David Abdemoulaie

I recently had an epic battle with yum and the EPEL repository. I wasted enough time on it that I think it will be useful if others experience similar problems. The Problem I recently installed a new VM with [CentOS 5.5 x86_64]. Like usual I add the EPEL and IUS Community repositories so that I [...]

I’ve used a few different CSS/JS bundlers, but none have ever fulfilled all that I needed. Specifically, I wanted one that could do all of the following: Bundle automatically with little configuration Optionally minify Optionally compress Allow the bundled files to be served directly by the webserver, instead of by PHP. Easily allow files to [...]

I needed to write a custom nagios probe a few weeks ago. I googled for existing solutions in Ruby, but surprisingly found none. A nagios probe can really be written in any language, it just has to return a single line of output and an exit code of 0 (OK), 1 (WARNING), 2 (CRITICAL), or [...]

I moved my blog to GitHub Pages today. I’ve decided to stop tinkering with new blog software every few months. I’ve gone from LiveJournal to Typo to Mephisto to WordPress to Chyrp; it was fun while it lasted. While I enjoy the tinkering, it’s a time-sink, and I have never really enjoyed the post creation [...]

Since discovering StackOverflow I’ve become hopelessly addicted (see the badge to the right). I answer the mysql, php, zend-framework, and javascript categories mostly. My favorite category is mysql. These can be some of the most challenging questions to answer, particularly the query optimization ones. I often answer, having learned something myself in the process. Unfortunately, [...]