I just bought a Tesco Nokia 100 phone (only £9!!) to use for my apartment’s annoying GSM based intercom. It’s got 35 day stand by battery so that makes it a good for the job. Following the instructions for opening the back cover will make you extremely frustrated. Here’s a short video showing the easiest …
If you use Azure to host your Linux VMs (I prefer Azure extra-small instances over EC2 tiny instances because they allow you to put swap on ephemeral storage) you may notice that you only have 541MB of free memory rather than the 768MB promised by Microsoft. This is because the Linux crash kernel …
With the unfortunate demise of Bloom.fm, a product I designed and developed as CTO for 2.5 years at a company I co-founded 5.5 years ago; I think it’s a good time to write a series on my learnings, decisions and experiences. My development team (minus visual designers) varied from 6-13 developers over the years. With this size team we wrote a music …
The instructions provided here for installing Postgres on CentOS via yum don’t work for Postgres 9.x (Postgres 9.3 being the latest) if you’re stuck running CentOS 6.4 or lower. CentOS 6.4 and lower do not ship with OpenSSL 1.0.1 which is required by Postgres 9.x — they ship with OpenSSL …