TJ Stein

With the announcement of the Heroku and Facebook partnership yesterday, Heroku quietly confirmed support for two new languages, Python and PHP. The self-proclaimed polyglot platform, Heroku's Celadon Cedar Stack now has a considerable advantage over newcomers like PHP Fog, and Orchestra.io by avoiding mostly separate, language-specific products.

One of my favorite Linux utilities I've discovered recently is lsyncd, a live syncing (mirror) daemon. Following the traditional Unix philosophy, it does data replication simply and it does it very well.

After a recent WordPress update, I noticed that the admin panel did not correctly reflect the new version as indicated in the footer of the backend panel. I realized that the APC opcode cache was not flushed and therefore held on to cached versions of many updated files. I thought about what other ways this cache could be flushed without restarting the web server or PHP daemon (PHP-FPM) without compromising service availability.

Only feel a chill whenever I come out from my shell. I'd surely lie if I said that I was sure that it might work out.

Since my recent switch from WordPress to Jekyll, I've really enjoyed playing around with Ruby. Although I don't have much programming experience, I've been fascinated with one particular Ruby framework, Sinatra.

With the combination of FUSE and s3fs, you can expand your local filesystem into the cloud in minutes.

During the process of redesigning my personal blog, I evaluated several pieces of software including Jekyll, Flask and Toto among a few others.

And I know, I know you will keep me on the shelf. I'll come back to you someday soon myself.

Fighting FOUT with WebFont Loader.

It's really difficult to watch yourself speak in front of an audience. Yes, I really look and talk just like that.

Alex Payne shares his thoughts on shortchanging your business with user-hostile platforms.

This is the first release of PHP-FPM plugins for Munin, available now on GitHub.

An illustrated guide on setting up the latest rails release using RVM, Nginx and Phusion Passenger.

Coffee + Wilco = impulse purchase.

Monitoring APC cache with Munin.

Nginx is a lovely web server. It's also a pretty neat load balancer too.

A quick how-to on fixing the 'unsupported protocol' issue with PHP 5.2.9 and 5.2.10.

2 crons, 1 cup...

My love/hate relationship with Apple Mail ends with divorce.