Needed a cancelable promise for my project. Also, needed to solve multiple resolve & reject problem done by original Promise because I was making a lot of asynchronous requests and gathering all data together. Here is SimplePromise which works same as normal promise and does exactly what I needed, hope it helps someone.
Category: Blog
Slow WordPress website on Docker for Mac?
Dear Diary! Docker for Mac has a know problem with mounted volumes speed. I tested that container’s root volume had almost NO speed compromise vs mounted volume. You can test speeds using dd for root volume, location can be just /tmp. I tested this on ubuntu:14.04 image. dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/output bs=8k count=300k; rm -f …
CSS: How to make DIV height same as WIDTH?
Div height can be made same as its width easily. OR (Percentage will also work) Works in all modern browsers.
How to install LAMP on Ubuntu with PHP-FPM
Tested this on a lot of servers already before writing this post. I needed to move from SquareSpace to Vultr VPS, so this post is from that. This is what I am using… Server: Ubuntu 14.04 Memory: 512MB CPU: 1 Core Disk: SSD Cost: $2.5 per month First we install Apache2 & MySql servers. …
Switched my Blog from SquareSpace.com to WordPress on Vultr.
SquareSpace.com is beautiful indeed, but misses a lot of features even today and its much costlier than a small VPS server. So, switched to WordPress and found a beautiful theme for my blog. Vultr server I bought costs just $2.5 per month and I can do a lot more with it than just SquareSpace.
Arq 5 – Best backup solution for Mac users (Encryption, Versioning, Cloud & Compression)
Dear Diary! I have 2 Apple Time Capsules of 3TB each and some external portable USB 3.0 HDD Drives from Western Digital & Seagate. My problem: Always had to find a way to backup all of my disks and Mac boot drives on those 3TB+3TB Capsules. But it was always a mess when choosing to …
Boot problem when installing Mac on portable SSD.
Recently, I thought to upgrade my iMac for better speed using a portable SSD. And, for that bought a Sandisk Extreme 500 SSD (120GB) which gave me excellent speeds of about 400MB/sec while the old internal Mac HDD gave me 80MB/sec at most. It was very easy to make a Time machine backup of my …
Switch to Apple devices if you want to save power and money.
Earlier I used to have ASUS, Intel and other motherboards with other things assembled which I used to buy from local market like SATA Hard Disks, NVIDIA video cards, Corsair Power Supply and so on. But, these assembled machines made my life hell because suddenly anything will heat up and motherboard will go into hanged …
Amazon AWS vs Vultr
This is a review for Amazon AWS after using for 3 years. Honestly, when we started with Amazon AWS, it was so cool. Everything was fast and we liked their services a lot. It was a little clumsy for a simple setup we wanted, but it was ok for me. Then recently like a year …
Apple Time Machine: The ultimate backup machine
Having regular backup of Macs is as important as working daily for a living. Because if developers like us loose our data on which we work so hard daily, then its a big mess. I can understand the feeling of loosing data because I have lost 3 X 500GB of data from Seagate hard drives. …