Now that adobe have improved Linux support for the flash player (including 64-bit systems) and released the open source flex SDK, its now relatively easy to develop fully fledged flex applications on your Linux machine. This post is designed to be an introduction to get you up and running on flex, more posts will follow with examples from a flex + python + sqllite application that I’m current building using Continue reading
As part of a project I required a proxy which would allow remote users to access serveral internal servers sitting behind our firewall from a single access point. The easiest way of accomplishing this is via a proxy. My first choice of proxy is squid which supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and protocols. Used in reverse proxy mode it also alows you to reduce the load on webservers serving dynamic content Continue reading
What is elastic webhosting?
Elastic web hosting in its simplest terms is a hosting account where resources can be rapidly expanded to meet demand. Still very much a new technology its use is gradually beginning to pick up as more and more people discover the limitations of fixed resource hosting. On a typical fixed hosting account you’re allocated a fixed amount of resources and the amount you pay is based on Continue reading
Having attempted to set ruby on rails up many times, this is by far my favourite soloution and it also happens to be the simplest. Why did i go the mongrel route? Well because FastCgi with Apache make me want to cry. Its buggy (especially on fedora and CentOS) and its a pain in the ass to setup. Where as mongrel on the other hand is a piece of cake. Continue reading