Category Archives: IT

Backup your server data to Dropbox

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Kymair

Though personal blogs are not that serious comparing to your account data in the bank, it still worths some backup. Linode does offer sophisticated official backup service starting from $5 per month, however if your website doesn’t have huge traffic … Continue reading →

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WordPress 3.0 is out!

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Kymair

WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” You may already know this, WordPress 3.0 is finally coming out! The new default theme called Twenty Ten is so sexy, and the admin page is just gorgeous as well!! Needless to say too much, please go … Continue reading →

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How am I connected to Twitter

Posted on April 10, 2010 by Kymair

My arsenal has Twip, Tweetie, Dabr and Metrist and Nginx. Twip is a simple script written in PHP which redirects HTTP request from user to Twitter official API endpoint, as long as you have a web hosting in U.S, you … Continue reading →

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MoinMoin + Nginx

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Kymair

Recently I’ve done quite a lot times of setting up LNMP(Linux + Nginx + Mysql + PHP). During this I notice there’s not much resource on the internet talking about the installation of MoinMoin on Nginx, so here’s what I’ve … Continue reading →

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If your company blocks port 22

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Kymair

Hmm..Then you won’t be able to access your own public server via SSH. Here’s a simple way to work around it. Just re-bind the sshd daemon of your server to port 443. # sed -i ‘s/Port\s22/Port 443/’ /etc/ssh/sshd_config # /etc/init.d/ssh … Continue reading →

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My First Time to modify .class file directly

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Kymair

I’ve been implementing a email dispatching and archiving program recently. To avoid reinventing the wheel, I simply did several searches on Google, one open source software called MailArchiva can get the archiving job done perfectly. It is built to support … Continue reading →

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Go ahead Chrome

Posted on November 24, 2009 by Kymair

Now I’m totally a Chrome fan. Speed is the very first thing Google has been always looking for, Firefox apparently is not fast enough. Let’s make the web faster! Chrome is surely one of the most important part. If it … Continue reading →

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Tabs Vs. Spaces

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Kymair

Yesterday I came across a weird problem which took me a whole day to troubleshoot but without luck. Speaking simply, one YAML configuration cannot be parsed due to whatever ParserException.. Alright this morning, I finally got it solved by editing … Continue reading →

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Use ‘import static’ to simplify your code

Posted on August 20, 2009 by Kymair

To write very robust and safe code, you should always treat the client as a potential attacker, a bad guy. Consider he will do his best to break your function with invalid arguments.Therefore the good practice is, always validate the … Continue reading →

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Something about Java

Posted on August 19, 2009 by Kymair

Spring being acquired by VMWare Here’s Rod Johnson’s blog post explaining this. Link  To be honest I can hardly imagine a combination of such two different companies. However as Rod himself points out, Cloud computing and similar things are breaking the … Continue reading →

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