Where did all the bankers go from the collapsed / bankrupt banks?

Ari — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:27:15 +0000

Ever wonder what happens to the "human capital" of an investment bank when it goes bankrupt? LinkedIn decided to do an analysis of the career paths of people employed by Lehman Brothers / Bear Stearns when they hit rock bottom:

(Graphic from LinkedIn Blog)

Installing NGINX, MySQL, PHP-FPM & XCache on CentOS 5.3 HOWTO

Ari — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:54:20 +0000

This post is pretty technical; if you don't consider yourself a geek, you'll likely want to skip it.

Apache is the most popular web server in the world. That doesn't necessarily mean its the best for all tasks though.

NGINX ("Engine X") is another web server. NGINX has been gaining quite a bit of popularity recently as it seems to run more efficiently than Apache, enabling less powerful web servers to handle a larger number of requests. This higher efficiency has made NGINX very popular in the virtual private server (VPS) scene.

I have a few VPS I use for experimentation / pet projects, and recently decided to give NGINX a try. But why stop there with the experimentation? Why not install XCache & PHP-FPM as well?

NGINX
yum install nginx
(The config file will be installed to /etc/nginx/nginx.conf - check it out, much cleaner than httpd.conf imho)

PHP-FPM
../configure --with-libevent=/usr/lib --with-fpm --with-mcrypt --with-zlib -
-enable-mbstring --with-openssl --with-mysql --with-mysql-sock --with-gd --with-
jpeg-dir=/usr/lib --enable-gd-native-ttf --without-sqlite --disable-pdo --disabl
e-reflection --with-mysqli=/usr/bin/mysql_config --with-curl --prefix=/usr/local
/php --with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php.d

XCACHE
./configure --enable-xcache --with-php-config=/usr/local/php/bin/php-config
make
make install
cp xcache.ini /etc/php.d/xcache.ini
vi xcache.ini
zend_extension = /usr/local/php/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/xcache.so

One man's trash is another's treasure (Mini Cooper Cardboard box campaign)

Ari — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:50:41 +0000

Dutch advertising agency Ubachswisbrun JWT recent post-Christmas campaign for mini is awesome.

(found at Creative Criminals)

New Mediaist - The Home of Ari Shomair

Where did all the bankers go from the collapsed / bankrupt banks?

Installing NGINX, MySQL, PHP-FPM & XCache on CentOS 5.3 HOWTO

One man's trash is another's treasure (Mini Cooper Cardboard box campaign)