Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.1.0-rc1 on May 7, 2013. Downloads are available from our download site here . For this RC release, we will not be making APT and YUM repositories available, just base deb and RPM packages
This is an Release Candidate quality release and is not intended for production. If you want a high-quality, generally available release, the current stable version should be used (currently 2.0.7 in the 2.0 series at the time of writing).
- New Relic: How do you move more than 6000 customers in 2 hours? (Hint: plan ahead)
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: MySQL 5.5 and 5.1 Support in Alpha
…Buttermilk Pancakes over at Simply Recipes . Yum.
All that steel in the name of convenience is a shameful waste.
Are People Really That Lazy?
That was probably my first thought. Have people become so darn lazy that can't mix a little water with some batter mix and make semi-homemade pancakes? I hope not. For crying in a bucket, how hard is it to mix up a little batter!
If you poke around on the blaster site, they have so-called testimonials from overly exuberant …
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.1.0 for MySQL beta on April 22, 2013. Downloads are available from our download site here . For this BETA release, we will not be making APT and YUM repositories available, just base deb and RPM packages
This is an BETA quality release and is not intended for production. If you want a high quality, generally available release, the current stable version should be used ( currently 2.0.6 in the 2.0 series at the time of writing) .
- New Relic: How do you move more than 6000 customers in 2 hours? (Hint: plan ahead)
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: MySQL 5.5 and 5.1 Support in Alpha
Homebrew The ultimate package manager (see APT and YUM). Just about anything you'll need for development, from libraries to programming languages to database servers, can be brew installed. Check this list of all 2077 formulas .
iA Writer Focused writing app (yes, that's a category) that supports Markdown, iCloud synchronization, and got a counterpart iPhone/iPad app. Incidentally what I'm using to write this post.
iStats Menu System …
- DevChix: Meet devChix member Nola Stowe
- ZURB: Firefox 4 Panorama Is Fancy but Impractical
- JJinuxLand: Google I/O 2011
- Global Nerdy: That's How We Roll in the Wintel World
- carpeaqua by Justin Williams: A Review of the Das Keyboard For Mac
- Lee Munroe: Steve Jobs on Taking a Calligraphy Class
Step 2: use Yum
From there you can use Yum to install packages. For example, try one of these: yum install nginx-passenger
or yum install mod_passenger
or yum install passenger-standalone
Building your own packages
There are instructions for building your own packages and Yum repositories in the rpm directory ReadMe within the GitHub repository .
Final
Phusion Passenger is provided to the community for free. If you like Phusion Passenger, please …
- Brightbox Ruby Blog: Passenger 3.0.14 and NGINX 1.2.2 packages for Ubuntu
- 赖洪礼的 blog: Phusion Passenger for Python?
- Simone Carletti's Blog: How to restart God when you deploy a new release via Capistrano
- News Feed: Recommended: Phusion on Building a More Efficient Ruby 1.8 Interpreter (Rerun)
- has_many :bugs, :through => :rails: Ruby on Rack #1 - Hello Rack!
- A Piece of Our Mind: The MetaSpring Blog Carnival: Issue 9 - Ruby On Rails
Step 2: use Yum
From there you can use Yum to install packages. For example, try one of these: yum install nginx-passenger
or yum install mod_passenger
or yum install passenger-standalone
Building your own packages
There are instructions for building your own packages and Yum repositories in the rpm directory ReadMe within the GitHub repository .
Final
Phusion Passenger is provided to the community for free. If you like Phusion Passenger, please …
- Ruby Inside: The Mega April 2012 Ruby and Rails News Roundup
- AkitaOnRails.com - English: Cooking Solo with Chef
- Codeshooter's Weblog: Setting a far future expires header for your Rails app static assets in your Nginx server
- Trevor Turk: Weekly Digest, 10-12-09
- Andrzej on Software: A Guide to Deploying Rails Applications
- Rubynaut: Scaling a Rails app (Part 3 of 3)
…heater disabled:
I taped mine down with electrical tape:
That's it!
Just follow the steps backwards to reassemble your dryer. The electrically inclined may want to enhance their dryer with a switch. I (on the other hand) am lazy. I bought a second dryer so that I could make jerky and do normal food dehydrating at the same time.
You can see more pictures of the process here . I plan to write a follow up post where I actually make jerky. Yum!
Reverse-engineering proprietary javascript data transfer: not my idea of fun.
MacinCloud - Rent a Mac online. Not exactly cheap but not as expensive as buying one.
Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support - Don't buy an Android phone unless you're happy with the version of the OS that it already runs.
Ruby HTTP clients features - Nice chart to help you choose among a bunch of libraries.
Pixelmator 2.0 - Yum yum.
- Intridea - Company Blog: My Web Development Toolbox, 2010 Edition
- David Bolton Strikes Again: My Tools of the Trade
- Trevor Turk: Links for 09-26-11
I'm past ready to spend another weekend in the woods.
OCZ's Octane SSD: Indilinx Everest, Up to 1TBB in a Consumer Drive - Yum yum.
XSS is fun! - Cross-site scripting hole at NYT, CNN, and elsewhere. This sort of thing is why I run Firefox with NoScript .
I Hate My Smartphone - Glad to see someone else isn't all starry eyed about this new tech stuff.
Ruby 2.0 Implementation Work Begins: What is Ruby 2.0 and What's …
For those tired of typical soups like vegetable, chicken noodle or clam chowder, we'd like to introduce a new kind of soup: a soup of muffins and other sweet treats.
Muffin Soup is a simple yet super-fun and highly addictive arcade game for Android. Using the tilt controls in your phone, pick up muffins, lollipops, donuts and cakes to concoct a delicious ultra-sugary soup. Yum! But beware toxic ingredients! Dead rats, fish bones, spiders and mysterious chemicals not only taste foul, …
- Topics: Android