LED Cubes, and Raspberry Pis
Raspberry Pis have been out for a while. And I’m thinking of picking one up for projects over the work term in May – August. (Also, because a Raspberry Pi is just something interesting to have… the possibilities of a cheap & low-power Linux system are numerous.) I’m not sure how I got onto the […]
On Marmalade and PlayBook development
Posted by in Programming on January 30, 2013
So… The Marmalade promotion is ending in a few hours. I’m still waiting for my app to get approved through QA, so we’ll see what happens. Cutting it a bit close, but that’s life. Mainly because my workaround for Marmalade Web not working was to use WebWorks, which… I was only recently told didn’t actually […]
Nginx & php-fpm configuration
Posted by in Uncategorized on January 24, 2013
Edit: Everything below is pretty much superseded by a new post. php-fpm: /var/lib/php/session was owned by root:apache, so php-fpm couldn’t create session files. Fix was chgrp nginx /var/lib/php/session. For some reason, after doing yum update, /var/lib/php/session was changed back to root:apache, but that was only noticed on one system so far, haven’t observed it on others, but […]
I’m glad I went
Posted by in Personal on January 19, 2013
I went to an outdoor music festival thing (Igloo Fest) in Montreal today, on the recommendation of a friend. I almost didn’t go. But I’m glad I did. It was kind of amusing. They had a fire, and people were giving out marshmallows on sticks, so I grabbed one and toasted it. And as I […]
Silly Access-Control-Allow-Origin Workarounds
Posted by in Programming on January 13, 2013
“Origin null is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin” was the error I was getting when looking at a local html/JS powered page on my desktop, and I tried to do a getJSON request in jQuery. It’s a well known problem – but also quite annoying, mainly because the fixes were generally of the form “change your […]
Compiling & publishing BlackBerry WebWorks apps
Posted by in Programming on January 13, 2013
As part of the Blackberry Playbook promo, I have to publish an app on the BlackBerry App World store. Ripple was somewhat easy to get up and running. Except for the fact that it didn’t like the launch on Playbook option – it was checking some variable that wasn’t set, so it ended up trying […]
Pushing an existing repo to github
Posted by in Programming on January 11, 2013
Because I’ve had to do it a number of times, and had to look it up each time: Create the repo on github On the desktop/laptop/whatever, in Git Bash, change to the folder with the repo Run: git remote add origin [email protected]:username/repo.git, then git branch –set-upstream master origin/master and finally git pull And done.
New Year’s Resolutions 2013
Posted by in Personal on January 1, 2013
Be more awesome Move fast and break things Take more photos with people (The 4K monitor resolution just has to wait till I move out of the dorm.)
The best of 2012
Posted by in Personal on December 31, 2012
As inspired by Kev: My 5 best moments of 2012 1. Meeting a special someone The person responsible for this knows who they are. They’re making me smile pretty much daily right now, I figure that’s as good a reason as any to be #1 in my list of good things. 2. Going to UWaterloo […]
Now that I’m actually looking for it
Posted by in Sysadmin on December 28, 2012
I’m seeing stuff about China’s blocking VPNs everywhere: New York Times, the BBC, and of course, Slashdot. Interesting tidbit: OpenVPN over TCP on port 53 apparently works. Not sure why it’d be like that, but maybe it’s something unexpected from infrastructure put in place for DNS poisoning. Possibly unrestricted, but mirrored to the DNS servers, […]