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Tableau server doesn’t have this option by default in their website https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/architecture/tableau-server/     Open their template file https://aws-quickstart.s3.amazonaws.com/quickstart-tableau-server/templates/tableau-single-server-master.template I wanted the Ubuntu instance. I could figure out that the Ubuntu Template exists here: https://aws-quickstart.s3.amazonaws.com/quickstart-tableau-server/templates/tableau-single-server-ubuntu.template   Edit [...]

Install dovecot with `brew install dovecot` Open /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # A comma separated list of IPs or hosts where to listen in for connections. # "*" listens in all IPv4 interfaces, "::" listens in all IPv6 interfaces. # If you want to specify non-default ports or anything more complex, # edit conf.d/master.conf. listen = 127.0.0.1 # Protocols we want to [...]

.There seems to be a fork of Sparkle which supports Sandboxing. It’s current in beta. The install instructions are slightly confusing. Download the latest build from https://github.com/sparkle-project/Sparkle/tree/ui-separation-and-xpc  Open Terminal and cd into the directory run ‘make release’ That will open up a directory with all the needed files. The update signing is more [...]

If you have a page that takes a lot of time to generate the cache. The first user who stumbles upon it is in pain. Sometimes it times out before it gets generated completed. So, I created a method in one of the helper class def self.recreate_cache the_controller = ActionController::Base.new # Set any instance variables required by your partial in the controller, # they [...]

I was trying to store Random IVs generated for AES encryption but couldn’t store them into a PostgreSQL database. The Random IVs generated were binary data. So, you have to escape them. While storing, do this PGconn.escape_bytea(data) While retrieving, do this PGconn.unescape_bytea(data)  

I thought I would quickly post this. Use the usual command to generate the scaffold. rails generate scaffold Model then in routes.rb   Change resource :models to resource :models, :path => ‘model’

I was applying for RubyConf India scholarship which I want to go badly. I missed the last one in Bangalore because I wasn’t in the Ruby scene back then. They did have this question: Briefly describe your current experience with computers and computer programming Midway through writing the answer when I figured it was pretty long, unnecessary and would make a nice blogpost after a long break. [...]

My friend wanted access to a computer at college because he was working on his college project where they had to create a cloud farm using OpenStack. He wanted to work from home (that is one of the perk if you are a software person). The computer was behind the college NAT. So, doing something like this would need the SysAdmin and presumably a convoluted process. I found this nice remote forwarding [...]

I had been looking for a WordPress WXR (WordPress eXtended RSS) export file splitter as some hosts has limits over the upload file size limit and at times, I don’t get root access to edit the PHP.ini to lift the limits. Windows has a neat little tool that helps people split WXR export files. http://www.rangerpretzel.com/content/view/20/1/ Sadly, at the time of this writing, none seems to be available [...]

Another quick little snippet. This is when you use it in a loop. $my_post = array(); $my_post['ID'] = $post->ID; $catarray = array(31); // 31 is the cat ID you want to assign foreach((get_the_category($post->ID)) as $category) { array_push($catarray, $category->cat_ID); } $my_post['post_category'] = $catarray; wp_update_post( $my_post [...]