Amazon EC2 – Installing Apache and PHP boilerplate

Amazon EC2 – Installing Apache and PHP boilerplate

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.

Bootstrap modals via JavaScript

Bootstrap modals via JavaScript

My recent discovery is quite simple, but really usefull. Bootbox.js is a small JavaScript library which allows you to create programmatic dialog boxes using Twitter’s Bootstrap modals, without having to worry about creating, managing or removing any of the required DOM elements or JS event handlers.
Exception tracking in real time

Exception tracking in real time

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 ?

Gearman installation on CentOS and AMI Linux

Gearman installation on CentOS and AMI Linux

Gearman provides a generic application framework to farm out work to other machines or processes that are better suited to do the work.

This solution is truly multiplatform, so we have Client API and Wordkres in multiple languages like Shell, Perl, NodeJS any couple of others (PHP!)