I recently decided to switch from OSX to Linux and went with Gentoo, so this post describes how install Gentoo on MacBook Pro. IMO the installation isn’t as complicated and difficult as many think it is, so I eventually...
SSL certificates can be quite cheap these days, but nothing beats free, and in this post I will show you how to use Let’s Encrypt certificates with Nginx (back in early 2011, I wrote a post on the most common reasons why...
There are several guides on the Internet on setting up Ubuntu server, but I thought I’d add here some notes on how to set up Ubuntu server for Ruby and PHP apps at the same time. Ubuntu’s latest Long Term Support...
This is how I fixed an issue with networking in CentOS Parallels virtual machines . Basically, after cloning the template, the clones appear to report only the loopback interface and one eth interface which seems to be inactive...
This post describes how to dynamically generate column names from row values in MySQL databases, also known as pivot tables. Let’s say you have a table or the results of a query with some values by date in different rows...
