Cmake FindMySQL script
Cmake is a great build tool. It takes care of generating build system files, targeting, among others, Unix makefile, MS Visual Studio, ninja, XCode …
High system load with Ubuntu 15.10 and 16.04 in AWS
I have recently upgraded my Amazon cloud t2.micro instance from Ubuntu 15.04 to 15.10. And soon I noticed a very strange high load on the machine - …
Muting conversation threads in Google's new Inbox
I wrote earlier regarding the new product from Google - the Google Inbox. GI is still work in progress, so some features present in the familiar GMail …
Creating Drupal theme based on boostrap and material design from Google
clog - add colours to your log life (and files)
Developers often have to look at log files. This is sometimes boring, sometimes tedious, but it’s a fact of life. It would really help if some …
TeamCity and publishing NUGet packages to private repositories
Recently I had to figure out how to publish a NUGet package to a private password-protected repository as part of a TeamCity CI build process. NUGet, …
Scrapy and persistent cookie manager middleware
Scrapy is a nice python environment for web scraping, i.e. extracting information from web sites automatically by crawling them. It works best with …
No more Mr JavaScript guy?
After doing some web development work recently, I have clearly remembered why I hate JavaScript so much. Not only is it ugly as a language, lacking in …
.NET's MemoryStream and buffer slice
.NET’s MemoryStream is a very convenient class. It allows you to use a byte[] array as storage, while accessing it via standard Stream API. …
Ubuntu 15.04 freezing
I use Ubuntu (a modern Linux distribution) as my main work station. Everything worked fine until I upgraded from version 14.10 to 15.04 of the OS. At …