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Marcos Placona on April 1, 2013

Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes It’s no secret that on the UNIX world, dotfiles play a very important part when it comes to making your terminal look good. Be it on Linux, be it on a Mac. Dotfiles are there so you can configure your favourite software to look just the way you like it. I especially use dotfiles [...]

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Marcos Placona on August 31, 2012

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes At work, we use Apache JMeter for load testing applications or API’s we build. JMeter is an amazing open source tool with an even more amazing community behind it, so if you’ve never used it, you surely are missing on a great piece of software. Anyway, one thing that [...]

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Marcos Placona on August 29, 2012

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes Disclaimer: This blog post is not meant to be timeless, meaning it will lose its relevancy as soon as the stuff I’ll mention below gets updated. I will do my best to keep up with the updates, and delete this blog post as soon as it becomes irrelevant. I’ve [...]

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Marcos Placona on July 29, 2012

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes At work, we’ve decided to start using enterprise queuing applications for ease of communication between our ColdFusion and .Net projects. For those who don’t know how queues work, if I had to summarize it I would say it’s like a database that stores all the messages sent from diverse [...]

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Marcos Placona on September 21, 2010

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes Or my website even…. I’ve run some updates on my server today, and got prompted to upgrade mySQL. All went well during the upgrade, but when trying to browse, I’d get the following message: “Error establishing a database connection” Initially I thought it would be mySQL daemon trying to [...]

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