When Brains Fly

I now have an instance running using a 32-bit Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid build with EBS boot from the folks at Alestic.
Note to self: just stop, don’t terminate the instance. You cannot restart a terminated instance.
I installed lots of useful stuff, including the ubuntu-desktop, which I only wanted to have so that I can test VNC, [...]

Signing up for Amazon EC2 now for an inexpensive VPS-like solution, where I can tinker with a live web server for which I have root access and can install and configure whatever I want. I also considered Rackspace Cloud Servers, but though they may be a bit faster, they’re a bit more pricey for my [...]

I finally have an HTML5 WebSockets example up and running! Yes! Only took me an hour of trying various tutorials before stumbling upon one that works for my Windows/Cygwin setup and is easy to configure. Thank you, Pedro @ http://diffract.me/2009/12/websockets-tutorialexample-with-pywebsocket/.
In other news, I am spending my summer in the always either too chilly or too [...]

All right, I folded. I inverted every color on this site and tweaked them a bit. Much more readable, although slightly less “cool.”
Here is the old site look, for posterity:

Since I myself was having trouble reading through the paragraphs of the last post, I decided to look on the internet for why that might be and solutions for that. This was a useful post. I guess my eyes are just not well suited for light text on dark backgrounds, which stinks because I really [...]

Yesterday, I spent much of the day playing around with Javascript and PHP. I had the idea to create a simple web front-end to access the Weewar API and control bots, an alternative to the current main method of controlling bots, which is to use existing non-web-based Java programs to call the API or use [...]

I just spent the last fifteen minutes trying to figure out why my HTTP GET request was hanging on input. I had had this problem a few days ago and solved it somehow, but I completely forgot how. It turns out, I just forgot to put a blank line at the end of my GET [...]

Is this color scheme readable? White text on black / dark blue background? Let me know if it’s not. I think it’s mostly fine, although there are times when it feels harder to read paragraphs in my blog than it does elsewhere with black text on white.
Also, let me know what you think of [...]

As part of a new hobby/freelance project, I’ve been trying out the Citrus Framework, an integration test framework written in Java for SOA application. It’s quite neat and interesting. Right now, I’m using it mostly for testing sequences of HTTP GET and POST requests, and it works pretty nicely so far, although I did have [...]

I have to look this up so many times that I figured I should just blog about it and have it in one easy-to-find place. =)
Text/cursor control:

Alt-B / Alt-F
Move the cursor backward/forward one word

Ctrl-W / Alt-D
Delete one word to the left/right

Ctrl-A / Ctrl-E
Move the cursor to the beginning/end of the line

Ctrl-U / Ctrl-K
Erase line [...]