OSS Proxy Daemon. Linux userland OSS sound device
April 2, 2013

OSS Proxy Daemon is a Linux userland OSS sound device (e.g. /dev/dsp, /dev/mixer) that supports forwarding OSS sound streams to PulseAudio and ALSA.

linux

How to install Prey on Linux
March 7, 2013

linux game

Monitor Dell S2340L vs Dell U2312HM
March 4, 2013

I have recently bought a Dell S2340L. Prior to this i have used Dell U2312HM at work.

Hardware dell monitor

How to get title from an audio stream with Python
December 25, 2012

How to get the name of a song from an audio stream?

Development python audio stream

Daily Backups from Amazon EC2
November 24, 2012

Amazon EC2 Backups

Task: to create daily backups from Amazon EC2 Instance (backup MySQL database, content related to site) and copy this backup to another PC. It is possible to do with bash scripts.

Development amazon backup administration

Emulation of mouse movements and keystrokes
September 16, 2012

How can i emulate keyboard and mouse activity on the system? How to automate it?

Development linux bash automation

Automatic migrations in Yii after git pull
August 1, 2012

Git Hooks in Yii

I have been using Git and Yii Framework for a long time. I develop projects mostly in a team. So I have to use the migrations (changes in the database's structure). I am interested in how I can automate the usage of automatic migrations.

Development yii git git hooks

Redis vs Memcache vs Memcached
July 18, 2012

Redis vs Memcached

I decided to test the performance of two popular cache servers. This is Redis and Memcached. I used phpredis, Memcache and Memcached.

Development redis memcached memcache cache benchmark

Microseconds in Yii Framework application.log
July 9, 2012

How can you add microseconds to application.log file (standard log in Yii Framework)?

Development php yii yii framework

Geo databases
July 2, 2012

Geo database search

Sometimes tasks related to geographical locations appear in development process. It can be development of LBS, construction of the drop-down list with a countries and cities, detecting location by ip, etc.. For this purpose it is necessary to have geo database.

Development geo maxmind geonames geolocation geoip database mysql