One rainy Saturday morning

This is a non typical rainy Saturday at the start of march :)



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How to set SSL version when sending requests via SoapClient?

Every now and then you are required to work on a API which is pretty big. However, the SSL version they have used is depreciated one so you cannot use standard SoapClient class to communicate with them. The following snippet allows you to create your wrapper class which extends SoapClient and allows you to execute [...]



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Adding SWAP Memory in Linux

Linux divides its physical RAM (random access memory) into chucks of memory called pages. Swapping is the process whereby a page of memory is copied to the pre-configured space on the hard disk, called swap space, to free up that page of memory. The combined sizes of the physical memory and the swap space is [...]



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Mr Zoom

You have been with us in all the ups and downs in the last 3 years. You were there when we were renting, you were there when we were road tripping, you were there when we went to QLD. You have brought fun and joy to our lives, but now its time for you to [...]



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Building a LAMP system using Puppet

I have always been interested in sysadmin, however the thing that annoyed me was trying to remember the config file contents. Back in the day when I used to work for Boss Pacific Information Systems, I would find the idea of setting up servers very interesting. In the mean time, the tedious task of remembering which config file to change and what to change was a bit daunting.

Recently, I have been introduced to Puppet script which has been used in my work environment has proven its importance.

"Puppet manages your servers: you describe machine configurations in an easy-to-read declarative language, and Puppet will bring your systems into the desired state and keep them there."

This tutorial will show you how to create a simple puppet script to build a LAMP system which is the base for any web system. The components required for a web system such as apache, mysql etc are all available as modules from Puppet Forge

Rough-it up

My mate Mushroom roughing it up at the park this morning. May be its something that comes with white fur, you just want to rough it up and get dirty.

Luckily, today was his grooming day. He had a good clip and bath and this is what he looks like now.

Bit different, hey? I know. He looks like a different dog. Every time he gets a grooming, we have to double check to make sure we picked up the right dog :)

Aww the love

We left our beloved mushroom behind at home for few days to go and explore beautiful cairns. Come back and now he is terrified that we will leave him again and will be gone for few days. So he tries to pull every trick in the book to make us stay home. Breaks my heart :(

This morning he managed to have his face dirty, mind you, this dog is a princess and do not like dirt and being dirty.

PS: we had lovely couple house sit for us and look after Mushroom while we were away.

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