As heard on Club FG 27-12-2008 – Laidback Luke
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Ausca – RSS joiner module
The Ausca ruby gem features an RSS joiner module that can be used to combine multiple RSS feeds into a single RSS feed.
This functionality is useful for creating scraper and news sites which aggregate news from outside sources.
As seen on http://sourcey.com/combining-multiple-rss-feeds/
14 Rules for Faster-Loading Web Sites, from Steve Souders
Prometheus, open-source service monitoring system and time series database from SoundCloud
I LOVE SOUNDCLOUD!
From time to time I read their tech blog…
Today I’v found Prometheus! Hooray SoundCloud! Hooray!
Prometheus
An open-source service monitoring system and time series database.
Prometheus is developed in the open and has a growing community outside of SoundCloud.

PHPList on a Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS, Trusty Tahr
I’v installed PHPList on a fresh VPS with Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS.
I was trying to send emails and I was getting the following error Could not instantiate mail function.
on a fresh VPS with…
- PHP5 IMAP
- Sendmail
sudo apt-get install php5-imap
and
sudo apt-get install sendmail-bin
Probably only this last one was enough.
It worked!
Hooray!
Bootstrap, two nice **addons**
Best jQuery plugin to validate form fields
Fuel UX extends Bootstrap with additional lightweight JavaScript controls for your web applications.
- Checkbox
- Combobox
- Datepicker
- Infinite Scroll
- Loader
- Pillbox
- Placard
- Radio
- Repeater
- Scheduler
- Search
- Selectlist
- Spinbox
- Tree
- Wizard
Cloudflare Force or redirect to HTTPS in Nginx
I need to redirect anyone that enters on a specific domain/subdomain to use https protocol…
This is how
server {
...
if ($http_x_forwarded_proto = "http") {
return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}
...
}
Grabbed from http://serverfault.com/questions/250476/how-to-force-or-redirect-to-ssl-in-nginx
VideoJS – full width
So,
I’m deploying a VideoJS on a website since HTML5 player player doesn’t has sound control…. I want the player to have 100% of the div’s width…. any normal attempt – css, inline css blablabla didn’t worked….
From several solutions that I’v found on the interwebs 🙂 this was the one that worked out… THIS ONE! –> http://jsfiddle.net/alexbell/Zs5WB/
It was posted on VideoJS – Auto height based on aspect ratio #771 by baloneysandwiches.
On his post there’s a reference for a 2009 article on A List Apart – Creating Intrinsic Ratios for Video.

