Personal blog · since 2007

Mikhail Andreev.

I write code, ride a board, and take notes to remember.

Code, skateboarding and a little drifting.

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All Python Django Linux FreeBSD Docker …

2022

Docker Compose. Restoring Access to PostgreSQL

15 JanuaryDocker PostgreSQL docker-compose

2021

Debugging in docker-compose

19 Maypdb Debug PuDB

A Quick Guide to Configuring ProFTPd

27 AprilFTP

2020

Sniffing HTTPS Traffic in Chromium with Wireshark

2 DecemberHTTPS Sniffing Wireshark

Simple healthcheck to Kafka for docker-compose

25 NovemberKafka Docker docker-compose

Darktooth: A Pleasant Theme for Emacs

8 SeptemberEmacs

Installing Python 3.7.7 on Debian 9

12 MayDebian Python Python 3

27 DecemberLenovo

Setting Up Jenkins Nodes on FreeBSD

2 JuneFreeBSD CI Jenkins

Debian. The Jenkins Continuous Integration Server for Continuous Testing of Django Projects

25 MayDebian Django Nginx

FreeBSD. Redirecting outgoing traffic over a VPN with ipfw forward

14 MarchFreeBSD IPFW VPN

Django. Social Login with django-social-auth

27 FebruaryDjango Authorization Social networks

FreeBSD. Installing and Configuring an ejabber 2 Server

20 FebruaryErlang Jabber XMPP

Supervisor. Setting Up the Web Interface

14 FebruaryFreeBSD Nginx Python

Erlang. Fix run multiple copies of epmd

11 FebruaryFreeBSD Erlang

Nagios. Common Problems When Using NRPE

11 JanuaryDebian FreeBSD Linux

Running Remote Commands for Nagios with NRPE

11 JanuaryDebian FreeBSD Linux

Debian. Setting up our own OpenVPN server, forwarding, and client

10 JanuaryDebian Linux VPN

Debian. Installing and Configuring Nagios Monitoring

6 JanuaryDebian Linux Nagios

Nagios. Sending SMS via LittleSMS

6 JanuaryNagios Monitoring SMS

FreeBSD. Installing and Configuring Nagios Monitoring

5 JanuaryFreeBSD Nagios Monitoring

2012

Installing, Configuring, and Connecting RSyslog and Sentry

15 DecemberDjango FreeBSD Linux

Aggregating Exceptions and Logs with Sentry

4 DecemberDjango Jira Python

MySQL: Problems, Solutions, and Consequences

4 DecemberMySQL Oracle

Fast resize and caching of images with "django-nginx-image"

10 NovemberDjango Nginx Python

FreeBSD. Installing and Configuring supervisor

2 NovemberFreeBSD Python Monitoring

Python. Debugging with pdb

7 OctoberDebug Django PuDB

Bought Myself 4 Books Today

3 OctoberBooks Personal

Python. Using the Travis CI Continuous Integration Service

2 OctoberPython CI

Nice to meet, KinsburgTV!

29 SeptemberDjango Kinsburg

Django. A Custom QuerySet and Manager for Adding Extra Methods to a Call Chain

24 AugustDjango Python

Released a pluggable application "django-sql-stacktrace"

23 AugustDjango MySQL Python

The "django-lictor" for Django Dash 2012

21 AugustDjango Python Releases

Python. Automating Deployment and Routine Tasks with Fabric

14 AugustDeploy Django Fabric

Goodbye, WordPress!

8 AugustDjango Wordpress

Python. Building a Virtual Environment with virtualenv

19 JuneDjango easy_install pip

MySQL. Recovering a Password with Physical Access to the Server

12 JuneLinux MySQL

Debian. Installing and Configuring Jira + GreenHopper

10 MayDebian DotDeb Jira

Debian. Installing and Configuring Gitweb + Nginx

30 AprilDebian FreeBSD Git

Android and the LG P500. Removing Preinstalled Apps

29 AprilAndroid LG Linux

Python and Git. Automatically Checking Code for Specification Compliance

31 MarchDjango Git Hooks

Debugging Python/Django with PuDB

24 MarchDebug Django IPython

FreeBSD and Debian. Installing and Configuring Gitolite

22 MarchDebian FreeBSD Git

FreeBSD and Debian. Installing and Configuring Gitosis

21 MarchDebian FreeBSD Git

Processing LESS "on the fly" with Nginx and Node.js

4 MarchLESS Linux Nginx

jQuery. Wrote a plugin "jquery-cleverfocus"

1 MarchjQuery Releases

Python. Working with xls using xlwt/xlrd and python-uno

28 FebruaryExcel Python xls

Released a pluggable application "django-multi-sessions"

27 FebruaryDjango Python Releases

Setting up an SSD on Xubuntu Linux

24 FebruaryLinux SSD ThinkPad

Impressions of the ThinkPad x220i

19 FebruaryLenovo ThinkPad Vaio

Accessing Wikipedia While the SOPA Screen Is in Place

18 JanuarySOPA Wiki Wikipedia

2011

FreeBSD. Updating the Time Zone at the President's Command

8 NovemberFreeBSD

Xubuntu. Login problems after upgrading from 11.04 to 11.10

25 OctoberLinux Ubuntu xubuntu

SSH. Key-Based Authentication

2 AugustFreeBSD SSH

Wordpress. Updating the core and plugins over SSH

1 AugustFreeBSD PHP Wordpress

Andrey Aksenov: “How to Cook with Sphinx” / master class, Kyiv, June 18

1 JuneSphinxSearch

FreeBSD. Installing MySQL 5.5.9 and SphinxSE

1 MarchFreeBSD MySQL SphinxSearch

2010

Nginx. Using PHP in FastCGI Mode with spawn-fcgi

25 NovemberFastCGI Nginx PHP

FreeBSD. XHProf for PHP Performance Analysis

24 NovemberFreeBSD PHP XHProf

Nginx. Caching with fastcgi_cache

20 NovemberFastCGI Nginx SSI

Mercurial. Automatically Updating a Project with Hooks

27 OctoberHooks Mercurial Triggers

FreeBSD. Moving from Subversion to Mercurial + Trac

25 OctoberFreeBSD Mercurial Subversion

Init Scripts for FreeBSD and Debian/Ubuntu

30 SeptemberDebian FreeBSD Linux

Picked up a couple of books today

25 SeptemberBooks Personal

Setting Up Ad Hoc in Windows for Use with Ubuntu and iPod Touch

25 Septemberad hoc iPod Linux

Ubuntu. Installing Extensions for PHP 5.3

18 SeptemberLinux Memcached PECL

A Year Since the Launch of Kinsburg.ru

27 AugustKinsburg

Well, I’m married!

19 August

Data Recovery in Ubuntu

27 JuneLinux Ubuntu

Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me!

3 JunePersonal

Django. The First Application

26 MayDjango Python

Ubuntu. Downgrading PHP from 5.3.2 to 5.2.10

17 MayLinux PHP Ubuntu

Initial Security Measures in FreeBSD

9 AprilBind FreeBSD IPFW

Restoring GRUB

5 AprilGRUB Linux Ubuntu

Ubuntu. Development Environment with Nginx+PHP5.3+FPM+MySQL

16 MarchLinux MySQL Nginx

MySQL. Stopping SQL Query Execution with a Trigger

2 MarchMySQL Triggers

Installing Ubuntu Netbook Remix on a Sony Vaio VPCW12Z1R

27 FebruaryLinux Ubuntu Vaio

Bought Myself a Vaio Mini-Laptop

22 FebruaryVaio

FreeBSD. Svnserve — running Subversion without Apache!

20 FebruaryApache FreeBSD Subversion

Yandex.Fotki 2.0.1 - bug fix

12 FebruaryWordpress Yandex

Moving Trac to Nginx and tracd

11 FebruaryCGI FastCGI Nginx

Installing node.js on FreeBSD and Using It with Nginx

2 FebruaryFreeBSD Nginx node.js

Nginx. Using PHP in FastCGI Mode with php-fpm

27 JanuaryCGI FastCGI Nginx

2009

Help Translate the IMagick Manual

15 NovemberImageMagick PECL PHP

Using Nginx+Tornado for Django Applications

15 NovemberDjango Nginx Python

PHP. heap corruption detected in phpQuery and Segmentation fault in PHP CLI

18 SeptemberPHP Segmentation failed Suhosin

Installing mod_python for Web Application Development in Python

28 AugustApache FreeBSD Python

Our New Project, Kinsburg.ru

28 AugustKinsburg

FreeBSD. Setting Up Your Own DNS Server with Bind9

26 AugustBind DNS FreeBSD

How Does Python Work?

22 AugustFreeBSD Python Windows

Installing the Python Interpreter and the PyDev Development Environment for Eclipse

22 AugustEclipse FreeBSD Python

Bought a Book on Django

20 AugustDjango Python Books

Introduction to Python

20 AugustApache Python

A Couple of New Services

9 AugustJavaScript jQuery RFC

Sphinx. What Are Delta Indexes For, and How Do You Set Them Up?

31 Julycron MySQL PHP

An Easy Way to Replace SMF's Default Search with Sphinx

30 JulyMySQL Pyha SMF

Bought a Book on Python

30 JulyPython Books

You can't update a table you're selecting from

27 JulyMySQL

Including Sphinx Config Files

23 JulyFreeBSD SphinxSearch Search engines

Installing and Configuring Trac on FreeBSD

20 JulyApache FreeBSD Hooks

#chown on root is scarier than #rm -rf /

15 JulyFreeBSD

Adding a Plugin to the WordPress.org Plugin Directory

3 JulyWordpress Yandex

Recovering InnoDB Table Structures

2 JulyInnoDB MySQL

Sphinx. Installing the pecl-sphinx PHP Extension

28 JunePECL PHP SphinxSearch

Sphinx and MySQL. Installing and Using the SphinxSE Engine

26 JuneFreeBSD MySQL SphinxSearch

Subversion. Automatically Updating a Project Using Hooks

25 JuneHooks Subversion Svn

WordPress Plugin — Yandex.Fotki 2.0

19 JuneAPI Wordpress Yandex

FreeBSD. No route to host

17 JuneFreeBSD

Sphinx. Installing, configuring, and using the search engine

15 JuneFreeBSD PHP SphinxSearch

MySQL Event Scheduler, or MySQL's Built-in Event Scheduler

12 Junecron MySQL

Effective Spam Protection for a WordPress Blog

8 JunePHP Wordpress Spam

The mysqldump Utility and an Options Cheat Sheet

7 JuneInnoDB MyISAM MySQL

Optimizing a Website with Google Page Speed and Dust-Me Selectors

6 JuneCSS FireFox Google

Birthday! 03+06=09

3 JunePersonal

Building Your Own Video Service and Setting Up Pseudostreaming

3 Juneffmpeg Flash flowplayer

A New Look for the Pyha.ru Homepage

2 JunePyha Releases

Creating a Proper robots.txt and sitemap.xml

29 MayGoogle SEO Wordpress

The Subclipse Eclipse plugin for working with SVN (Subversion)

28 MayEclipse Subversion Svn

I built the getDomains service!

27 MayDNS Releases Services

What's New in FreeBSD 7.2?

20 MayFreeBSD Releases

Java. Our First Program

20 MayJava OOP

Java. Installing the Development Environment and Eclipse IDE

20 MayEclipse Java JDK

The RSE Eclipse Plugin for Working with FTP and SFTP

19 MayEclipse FTP SFTP

FreeBSD. Passwordless SSH Access Using Encrypted Keys

8 MayFreeBSD SSH

FreeBSD. Using mpd5 as a VPN client (PPTP)

7 MayFreeBSD MPD PPTP

Callout Boxes for Downloads, Demos, and Footnotes on the Blog

6 MayWordpress

FireFox Extensions for Web Development

22 AprilFireFox

Programmers' excuses when something doesn't work :)

15 AprilPodcasting Humor

Working with XML Data and XPath in MySQL

13 AprilMySQL XML XPath

Sun Tech Days 2009 Report

10 AprilAJAX Books.ru Cloud Computing

Moved into an apartment!

5 AprilPersonal Saint Petersburg

FreeBSD. Installing and Configuring Yandex.Server

1 AprilFreeBSD Search engines Yandex

FreeBSD. DenyHosts Will Protect You from SSH Brute-Force Attacks

1 AprilDDOS FreeBSD SSH

FreeBSD. Fighting HTTP Floods with IPFW

31 MarchApache FreeBSD IPFW

Configuring Groups and Permissions in Subversion

28 MarchFreeBSD Subversion Svn

Configuring Gzip in Nginx

27 MarchGZip Nginx Optimization

Nginx and Apache2. Installation and Quick Configuration!

27 MarchApache FreeBSD Nginx

The SeoTools Service and Calculating PR and TIC with PHP

27 MarchGoogle PR SEO

FreeBSD. Installing and Configuring eAccelerator

27 MarchFreeBSD PHP Cache

Refactoring the Blog

26 MarchWordpress

I Bought "More Joel on Software"

4 MarchJoel On Software Books Personal

What Is Google Latitude?

4 MarchGoogle

FreeBSD. Backing Up Data with fsbackup

3 MarchFreeBSD FTP MySQL

FreeBSD. Ports, Packages, and Software Updates

3 MarchFreeBSD Linux

Sun Tech Days 2009

26 FebruaryJava MySQL Solaris

FreeBSD. Installing and Configuring Subversion

26 FebruaryFreeBSD Subversion Svn

Gmail won't let me register an email address :(

24 FebruaryGmail Google Personal

# rm -rf /* — or your whole life in a few seconds!

20 FebruaryFreeBSD Pyha

My Windows Software

20 FebruaryWindows

Installing and Configuring MediaWiki + 3 Useful Extensions

19 FebruaryPHP Wiki

What's New in FreeBSD 7.1?

18 FebruaryFreeBSD Releases

Yandex.Fotki 1.1 — a plugin for WordPress

17 FebruaryPHP Wordpress Cache

Java and Valentine's Day

14 FebruaryJava Books Personal

Updated to Wordpress 2.7.1

12 FebruaryWordpress Releases

Posting Announcements to Twitter via TwitterFeed

7 FebruaryTwitter Wordpress

Modeling Successful Blogs

6 FebruaryWordpress

Podcasts I Listen To!

23 JanuaryPodcasting

WordPress Hyper Cache 2.0 Plugin

16 JanuaryWordpress Cache

WordPress Plugins I Use!

14 JanuaryWordpress

MySQL. Counting Occurrences of a Substring in a String

14 JanuaryMySQL

FreeBSD. Installing and Configuring ProFTPD

8 JanuaryFreeBSD FTP

FreeBSD. Recovering the root Password

5 JanuaryFreeBSD

Yandex.Fotki — a WordPress plugin

5 JanuaryPHP Wordpress Yandex

Google Non-AJAX Language API

1 JanuaryAJAX API cUrl

2008

ImageCrop using jQuery, the imgAreaSelect plugin, and PHP GD

26 DecemberAJAX GD ImageMagick

Compressing and Minifying CSS with Code Beautifier

14 NovemberCSS GZip Optimization

Compressing a Site with mod_deflate

14 NovemberApache FreeBSD GZip

Pykha Informer 3.1

14 NovemberPHP Pyha Releases

Getting ID3 Tags with PHP

12 NovemberID3 PHP

Don't bite robots on their shiny metal asses!

13 OctoberFireFox Humor

Added Gravatars to the Theme

30 SeptemberPHP Wordpress

A Guide to Developing a "School Pornal"

29 SeptemberHumor

And we'll fucking hit Tbilisi!

26 SeptemberMoskva.RU Humor

Moscow won't sink ;)

21 SeptemberExp!Moskva.RU Personal

I made a new service: browsInfo!

7 SeptemberPHP Releases Services

Bought myself a little monitor :)

7 SeptemberPersonal

Paintball

25 AugustExp!Moskva.RU Personal

Return of the Prodigal Parrot...

24 AugustPersonal

Microsoft Releases a Beta Version of Internet Explorer 8

7 MarchMicrosoft Releases

The getVideo service: downloading video files from video hosting sites!

7 MarchReleases Services

Sun Tech Days 2008

3 MarchJava MySQL Solaris

How Programmers Build a House :)

15 FebruaryHumor

Android is taking over the mobile world!

14 FebruaryAndroid Google

How to Update WordPress Properly

6 FebruaryWordpress

Ringtones for Geeks!

4 FebruaryGeek Ringtones

Finally updated WordPress to 2.3.2

2 FebruaryMySQL PHP Wordpress

A List of Plugins for FireFox 2—Making Life Easier for Web Programmers!

31 JanuaryFireFox JavaScript

For Beginner Bloggers! Setting Up Cross-Posting

19 JanuarySEO Wordpress

2007

Time to Make Your Code Compatible with PHP 6

13 DecemberPHP

For Beginner Bloggers! Choosing a Blog, Registering with Directories, Search Engines, and Bookmarking Sites

12 DecemberWordpress

Seodigger.com now speaks Russian!

11 DecemberSEO Services

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