Mike Milano

There is plenty of information on configuring SSL termination on Rackspace Load Balancers but it might be easy to stumble on setting up the intermediate certificate.

If you have the intermediate certificate configured wrong, you may see a big ugly "untrusted certificate" error in a browser like Firefox.

There are 3 fields to add a certificate to the load balancer: Certificate, Private Key, and Intermediate Certificate.

When using the Drupal module, Privatemsg, field data associated with private messages will remain in your database after a private message is deleted.

If you would like to remove related field data, including managed files associated with those fields, you can implement hook_privatemsg_message_flush().

Working with Angstrom was going well till I wanted to get Twisted running on it. I couldn't make it work, so I started looking at other options... and I'm glad I did!

I installed Ubuntu 13.10 and got Twisted running like a champ. Here are my notes.

The BeagleBoardUbuntu page offers a lot of good information, including a link to the pre-built image.

Here's some quick fun that can be had with a photocell, Raspberry Pie, and a little bit of Python code.

A `golang` package exists, but if you would like to install the latest (currently 1.2), you will need to download the source and compile it.

This was all done on a fresh Raspbian image loaded onto a 16GB SD Card.

1. Configure Raspbian

Installing or updating XDebug is not that difficult. The title indicates it's for OSX, but this should work pretty much the same on any Linux system running apache.

The first thing to do is backup your existing 'xdebug.so' file if you have it installed already. If this ends up not working out for some reason, you can always copy it back. If you're unsure where it is installed, search your php.ini file for "xdebug". The absolute path to the file should be defined in the 'zend_extension' setting.

Integrating XDebug into your IDE opens up a world of powerful debugging fu, but there's more to XDebug than that. There is an API you can leverage for alternate ways of peering into what's going on during that page load.

In this post I'll demonstrate some basic function tracing and related configurations.

When debugging interactively in an iPython terminal, it's possible to have your module code automatically reload when a file is updated.

All you need to do is run these 2 commands in the iPython terminal.

%load_ext autoreload
%autoreload 2

The interpreter says it better than I can...

import_this.py