Monthly Archives: January, 2010
CloudServers: Creating a new MySQL db server
On my previous post I posted the commands I used to create a brand new Linux web server for my Drupal site. Now I’ll post the commands to create the database server. While creating the server instance at RackspaceCloud, I’ve chosen Fedora 12 for my db server, which comes with MySQL 5.1.42. # Install MySQL [...]
CloudServers: Creating a new web server with httpd, php & memcached
Creating a new web server is piece of cake at Rackspace Cloud. Here is a demo video of how to set up a new instance with your favorite Linux distribution. I have used Fedora 12 for my new spaniards.es servers, and here is the script I’ve used to install everything needed so far: # Install [...]
Got new servers on Rackspace Cloud
Last night I got an account at Rackspace Cloud and created three brand new CentOS Linux servers. Now I have to set them up: two web servers and one database server. My goal: Move Spaniards.es website to this new hosting. Why move? Currently I am hosting Spaniards.es on two dedicated servers at Ace-Host.net. So far, [...]
Un Navarro en California is back!
Yeah baby, I’m back. I have restored the Drupal installation I had for my personal blog, kinda missed it a lot. Hopefully all the old links will still work. Visit: Un Navarro en California
4 years of excanvas
I wanted to say 5 years but it was actually in December 2005 when Emil A Eklund wrote on his blog about an idea he had to implement the canvas tag functionality in Internet Explorer using VML and behaviors. Today we now that code as excanvas. Well, it’s been 4 years and 1 month and [...]
Dojo y yo
Back in November 2008 I had a chance to work with Dojo on a project for Cisco WebEx. I didn’t like it at all. I was used to the simplicity of jQuery and Mootools and I couldn’t understand how Dojo had been designed so complicated. Well, one year later I just realized that it is [...]
Things to do
To do list: Try Appcelerator (downloaded.. don’t like it very much, have to spend more time with it) Install iPhone SDK 3.2 (downloading installing…) Study LinkedIn API Study Twitter API Take a look at YQL Play with Google Closure JS library Play with Dojo JS library That’s it for now. Let’s see if I can [...]
Detecting when CSS gets loaded by the browser with Mootools and Asset.css
Asset.css claims to have an onload event in Mootools documentation, but sadly, not all browsers support this feature. Even worse, browsers like Chrome seem to support the event, but never fire it. After some research and testing at work, we have come up with a solution that overrides Asset.css to detect when CSS gets loaded [...]
Loving git+github
Up until now I always used subversion and, although haven’t used it much, I liked Google Code repositories a lot. Well, in the last few days I’ve been working with git and github and I have to say that both of them are very cool.
Debugging cookies with Firebug 1.5/1.6
I’ve been using Firebug 1.5 since it was an alpha and now I’m using Firebug 1.6 alpha with Firefox 3.6. I’ve been also using Firecookie for a very long time now, but never realized about this: you can put breakpoints on cookies to detect changes! Good to know :)