My Work

A very nice procedure on how to configure your server to use no-ip urls can be found at the below url:

http://wiki.shellium.org/w/Howto_install_no-ip_utility_in_CentOS

Open the firefox profile manager:

On Mac:

/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -ProfileManager

This post is going to be ever increasing as I’m going to add more and more links when I encounter any problems or difficulties or may be due to unknown stuff that I encounter which have to solved due to everyday maintenance.

Give a regular user the privileges of using SUDO:

http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/BecomingRoot

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Grant-Root-Privileges-to-Regular-Users-41633.shtml

Update: 16th June 2011

User management and User Rights management:

groupadd <group_name>
usermod -a -G <group_name> <username>
chgrp <group_name> <your_folder>

Most of the User management stuff can be found here:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/unix-or-linux-commands-for-changing-user-rights.html

Update: 20th June 2011

Installing Sun JDK 1.6+ on my CentOS server.  Its been a long hard struggle to get Java working properly for my team members to start working directly on the server for their java development.  After a lot of struggle and many dead-ended tutorials, I found this tutorial:

http://edipage.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/install-sun-java-and-tomcat-on-centos-5/

Very neatly described and the installation works out of the box with a little bit of tweaking here and there.

Another tutorial which I had referred and haven’t used is this:

http://de0ris.blogspot.com/2008/08/installing-java-sun-jdk-160-on-centos5.html

One more step to be performed, but I haven’t done it is at the location:

http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=8390

Update: 23rd June 2011

To install all the common development tools for CentOS:

yum groupinstall ‘Development Tools’

This one command will install all the necessary development tools from gcc, g++, strace, flex, bison, subversion, etc. in one go.

Update: 6th July 2011

Link for installing Tomcat 7 on Centos… This one is amazing in terms of the quality of stuff he’s dealt with and the tomcat server can be configured in no time!

http://davidghedini.blogspot.com/2011/02/install-tomcat-7-on-centos-rhel.html

CODA – This editor is based on Subetha Engine as it allows us to do Live Collaboration on documents by multiple people.  Also, it functions as a text editor + file transfer + svn + css + terminal + books and many more.  Many people via blogs have stated that CODA is one of their best Text Editors for Mac.

Price: $99/license

Expresso – The attractive feature about this editor is that its got Live Preview to preview our pages that we are developing, including CSS also.  It also has a good FTP solution where we can view both the local copy and the remote copy, along with the feature to publish our site on many different clouds or to our personal servers with an excellent Search and Replace feature also.  Regular features like Syntax highlighting and others are also present.  They have a product called as CSSEdit and its an amazing CSS editor with live preview capabilities.

Price: $79.99/license

Lyx – Mainly used for making mathematical equations with ease and primarily for academic purposes.  This is very good if we need to have an editor which can help us write Math equations with ease for assignments or for anything else.

Price: Free

Evernote -A cloud based awesome notes taking tool, which has many plugins and apps on several mobile platforms and multi-OS support.  This is very important if we like to carry our ideas and our notes anywhere we go.  Interesting design on the UI.

Price: Free – 60mb/month and for Premium – 1GB/month

MindNode Pro – This is mainly for taking down our ideas and thought process as an electronic copy.  Very intuitive drawing layout and different tools are available to perform various types of note making.

Price: $20/license

Circus Ponies Notepad – A regular mainstream real-paper like notepad where we can organize and arrange stuff in order such that we have a real notebook feeling.  Pretty interesting design and my style of note making interms of the what has to noted down.

Price: Paid

Gobby – Online free real-time collaborative tool for multi-people editing at the same time.  Its free and has a GPL license.  It runs on windows and on linux platforms making it very feature rich.  Can make it run on Mac using the X11.app from Apple.

Price: Free

MoonEdit – Another real-time editor for Windows and Linux.

Price: Free

EtherPad – Online web-based realtime collaborative editor.  Owned by Google and is completely open-source.  A note-worthy component to which we definitely need to give a good look at.

Price: Free

SynchroEdit – Another web-based online realtime collaborative editor for making multiple changes in a single document.  Very interesting to work on the same document at the same time.

Price: Free

Very nice video tutorials on Vi/Vim:

I’ve been spending a lot of money this month, taking into fact that after I received my cheque for the work that I did for Annenberg School of Communication, I’ve spent around nearly $500 on random stuff that I saw and felt as a good deal.

Yaay… Yet another Yaay!!!

Finally the Sennheiser HD448 has arrived safely to my house. I was surprised to see that the open-box item was completely brand new. This made me suspicious on why the previous customer returned this product. Then after careful searching, I found out that it was the size of the headphones. These are actually smaller and since I’m being a small person, I found the most comfortable fit for me

GoDaddy Shared hosting has most of the ports blocked.

This method has its disadvantage, being that you will not be able to secure the To-email id, subject, body details, etc. But then, it works if you just doing Developmental work

http://www.boost.org/