This blog post has been the best instruction for installing nginx on centos 6.

http://www.banym.de/linux/centos/install-nginx-on-centos-6

UPDATE: another good post (this time it’s with php 5.4)

http://www.brunildo.org/test/img_center.html

My OS was centos 5.8 and was trying to install Phing for PHP Application packaging. However, installation would fail because of the old PEAR that I had. The pear that I had was from yum installation.

It turned out that I had to manually upgrade to the latest pear and the instruction that I found was at:

http://pear.php.net/manual/en/installation.getting.php

If old pear from the installation via YUM is on the OS, even updating PEAR itself would fail. Only way to upgrade is to do it manually per the instruction.

wget http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar
php go-pear.phar

The one that I used for the base dir during the installation was :

/usr/share/pear instead of /home/${USER}/pear.

I’m now in the process of consolidating servers into one. I am still using ubuntu for my personal server at rackspace and maybe in the future I might change it to centos or fedora as I’m using one of those at work a lot nowadays.

https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues/3057

Today was my last day at Yahoo!. The press says bad things about Yahoo!, but actually the work environment and benefits are very good comparing to other companies.

The reason of my departure (2nd time) is mainly because I want to become an entrepreneur one day and set my career direction toward it. I do not think I can be it right now, but I want a company where I can learn about it quickly and expand my network in the south bay.

I am a paid subscriber of Hulu plus to watch shows for exclusive hulu plus customer. Now it requires DISH network???

I do not get it.

It impressed me and I love it.

http://bartaz.github.com/impress.js/

UPDATE: So GoDaddy rejected my request to transfer my domain names to namecheap yesterday and they sent an email today saying “I’ve been selected for special 15% discount” Yay. Funny, I will make an angry call tomorrow.

——————-

I do not understand why they decided to reject my transfer?

Here’s an email content from namecheap.com

———————————————————————-
Namecheap.com
Domain Transfer Cancelled : ————
Date: 1/5/2012 9:11:48 PM
———————————————————————-

Dear xxxx,

This notice is to inform you that your domain transfer was cancelled
due to the reason mentioned below.

Domain Name : ———
Transferred for : 1 year(s)
Transfer Order ID : 4—-446
Credit Card / Funds Transaction ID : 8———97617

Reason for Cancellation :
Canceled – The current registrar has rejected transfer (please contact them for details)

The refund for this cancelled transfer has been issued to your Namecheap account. In rare cases, it might take up to 24 hours for the refund to be available in your account. Once available, you can use those funds to easily resubmit the transfer if you wish to do so.

Should you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at https://support.namecheap.com/

Sincerely,
Namecheap Team

http://www.namecheap.com/

———————————————————————–

I will see what godaddy has to say about the domain transfer. stay tuned!

It’s still in the process, but I don’t seem to be able to log in namecheap account pages…