin Bucket hostname as server.
Edit the bookmark XML file.
On a Mac it’s around here: Library/Application Support/Cyberduck/Bookmarks
Add Web URLhttp://YourCustomOrigin.tld/ inside .
Connect to the server and select the Distribution (CDN) panel from the Info window.
Enable Enable Amazon CloudFront distribution.
You’re done.

FastCGI Process Manager as a Service Management Facility

webjay — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:12:00 +0200

Here’s how to get FastCGI Process Manager (PHP-FPM) to work with Service Management Facility (SMF) on Solaris.

git clone git://gist.github.com/888451.git php-fpm
svccfg import php-fpm/php-fpm.xml

Clone it here.

Git clone and your submodules

webjay — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:35:21 +0100

After git clone don’t forget:

git submodule init
git submodule update

Pretty print JSON via command line

webjay — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 14:49:58 +0100

curl http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show/webjay.json | php -r "print_r(json_decode(fgets(STDIN)));"

CakePHP 1.3 currently only supports SimpleTest 1.0. 1.1 will give you Call to undefined method...

webjay — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 13:38:24 +0100

CakePHP 1.3 currently only supports SimpleTest 1.0.

1.1 will give you Call to undefined method CakeHtmlReporter::SimpleReporter().

How to get PID from a photo on Facebook

webjay — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:14:05 +0100

Goto photo album
Copy id from url
Goto photos.getAlbums
Enter id in uid
Get the aid from the album where the image is in
Goto photos.get
Enter aid
You should now be able to get the pid

git checkout [tag] .

webjay — Fri, 14 May 2010 02:08:57 +0200

`git checkout [tag] .` is great to avoid merge conflicts when upgrading a framework where you only mess in the files you created.

Twitter conversation bookmarklet

webjay — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:41:00 +0100

My way of a Twitter conversation bookmarklet:
Twitter conversation
(Drag it to your browser’s bookmark bar)

Here’s an example:
http://conv.smart.joyent.com/?tweet=http://twitter.com/dsearls/status/7749106265

Huawei device gone

webjay — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:48:20 +0200

If you like me accidentally deletes your Huawei device, this article may help.

localhosting: FileVault = 403 Forbidden

webjay — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:10:00 +0200

If you get 403 Forbidden after having turned FileVault on, the fix is to enable sharing for your Sites folder.

jQuery vs document.getElementById

webjay — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:10:37 +0200

document.getElementById(‘someid’) = jQuery(‘#someid’).get(0)

If you don’t get it, you don’t need to know.

Reinstall a Mac

webjay — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:25:00 +0200

You’ll need the original DVD that came with it and old ones require 10.5.5.

Update: If Snow Leopard, you just need to format the disk first.

MySQLDiff

webjay — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:29:22 +0200

If you like me use MySQLDiff to detect structure differences between two databases and create alter scripts I have a small tip for you here.

If you get the error: The configured Path for Session files () is not writeable! the reason is that session.save_path is unset in your php.ini.

my Javascript isFloat

webjay — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:52:39 +0200

function isFloat (value) {
	if (isNaN(value) || value.toString().indexOf(".") < 0) {
		return false;
	} else {
		if (parseFloat(value)) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return false;
		}
	}
}

Inspired by Simple isFloat() Function

AirPort Extreme + Express

webjay — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:16:05 +0100

If you like me have an AirPort Extreme (n) + Express (g) and create a WDS network, the speed will be as fast as the slowest AirPort, which in my case was G, thus I made my Express only join my Extreme.

Pootle setup as non root via SVN

webjay — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:44:00 +0100

Get the branch or tag you like. I chose Pootle-1-2-0:

$ svn co https://translate.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/translate/src/tags/Pootle-1-2-0
$ cd Pootle-1-2-0
$ ./setuppath
$ ./setpath
$ ./pootlesetup.py bdist
$ ls dist/

Right there I hope you see something like Pootle-1.2.0.solaris-2.11-i86pc.tar.gz

$ cd ..

Now unpack the packed file. Yours could have another name than mine:
$ tar xzfv Pootle-1-2-0/dist/Pootle-1.2.0.solaris-2.11-i86pc.tar.gz

Set the PYTHONPATH to where site-packages is. Adjust the italic to fit your environment:
$ export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/home/mysite/homes/pootle/opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages

Now we need jToolkit:
$ wget http://puzzle.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/jtoolkit/jToolkit-0.7.8.tar.gz
$ tar xzf jToolkit-0.7.8.tar.gz
$ cd jToolkit-0.7.8
$ ./jToolkitSetup.py bdist
$ cd ..
$ tar xzf jToolkit-0.7.8/dist/jToolkit-0.7.8.solaris-2.11-i86pc.tar.gz

and ElementTree:
$ svn co http://svn.effbot.org/public/tags/elementtree-1.2.6-20050316
$ cd elementtree-1.2.6-20050316
$ python setup.py bdist
$ cd ..
$ tar xzf elementtree-1.2.6-20050316/dist/elementtree-1.2.6-20050316.solaris-2.11-i86pc.tar.gz

make sure translate can be found in site-packages
$ cp -r Pootle-1-2-0/translate opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages

lxml:
$ wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/l/lxml/lxml-2.1.3.tar.gz
$ tar xvzf lxml-2.1.3.tar.gz
$ cd lxml-2.1.3
$ python setup.py bdist
$ cd ..
$ tar xzf lxml-2.1.3/dist/lxml-2.1.3.solaris-2.11-i86pc.tar.gz

kid:
$ wget http://www.kid-templating.org/dist/0.9.6/kid-0.9.6.tar.gz
$ cd kid-0.9.6
$ python setup.py bdist
$ cd ..
$ tar xzf kid-0.9.6/dist/kid-0.9.6.solaris-2.11-i86pc.tar.gz

Now you should be able to start
./opt/local/bin/PootleServer