PHP has some default limits that do not work out of the box when you want to work with uploading very large files. So there are a few configuration changes you have to make to the defaults that come with PHP. These are defined in you php.ini file. The...

AppEngine is nice, but it's a little limiting. No cron jobs, filesystem use nor customization with third party libraries, software, databases, languages, etc. You can't deploy PHP, Ruby and or your 'other' favorite web development tools. You can only use ...

I wrote my first Python package over the weekend. It is a simple package that adds a basic blog API to an existing Flask application. It's called `command_line_blog` and is available [on Github](https://github.com/seanbehan/command_line_blog) and [on ...

It's a pretty straightforward process. Download the source and compile it. There isn't a package for it so here are the commands. wget http://sphinxsearch.com/downloads/sphinx-0.9.8.1.tar.gz tar xzvf sphinx-0.9.8.1.tar.gz cd sphinx-0.9.8.1/ ./configure...

super easy gem install passenger passenger-install-apache2-module will walk you through the install and remember to copy paths to your apache config file. for passenger i kept it in mods-available/passenger.conf and then linked it to mods-enabled ln -s...