Possibly you have seen Lens manufacturer Zeiss to write the phrases like Planar and Tessar. What these terminologies mean and how they work? Planar Lens Design is registered trademark taken by Paul Rudolph for Carl Zeiss. In the same way, Tessar is also a design by the same physicist Paul Rudolph in 1902. We will not discuss about Tessar in this article rather limit our discussion within the topic … [Read more...]
Monitor Rackspace Cloud Server from OpenShift PaaS with rxalarm
Yes! You can actually monitor, set alarm for your Rackspace Cloud Server from free OpenShift PaaS with a great project named rxalarm. OpenShift PaaS and OpenStack IaaS. As a practical statement, a good read will be - Cloud Computing Service Models for those who can not understand the difference between PaaS and IaaS. We can run OpenShift instance of our own (not hosted by Red Hat) on Rackspace … [Read more...]
Characteristics of Software Defined Storage (SDS)
As with anything in this World, Software Defined Storage (SDS) also has some defined characteristics. Explained in plain English. Software brings intelligence to the IT infrastructure and architecture. On this trend of everything being defined by software - we have talked about Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) before. Now, quite a few storage hardware vendors try to jump up and claim that they … [Read more...]
Migrate Files Efficiently in the Cloud with Mover Tool
Mover is an online service which can migrate files from one cloud service to another. It Supports almost all popular cloud storage services. When we are talking about Cloud Storage Service, one can read an interesting article - Quality Comparison of Cloud Storage Services. After PRISM and HearBleed reveals, we have to take only few Cloud Storage services are dependable. There are enough reason to … [Read more...]
Water and Portrait Photography
Portrait Photography is indispensable part of life just like water. Less is said about Water and Portrait Photography duet than it deserves. Some sub-niche gets a bit less importance in Photography. Portrait Photography is such a wider niche that it can easily be sub-divided in to few sub-niches. In our previous publication, we talked about Point of View Shot in Portrait Photography, which we … [Read more...]
Enable Varnish Cache Purging on Ubuntu 14.04 PVHVM (Rackspace)
Enable Varnish Cache Purging on Ubuntu 14.04 PVHVM on Rackspace Cloud Server. This settings is important for WordPress plus W3 Total Cache. We started from here - Install WordPress on Rackspace Cloud Server (Ubuntu 14.04 PVHVM). It is quite important to read this guide - Advanced Tweaks and Optimization for Varnish Cache before you read this article. We usually deliver websites via load balancers. … [Read more...]
If Cloud Computing Is Increasing Expenditure You Are Doing The Wrong
If Cloud Computing Is increasing your monthly expenditure, you are doing something wrong. Here is the explanation towards the right way. It is applicable to any level of user - from a website owner to an enterprise. Basically, we are cutting down the cost by opting for virtualization solution instead of using our own hardware and other resources. Complains are more common from the small website … [Read more...]
What is JSON and How it Works?
We often hear about JSON. But what is this JSON and How it works? JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation, it is a lightweight format for data exchange. JSON is a subset of the object literal notation of JavaScript that does not require the use of XML. The simplicity of JSON has led to their widespread use, especially as an alternative to XML in AJAX. One of the supposed advantages of JSON over … [Read more...]
Github is Under Pressure of Open Source and Free PaaS
Github is Under Pressure. Our analysis can show you how much Gitlab and RhodeCode bundled with OpenShift PaaS made them thoughtful. Github is a high priced closed source model for code hosting. The brilliant looking design does not worth the high value of the web interface for Git. Github is expecting a decline, an obvious decline is usage is assumed - the recent changes in Explore, attacking … [Read more...]
What is JSONP?
JSONP stands for JavaScript Object Notation with Padding. The response to a JSONP request is not parsed as JSON, but as JSON-formatted data. We Played with 'plain' JSON, right? Look here - Get your Twitter™s Tweet as RSS and JSON with New Twitter API. The JavaScript Object Notation, JSON in short, is a compact data format for man and machine easily readable text form for the purpose of data … [Read more...]
Create Aliases on OS X and Linux for Faster Work on Command Line
Create Aliases on OS X and Linux for Faster Work on Command Line - Like You Can Configure the key c for clear command on Terminal or iTerm2. This sounds nice as we no longer will need to use tar -xzvf like bigger commands. We are using iTerm2 on our MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9, well the things are same on any *nix system. But, you must must read iTerm2, Homebrew and ZSH Installation on OS X and … [Read more...]