Comments for Craig Andrews

Comment on One HTTPS site per IP address… or may be not? by Chicago Moving

Chicago Moving — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:14:05 +0000

Awesome post maggie, it’s been a while since I’ve been on here. I see that nobody has lost their passion. Good to be back.

Comment on One instance at a time with PID file in Bash by Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 02:06:03 +0000

Hi,

Your syntax is a bit wrong, when I ran the command the output of kill got redirected to the file 1.

Here is the syntax that worked for me:

if kill -0 $pid > /dev/null 2>&1; then
echo “Already running”
exit 1
else
rm $pidfile
fi
fi
echo $$ > $pidfile

Comment on UTF-8 and MySQL by Ian Mackinnon

Ian Mackinnon — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:33:15 +0000

Thanks, this is really helpful!

One note – “default-character-set” needs to be preceded by two dashes though in your post this seems to have been converted to a hyphen so I can’t be copied and pasted.

Comment on Running Ubuntu in VMWare by Craig Andrews

Craig Andrews — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:11:51 +0000

That’s the big advantage of DKMS – it gets automatically run whenever you install a new kernel. That’s the reason why I pushed so hard for a DKMS-packaging of open-vm-tools.

Comment on Running Ubuntu in VMWare by Steve Michael

Steve Michael — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:01:01 +0000

Thanks for posting this. I am trying to look into Ubuntu 10 with VmWare ESX and had a similar problem of supported kernels. Just a question though. Does DKMS automatically run when I would get a new kernel? So lets say I install the tools and then I upgrade the kernel from Ubuntu; will I need to do anything with the tools or this DKMS system?

Comment on HTTP Caching Header Aware Servlet Filter by jens

jens — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:12:58 +0000

Hi,

thanks!!! i need to implement this for my own project and started to research and stumbled upon your page:

absolutely great!!! thank you very much!!!

jens

Comment on Compression (deflate) and HTML, CSS, JS Minification in ASP.NET by Gary

Gary — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:54:51 +0000

Awesome,

This really helped me out. IIS7 seems to take care of most of these issues but the HTML minify was a real winner.

My only feedback is StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase is a better comparer, it is quicker.

Gary

Comment on One HTTPS site per IP address… or may be not? by Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:30:00 +0000

No need to go nuts recompiling Apache. Just install the GnuTLS module for Apache, which already supports TLS-SNI out of the box. If you use Ubuntu, this is simple as apt-get install libapache2-mod-gnutls, although you do need to change the mod_ssl syntaxes to ones compatible with mod_gnutls.

Comment on Install JBoss 4.2 on Centos/RHEL 5 by Barry Allard

Barry Allard — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:28:06 +0000

Just finished deploying the enterprise version of the jboss portal (which contains the enterprise version of the jboss as server). This would be JBEPP on Fedora 8 on AWS, MySQL 5 DS.

JB AS running correctly is a grey zone. There are many components and cyclical inter-dependencies, it’s hard to know if they’re ever configured correctly without access to middleware developers. Basically, JB can break in 100^100 ways and still appear to work.

Packages would be better, but then my company wouldn’t be able to charge $$$ for installing jboss.

Comment on oEmbed by Minna

Minna — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:40:57 +0000

BUT, the OEmbed code isn’t Valid XHTML. I always strip out the code.