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Excuse the mess while I’m moving away from MediaTemple. It feels so good to be home in Latvia on a speedy VPS.

There is a handy little WordPress feature that I had not used before:

define('RELOCATE', true);

which allows you to set up a temporary domain name while your new name server records are spreading across the internets. For example, if you changed the NS record for example.com, you could use new.otherdomain.com to access the site you’re moving. Normally WordPress would try to redirect you to example.com (which is it’s site_url).

This server uses PHP 5.3 with PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) patch and APC opcode cache. Several minutes after activating APC, I noticed that some pages stopped loading. Turns out it was because of an APC timebomb bug which is when all cache writes got locked because of expiring cache entries and new writes happening at the same time. The temporary solution is to add apc.write_lock = 1 in php.ini.

Excuse the mess while I’m moving away from MediaTemple. It feels so good to be home in Latvia on a speedy VPS.

There is a handy little WordPress feature that I had not used before:

define('RELOCATE', true);

which allows you to set up a temporary domain name while your new name server records are spreading across the internets. For example, if you changed the NS record for example.com, you could use new.otherdomain.com to access the site you’re moving. Normally WordPress would try to redirect you to example.com (which is it’s site_url).

Patent Absurdity: how software patents broke the system.

ST-131 launch on April 6th, 2010

STS-131 is now in the orbit (view on map). There is a live video stream available from the mission control in Houston.

I spent many hours watching these videos from their preparation for this mission. Amazing people and phenomenal work.

Select images for each gallery

I have updated the Multiple Galleries plugin to work with WordPress 2.9 and also 3.0-beta1. Another good news is that the plugin is now in the official repository. Those of you who are already using the very first version of this plugin will get an automatic notification that there is an update available. How lovely.