Saturday, August 31, 2013

How to Deploy ownCloud with postgresql, nginx, php-fpm, and chroot

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ownCloud is a promising open-source, self-hosted alternative to Dropbox. While I can't quite endorse it for mission critical, large-sca...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Faster Rails Asset Precompilation

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If you have multiple Javascript assets getting compressed by Uglify, your assets:precompile step might take a long time. Mine was adding se...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Choosing the right browser local storage

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So your new shiny HTML5 web app needs to persistently store data in the browser. What do you store where? Good ol' caching Just becau...
Friday, February 10, 2012

Many sites block access from Amazon EC2

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I'm a generally happy customer of Amazon Web Services. So when I needed to set up a VPN server, I figured EC2 would be a fine place to s...
Saturday, October 1, 2011

Sproutcore Bindings, Observers, and Performance

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Here's another Sproutcore performance tip that applies when you have computed properties depending on other computed properties. Conside...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Shrinking the stock Ubuntu AMIs for EC2

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Ubuntu provides official Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for use on the EC2 cloud. By default you get a root filesystem of 8GB. If you'r...
Thursday, September 15, 2011

Unit Testing Javascript with the Rails Asset Pipeline

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The Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline offers new possibilities for unit testing your Javascript/CoffeeScript assets. By making it easy to preproces...