If you’re reading this blog, then there’s a good chance that you make use of my PPA for Node.js. I started making Node packages several years ago because I wanted there to be a consistent way for people to install up-to-date versions of Node on their machines. Not too long ago, Dan Shaw reached out to me to ask if there was anything he could do to help with the PPAs and give back to the effort. I had been looking for a way to ensure that what I’m doing satisfies the needs of Node developers, and also to make sure the project continues to receive the support it needs. We talked about how best to make this happen and decided to move things over to NodeSource from Launchpad. Here’s why.
Getting Debian Packages Sources from Launchpad
Occasionally people ask me for the sources to Debian packages that I publish on Launchpad. As it turns out, the sources are already there, you just have to know how to get to them. Fortunately it’s trivially easy to do.
A Production Quality WordPress Configuration Tutorial
The blogging software used to power this site, WordPress, has just had its 10th anniversary. In the last decade it has become incredibly popular, and currently accounts for about 18% of all websites. Due to my job at (mt) Media Temple, I’ve gotten to admin several popular blogs at various times over the years, and thus have a pretty good idea of how to optimize everything for good efficiency. In this WordPress configuration tutorial, I’m going to walk you through the production quality setup that I have for this blog, which makes use of Ubuntu Linux, Nginx, php5-fpm and MariaDB.
Upgrading from Node.js 0.8.x to 0.10.0 From my PPA
The Node.js project recently pushed out a new stable version with the 0.10.0 release. This release supersedes the 0.8.x line and has a bunch of new features and enhancements. In particular, there’s a new Streams API you’ll probably want to check out. Also, the domain module has been elevated to “unstable” status, so you can start checking it out for your error handling. A lot of people seem to use my node PPA to install node on their systems, so I wanted to make a quick note about performing this upgrade.