Blogs

Prepare for the Next Internet Outage (6/14/25)

A reflection on recent internet outages and my takeways to build more resilient web services.

Discourse without Docker (6/27/16)

Detailed instructions on how to install Discourse and plugins without Docker.

Automatically open Sublime Text projects in a directory (5/15/13)

How to automatically open Sublimetext with a file, a project or the current directory according to the context.

Locking Buzhug (2/7/12)

How to implement a cross-process, system-wide lock for Buzhug

Aptana Studio/Eclipse and Xulrunner (12/16/11)

How to solve the “Unhandled event loop exception” error in Aptana Studio and Eclipse 3.7 with Xulrunner

Build the latest PgPool-II on Debian Etch (12/14/10)

Building PgPool-II on Debian Etch and avoid the “libpq is not installed or libpq is old” error

Setup Nginx for Mediawiki (9/15/10)

A simple configuration to serve Mediawiki with Nginx and FastCGI