Software

It’s coming with experience. On the beginning you always trying to do everything by your self. No frameworks, no libraries – bare bone solutions written from the scratch. Later – you realising than your time is to expensive, and start using some libraries. After another period of time you are getting to the point, that you are willing to use as many existing solutions as it’s possible.

Really typical problem – sending and receiving emails from the apps. Of course – you can send emails using simple mail () command or using more sophisticated libraries like Swiftmailer but… if there is an option to use API, you can chose from couples:

Yes… we have ongoing problem with that really simple function. So – what’s happening. Let’s assume that we have really simple Page Tab existing inside out Facebook Page. URL usually looks like that:  http://www.facebook.com/spidersoftau/app_334933569956732  – works perfectly on Desktop browser, but if you would like to open this on mobile, you will get nasty error

In this extremely simply tutorial I’m going to show, how you can deploy basic LAMP stack on EC2 instance. Instruction are pretty basic, without extra comments. You can just copy and paste command to get working stack in lest then 15 minutes.

What you can learn from it? How to install Apache and PHP, how to enable and run XCache accelerator, and how to run HTTPS on your server, with purchasing SSL certificate.

Don’t know how accurate it is. I was working on a project that needed something like that, so… maybe someone else will use it.

Everyone knows that Exception tracking, debugging and checking logs is pain in the ass. Especially when our APP works on multiple servers, or we have different environments, languages which are working as a part of big project. Recently I found exceptional tool created by Disqus team called  Sentry . What is Sentry ?