Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 11.04

Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. It supports the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, virtual hosts, authentication, on the fly encoding, load balancing, Apache compatible log files, and much more. This tutorial shows how you can install Cherokee on an Ubuntu 11.04 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 11.04

Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on an Ubuntu 11.04 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 11.04

Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on an Ubuntu 11.04 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support.

Apache OpenOffice.org proposal approved. SkySQL Tekes new funding. And more.

# The proposal for OpenOffice.org to become an Apache incubator project was unanimously approved.

# Rob Weir discussed how the relationship between OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice need not be a zero-sum game.

# Simon Phipps offered his thoughts on the potential positive and negative outcomes.

# Tekes, the main public funding agency for research, development, and innovation in Finland, …

If you run Debian or Ubuntu, and want a way to auto-generate a sources.list entry, then you should definitely look at: Setting up Repositories for Ubuntu/Debian. Its very simple: choose a distribution, then a release, then choose what version of MariaDB you would like to track and a mirror of your choice, and voila! it generates the sources.list for you.

LVM (Logical Volume Management) is a very important tool to have in the toolkit of a MySQL DBA. It allows you to create and extend logical volumes on the fly. This allows me to, say, add another disk and extend a partition effortlessly. The other very important feature is the ability to take snapshots, that you can then use for backups. All in all its a must have tool. Hence, this guide will allow you to understand various terminologies associated with LVM, together with setting up LVM volumes and in a later part will also show you how to extend...

I love STL containers in C++. They're so much better in general to work with than their C counterparts. The bit that's missing though is an instantiation-time optimized version of map.

Take, for instance, reading a set of commands at startup from a set of dynamically loaded plugins. It's not going to change, in this hypothetical case, because we neither load nor unload plugins after startup. But it's dynamic in the sense that we do not know it at compile time - so doing something like gperf to generate a perfect hash is out of the question.

But why should we pay the lookup cost on a dynamic container for every lookup if I can determine, based on program flow, that the contents of the container are not going to change once it's instantiated.

Something like:

const perfect_map(some_dynamic_map_I_built);

Where the constructor would do a perfect hash generation once, and the map itself would be const (not …

Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 11.04 (LAMP)

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu 11.04 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

As announced, I held a short talk on switching from MySQL community edition (especially 5.1) to MariaDB (currently 5.2.6) at this years LinuxTag in Berlin. Here are the (German) slides for reference: (In case you cannot see the embedded presentation, … Weiterlesen →

If you happen to be around at this years LinuxTag 2011 in Berlin/Germany, you are invited to attend my short talk on MariaDB as a drop-in replacement for MySQL. The talk focusses on differences between MySQL Community Edition and MariaDB … Weiterlesen →