Category: Web

Various posts related to Web development

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How to quickly check if an internet store is a scam

So imagine you go to google shopping (http://froogle.com) and search for an item to buy and google returns you a really awesome price for the thing you dreamed about your whole life (or just the last 5 minutes). And you are almost ready to go ahead and order the item…

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How to migrate ownCloud 6 from sqlite to MySQL

Those who do not know what ownCloud is probably should read about it here: http://owncloud.com. This is an awesome tool that provides functionality similar to dropbox, but uses your own server to host the files. We all know about dropbox’s bad behavior like storing passwords on the server side, accessing…

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How to make browser offline cache retrieve new version of the page when browser is online, but keep using cache when it is offline

Offline cache is awesome! For certain things. For most regular web pages it is unfortunately not. Here is web developer’s most frequent use for the offline cache: make browser use cached version of the page when browser is offline but refresh it when it gets online. What could be simpler…

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Posted in How To Linux Web

AWS EC2 ssh not responding in RHEL 6.4 AMI

I was fighting with an AWS bug today seeming just ridiculous for a system that makes ssh the only way to access the server. With no console login EC2 users are completely dependent on flawless sshd operation and Amazon team just did a really bad job preparing the RHEL 6.4…

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ActionView::Template::Error (active_admin.css isn’t precompiled)

Just sepnt quite some time fixing infamous “ActionView::Template::Error (active_admin.css isn’t precompiled)” error on prod. Everything worked fine in dev environment but once I put the code on prod it broke. Couple websites proposed several solutions, but none of them worked for me. Finally a combination of difference recipes seemed to…

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Enabling HTTPS in JBoss EAP 5, Using Self-Signed Certificate

Surprisingly by default JBoss EAP (at least version 5) comes with HTTPS disabled. Here is how to enable it:

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Using Jive Managed Snippets Plugin

Managed Snippets Plugin for Jive is awesome. It allows administrators to define sort of “macros” that can be reused on a Jive portal. The best part is that it allows to workaround the regular limitation for using javascript and HTML tags. Yes, that’s right, you can use Javascript, IFRAMEs and…

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Posted in Linux Web

Default login and password for JBoss EAP 5.1.2

The default login for the admin user for the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 5.2.1 and other v5 versions is “admin”. The passwords is obviously also “admin”. However if you try those right after the installation they won’t work, because you need to patch two files:

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Gmail Super-Glitch

I encountered an interesting gmail glitch yesterday. I have two email accounts: one personal and one for work. A few weeks ago I was using Thunderbird for both, but after a few cases when I was sending emails from the corporate account and they actually got sent from personal…

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How to submit your youtube videos to blinkx

how to submit youtube videos to blinkx

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Rails: what happens when memcached goes down

I tried to figure out how rails reacts to the fact that memcached goes down. Unfortunately there is no god documentation about this besides saying that everything will be fine. Also there are couple misleading posts in different forums saying that rails will never rediscover memcached server that went down…

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