Year: 2013

  • Looking back at 2013, planning ahead for 2014

    The year 2014 is almost here so it’s time to take a look back and make some plans for the coming year. In 2013 the blog was a bit more active than previous years and I managed to put together 13 articles as I last year promised. Not one article per month but on average…

  • Transferring Linux install media to USB thumb drive

    Optical drives are nowadays less common on laptops which makes making bootable install medias a little easier. Yes, easier by requiring you to use USB thumb drives. There are different ways to achieve what you want and here is couple of examples how to transfer Linux install media to USB thumb drive on Windows and…

  • Fujitsu Forum 2013: view to human centric intelligent society

    Fujitsu Forum 2013: view to human centric intelligent society

    Munich in Autumn isn’t maybe the most predictable travel target but for many decision-makers, experts, project managers, IT architects, consultants and users it’s the place to go when Fujitsu’s largest IT-event in Europe took place on 6th and 7th November. I was one of the invited bloggers to visit Fujitsu Forum 2013 and again it…

  • Getting ready for Fujitsu Forum 2013

    Getting ready for Fujitsu Forum 2013

    In two weeks time it’s again that time of the year when business- and IT decision-makers, experts and specialists, project managers and IT architects, consultants and users travel to Germany to visit Fujitsu’s largest IT-event in Europe: Fujitsu Forum 2013. And that’s also the destination where I’m going as I’m one of the bloggers invited…

  • Do a clean install of Windows 8 with an upgrade key

    There are times when you have to do a clean install of your Windows 8 but if you have just an upgrade key you need to make couple of extra hoops before you can activate the new install. The upgrade key doesn’t prevent you installing to a clean disk but when you try to activate,…

  • Auto-expand WP-Syntax code blocks

    Hilighting code blocks in Worpdress blog posts can be achieved with different plugins and one of them is the WP-Syntax plugin which uses GeSHi source code highlighting and supports a wide range of popular languages, highlighting with or without line numbers and maintains formatting while copying snippets of code from the browser.… Jatka lukemista →

  • Using PHP-FPM with Apache 2 on CentOS

    Running Apache 2 and PHP is simple with mod_php but there are more efficient alternatives like using PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) which is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation. With it the PHP process runs standalone without the need for a web server and listens for incoming requests on either a TCP or a Unix socket.……

  • Maven plugin to generate HTML from Markdown

    Writing documentation or user guide isn’t the most interesting part of the software project but it’s still needed to be done and important for the end users. There are many ways to achieve documentation but using Markdown is good way to make it easier. After that you just need to convert it to HTML and…

  • Setting up LAMP stack on OS X

    Setting up LAMP stack for web development on OS X can be done with 3rd party software like MAMP but as Mac OS X comes with pre-installed Apache and PHP it’s easy to use the native setup. You just need to configure Apache, PHP and install MySQL. Setup Apache2 Set up the Server Name to…

  • Monitoring Java EE application with JavaMelody

    Monitoring Java EE application with JavaMelody

    Software development is much more than just coding application by requirements and deploying it to production as the real work really starts after it has been shipped: maintenance, improvements and problem solving. And for that it’s good to have some data. It’s said “if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it” and in ideal…