I finally successfully installed hack installed on OSX. Here are the steps I followed: I followed the steps on this page using the “Install by Hand” method: https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/wiki/Building-and-installing-HHVM-on-OSX-10.9 Everything was cool, until I got to the step when I needed to enter the make command: 1make -j4 The make ran successfully until the very end,
I was contacted by Packt Publishing to be a part of the technical review team for the book on Learning Cassandra for Administrators. If you are interested in picking up on Cassandra check it out. Link to book
I recently released a PHP client that implements the CQL binary protocol. I wanted to explain how to get started using the client and provide a walk through for getting this setup. Installing Not to much to install, just copy the code to your server and you should be ready to go. You do need
I have released an initial commit for a PHP client that implements the CQL binary protocol. This is a work in progress but it is functional enough for you to send queries to a Cassandra cluster. I’m building tests first then implementing the functionality, so I should have decent test coverage when complete. The tests
Updating Eclipse from Juno to Kepler in 5 simple steps. My PDT(PHP), Ruby, EGit, and SVN plugins all work after the update. 1. Click Help > Install New Software. 2. Click the add button and add this location: http://download.eclipse.org/releases/kepler/ 3. After a short wait, the location has been added, click Cancel. 4. Click Help >
This is part two to my previous post about adding Cassandra, Hadoop and Hive to the infrastructure at work. We are building a new web based application and wanted to add features that the current infrastructure would not support. We needed to get our web and database development teams trained on Cassandra, we used DataStax
I was installing RedSleeve onto my new Raspberry PI and needed to fix a problem when writing the image onto the SD card. I kept getting “Permission denied” error messages, when issuing the command to write the image. Let’s see… Am I using sudo? Yes I am. Is the disk unmount before trying to write
I was reading about Impala, a fast big data store from Cloudera, and I noticed only Ruby and a Java had clients. Why no PHP client for Impala. So, I thought I would give it a go at creating one. After a lot of reading and studying both the Java and the Ruby clients I
Taking a screenshot on Mac OSX, the name of the text file with the instructions for taking screenshots on my desktop, because I can’t seem to remember the key sequence. I thought this would be a good topic for a blog post, for myself and others that need a quick helper on the subject.
I was recently asked what was my definition of a manager. Ok. I am in a management role at my current job, I should be able to answer this question relatively easy. My response, “A manager is responsible for removing roadblocks so the team they are managing can work with the least amount of interference
