I had a hard time getting Xenserver 6.2 to install a new VM with the latest long-term-support version of Ubuntu (14.04). The process documented below, pieced together from several posts, leads to a fairly straight-forward install.

I normally use spaces in my files instead of tabs for indentation, with 4 being my default indent width. Sometimes, I need to change this on existing files to 2, so for the most part, the following sequence works. First,

set ts=4 sts=4 noet
retab!

This changes every …

This documents the steps necessary to enable Google Oauth in your web application for authentication.

Recently updated to Xcode 5.1 on my Mavericks install, and when I went to update a few Python PyPI packages like reportlab and fabric, I started hitting this error on the compile step:

clang: error: unknown argument: '-mno-fused-madd' [-Wunused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future]

After a little bit of googling, it seems like the …

Seems like there was a reason Chrome rendered the text on this web page rather poorly at first go: See this page, but basically you need to set the anti-aliasing for Chrome:

-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;

I run a plethora of local web applications that each listen on different ports, and I wanted to simplify their URLs so I could just type a hostname to access them:

I decided to start using Calibreas my main ebook management program.  I've been using it for online content from publications like the Economist and The New Yorker for a while now, but it's become increasingly difficult to manage my entire e-book library, having acquired several hundred books from Amazon …