Technical Insights

Compiling libjpeg on 64 bit Centos

I ran into an issue just now compiling libjpeg on 64 bit CentOS. I found this very helpful post that gives a workaround using a config.guess file from libtool. For some reason, I didn’t have …

Enabling Mod Deflate in Apache

I got an error while compiling Apache today:

“./configure”
“–enable-auth-digest”
“–enable-deflate”
“–enable-rewrite” …

Mutable class instance variables in Python act like they're static

There’s a weird behavior in Python when dealing with Mutable types such as dictionaries, that when you modify a variable defined as a class attribute, you’re actually modifying a shared …

MySQL ALTER table Progress Bar?

Altering a big table sucks, and to make it worse you have no idea what’s happening or how long it will take. I’d like a progress bar, or some status output, or something that gives me the …

MySQL and Materialized Views

I was poking around the MySQL Worklog again over the weekend, and found a request for materialized views for MySQL. This feature has existed in Oracle for a while, in DB2 as a materialized query …

VMWare, Losing Time, and Sessions

I’ll keep it short. In the last few days, login on our dev server broke. We hadn’t changed anything related to it, and everything looked good code wise. What we finally figured out was …

'MySQL: Time Delayed Replication'

I was cruising the MySQL Forge Worklog when I came across the idea of Time Delayed Replication. I had never considered the benefits of deliberately keeping a slave server behind a master.

Kristian …

How many lines of code?

I was curious how many lines of code were in PHPBB 3. I only wanted to know about the .php files.

find . -name ‘*.php’ -exec wc -l {} ; | awk ‘{ SUM += $1 } END {print SUM}’ …

BBEdit + CTags

I posted a complaint a while ago about BBEdit complaining about a few things. I moved onto TextMate for a few weeks, but it lacked some of the powerful BBEdit features I’ve gotten used to.

Then …