On 16th of December, about two weeks ago, Betfair suddenly announced around 40 job redundancies across the whole business, both in Melbourne and Hobart. That morning after the announcement, I could sense the chaos atmosphere, I could feel that everyone was nervous, but I wasn’t, because I have come through the same …
The online course provider for developers/designers Learnable has recently partnered with New Relic, to offer any new New Relic customers who deploy New Relic on their web servers with one year of free subscription on Learnable. I have signed up with New Relic with free account, deployed it to the Virpus server …
Setting up debugging locally on one machine (both Netbeans and xdebug on the same host) is easy enough. However, if you want to connect Netbeans to a xdebug over to a guest virtual machine, it will require a bit of work, but not hard. My host machine is Windows 7 …
Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy) comes with PHP 5.5.3 and does not enable mcrypt by default. I am currently working on a personal project that requires to use mcrypt to encrypt and decrypt data. So I will need to enable it manually. To enable mcrypt is easy, simply following the steps below: …
I have been working with Oozie for quite a few weeks, and the experience so far has been quite positive. It is quite easy to learn, given that you understands XML and Hadoop ecosystem. However, there is one limitation that is quite annoying, although I understand the purpose behind the …
My new Snowflake Blog is now live. I will not be updating this blog anymore but will continue with new contents in the Snowflake world!