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Guide: Deploying web.py on IIS7 using PyISAPIe
I spent the last week travailing away, trying to painfully find a way to deploy a web.py based API on IIS7 using PyISAPIe. As frustrations had begun to mount up, I had nearly decided to give up. Being...
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There is more to life than …
I came across this short but extremely powerful post on the gapingvoid blog. It not only moved me but forced me to question myself, to ask myself what is it that I’ve done in my life. I thought it...
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Mercurial: Merging changes from an untracked copy.
One of our project that is tracked using Mercurial and hosted remotely on BitBucket.org presented us with a version control conundrum we had not faced. This post is dedicated to describing the problem...
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Batman Arkham City on XBox 360
I’m what you can safely call a hardcore gamer. My stretch with gaming goes a long way, starting from a measly Atari computer dad bought me from abroad, migrating to PC gaming, and eventually shifting...
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A look at the year that went by!
There is little at least, if not a lot, to be gained from having an optimistic outlook towards life. I’ll be honest when I say I haven’t ever believed that entirely in my life. But from being...
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iPad
I own a Nokia E72 mobile phone. While I have not owned mobile phones longer than five years, I have in that time span been through two mobile brands. My very first mobile phone, gifted to me by father...
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iPad 2 WiFi greyed-out (N/A)
I purchased an Apple iPad 2 over half an year ago. I bought a Rilakkuma smart cover with it. The iPad was tugged inside the cover in the shop, and I never felt the need to take it out since. However...
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Mobile Safari Web Inspector on Safari on Mac.
If you tweak HTML and CSS and JavaScript on webpages, then you may appreciate how simple and convenient the plugin that goes by the name of Firebug for Firefox has made your life. I know it has for me....
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Disabling auto-correct on TweetBot for Mac
My favourite Twitter client on iOS is TweetBot. It is there on both my iPhone and my iPad. I simply love it. There can probably be no comparison between the Twitter for iPhone/iPad (or any other...
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Sleep bug on iOS 6.1.2 on iPhone 4S
I have been using an iPhone 4S for the most part of last year. I make it a point to keep iOS, which is the OS running on it, on it updated to the latest stable version. I am only a little hesitant...
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Django Login Session ID Extractor Script
In the not too distant past, I worked on an interesting web project in which my participation lasted a brief period. I enjoyed the time I spent working on it. It was a project based on Django and...
View ArticleMigrating ayaz.wordpress.com to blog.ayaz.pk
I started blogging almost ten years ago (circa 2004). Every time I look at that stat, I feel overwhelmed. I wrote well before 2004, but didn’t publish most of it, and whatever I did publish on a...
View ArticleTell vim to write with sudo
It not uncommon to find yourself editing a file on a Linux/Unix system as a normal user who has sudo privileges to realise that the file is in read-only mode and in order to write to it you will have...
View ArticleThe stack behind this blog
I talked about moving my blog hosted on WordPress.com to my custom domain and hosting it on my server. It was a move I had wanted to make for a long time. Today, I am going to don my technical hat and...
View ArticleEpoch and Unix Timestamp conversion
If you use Linux (or Unix), it is highly unlikely you have not come across epoch. For Linux, as well as Unix, epoch is historically a significant entity. Epoch defines the number of seconds that have...
View ArticlePearls before breakfast
“The violin is an instrument that is said to be much like the human voice, and in this musician’s masterly hands, it sobbed and laughed and sang — ecstatic, sorrowful, importuning, adoring,...
View ArticleThe state of certificate revocation in Chrome
In the wake of the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug, revocation of potentially affected certificates became an immediate necessity. There was a great risk of malicious attackers who, having stolen SSL keys,...
View Articlekeybase.io/ayaz
I’m finally on keybase.io. I also have four invites available. If you are looking for one, please send me your GPG/PGP public key ID as well as your email address, and I’ll send an invite your way....
View ArticleYou must learn to touch type
If you love typing, you have got to read The Joy of Typing. It is everything I have ever wanted to say on the topic of learning to touch type. I have major beef with people–especially those in...
View ArticleHow to silence nodes on Sensu
Sensu is an open source monitoring framework, written purely in Ruby, that we use heavily at Cloudways to monitor not only the servers of our customers but our own as well. Sensu is very extensive. If...
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