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Packt’s new book on Nginx: Nginx HTTP Server
Aug 16th
Well, as you can tell, it’s been about a month since I’ve posted on this blog, but I’ve been busy1 elsewhere. In a week or two I’d share with you a few of the projects I’ve been working on recently and show you some peeks at what I will be doing for this Autumn and beyond.
What else is new?
I was approached about two weeks ago by Packt Publishing to write a review of a new book on Nginx. I’ve never done it before, but it will be a new challenge for me. I’ll publish my review on Celavi|Blog so you should check back from time to time :) They found me by Google Search. Especially they noticed valuable and informative post about setting up Nginx on Ubuntu. I have to say, it sure does make all the time spent blogging feel a little more worthwhile!
Nginx HTTP Server
Nginx HTTP Server is a new book from Packt, written by Clement Nedelcu. This book is a detailed guide to setting up Nginx in different production situations: as standalone server, as reverse proxy, interacting with applications via FastCGI, and more. Using this book readers will be able to explore possible interactions between Nginx and Apache to get the best of both worlds.
Using this book, readers will be able to download and build Nginx from source along with its dependencies. In addition to this, they will learn the basics of Nginx configuration, process of replacing Apache by Nginx and troubleshooting. Users will also be able to configure Nginx to work as frontend for their existing HTTP server and establish advanced rewrite rules with the Nginx Rewrite module.
To read more about the book, please visit Packt Publishing Technical & IT Book Store.
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How I taught myself Android Application Development
Jun 19th
I’ve learned every programming language that I’ve used during my career reusing concepts I already knew and referring to documentation and books to learn its syntax. It’s been a while since I’ve learned my last one. I’m pretty sure that everybody heard the now classic advice from the Pragmatic Programmer: “Learn at least one new programming language a year!” I was postponing/avoiding this advice for the right opportunity to come. Sometime in April, when I was at home on parental leave, I’ve stumbled upon Si.mobil’s Prize Competition1 looking for fresh Android Applications. Looks like mobile applications are all the rage these days, so to speak. Diving into mobile development can have a long and hard learning curve, since it requires knowledge of advanced programming languages like Java and Objective C. Although I had only 4 weeks ’till the end of the competition, I’ve decided to give Android a try. In less than a month I’ve managed to learn Android2 and create an interesting application with a cute name “KjeSeRoka“. I haven’t won the first prize3, but my application was interesting enough to impress the evaluation committee and I ended up amongst the top 10.
Programming in a fresh, unknown language can be very frustrating, but successfully completing an application can be equally4 satisfying. The most important fact is to never give up if you don’t understand a concept at first – the best way is to keep learning and/or trying. Knowing one programming language may be good enough, but knowing four or five is much better. So my next step is to learn Objective C and port “KjeSeRoka” to it. To finish my thought – as of now I’m available for Android Application Development and if you have a challenging project, feel free to contact me. I’m interested in cooperation, partnering, sharing ideas and my services are, obviously, for hire too.
And remember, contributions earn you karma ;)
The necessary “first” post
Jun 28th
Hello World! :P
Well, today is the day. I’ve finally managed to set up a blog in English. Some of you may have read my blog in Slovene (Internet Solutions) – and I must note that this blog will contain similar, if not the same, content. I registered this domain in January 2008, and since then this has been just a dumping ground. I’ve made my final decision about this step after I returned from Netherlands, where I was attending the Dutch PHP Conference 2009 (DPC).
Considering the fact that PHP is distributed under Open Source license, there was much debating why developers should contribute code to an Open Source Software projects. Especially one discussion was completely devoted to contribution. Software Architect for Zend Framework Matthew Weier O’Phinney was talking about various ways we can contribute to open source projects and earn our “karma”. Developers who are using the work of others, should take the responsibility and contribute back, even if this just means to translate a few pages of Project Documentation.
Hopefully I will be expecting some useful articles / contributions here in the nearby future.
And remember, contributions earn you karma ;)
