Setting Nginx, PHP Fastcgi and XCache on a new Ubuntu

April 29, 2010   -   Web Development   -   6 comments

Recently, because of a mandatory VPS move I had an opportunity to migrate all my sites from apache to nginx. My old box was in a messy state and setting up a new box from scratch was always going to be fun. Here in this post, I will walk you through all the steps that [...]

Setting up ejabberd 2.1.x development environment on Ubuntu

March 31, 2010   -   XMPP   -   5 comments

apt-get provide a convenient way of installing ejabberd on Ubuntu distributions. However, if you are an erlang developer and looking to write custom ejabberd modules, you might want to install ejabberd from the source code. Checkout ejabberd source To start with lets grab the ejabberd 2.1.x branch source code: sudo apt-get install git-core git clone [...]

Memcached and "N" things you can do with it – Part 1

January 18, 2009   -   Scalability   -   19 comments

In my last post MySQL Query Cache, WP-Cache, APC, Memcache – What to choose, I discussed in brief about 4 caching technologies which you might have used knowingly or unknowingly. Towards the end we came to a conclusion that memcached is the best caching solution when you are looking for speed and number of hits [...]

How to get started with web development?

July 27, 2008   -   Web Development   -   9 comments

Many of my friends have asked me on how to start with web development. I am not expert but here in this post I would like to describe a few steps that might help one climb the ladder of web development fast. Kindly feel free to add to this blog post if you think some [...]

How to configure Ubuntu and LAMP on Windows

May 13, 2008   -   Web Development   -   4 comments

Hello all Linux freaks, Having already looked upon how to configure Apache-PHP-MySQL on Windows, now here I will try to explain in short how to do the same on Linux OS. I personally don’t have a seperate machine for linux. I run Ubuntu on my Windows machine using VM Ware. So before we go on [...]

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