Installing Java jdk1.7.0 and IntelliJ on Ubuntu

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Here comes quick guide on how to install IntelliJ (JDK 1.7.0) on Ubuntu also explaining how to install Java JDK on Ubuntu. I wrote it as a quick reminder after starting up Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal guest in VMware running from Windows host.

 

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LANNN – MongoDB on AWS – mongo on single EC2 instance

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How to set up MongoDB on single EC2 instance? This article is a guide line for adding mongo to LANNN stack – explaining how to install, configure and safely run MongoDB on small production servers. Continue reading to find out about more pitfalls and important pros and cons.

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html5 – ISO Language Code Table – Language Culture Names

html5-badge-h-css3Web Development might become real challenge when it comes to creating documents in languages other your native. I can cause quite a pain to both front- and back-end developers and administrators to make sure content is being displayed correctly.

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LANNN – extra speed with using Varnish in front of Nginx and Node.js

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This post will show you how to gain extra speed with Varnish going hand in hand with NginX and Node.js on AWS EC2 instance. We will throw varnish into the game to make everything run much faster.

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LANNN – Installing Apache Benchmark on CentOS (EC2 Linux AMI) with NginX

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Benchmarking is important part for every type of web application. Benchmarking results might be critical factor for making decision about system upgrade or rebuild. Apache Benchmark (ab) is good tool that will help you test your NginX performance.

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NGINX – example nginx.conf configuration

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There are many options and directives that can be used inside nginx.conf. Below is example “starter” configuration that we are using on our newly spawn EC2 instances. We decided to share it as it seems to be working ok on quite few of our servers.

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LANNN – Setting up NginX with PHP and Node.js on AWS

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Not everyone can just dump LAMP stack and move on to LANNN leaving behind PHP and Mysql, not everyone can afford or want to afford server for new stack. Here is write-up that can help.

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LANNN – Installing Node on AWS

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This short post highlights node.js installation process on AWS EC2 instance. It is recommended to install node from latest released and stable build. Have a look how it can be done.

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NginX – Custom build and installation for AWS EC2

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This is complete tutorial showing how to install NginX on Linux AMI (CentOS) created based on information published by many developers and administrators. This article will guide you through the installation and configuration explaining in depth every step of the process.

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LANNN – Installing NginX on AWS

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NginX is an HTTP and reverse proxy and mail proxy server. It served and/or proxied 12.96% busiest sites in April 2013.  Its efficiency and reliability has been confirmed by many successfull stories.

Here is the simple guide on how to set it up on AWS (Amazon Web Services) and links to other articles that you will find very useful.

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LANNN – Launching first EC2 Instance on AWS

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Lets make first steps with LANNN or rather LA(M)NN. This write-up gets you through initial steps with AWS from registration through initiating your first instance with your favorite Linux distribution to first SSH log in your server. 

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EC2 – how to access AWS via SSH with putty

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This is article explains what is private / public key pair and shows how to generate private .ppk key for Putty in order to access AWS instance with Putty SSH client. It has been written with Windows users in mind.

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What is LANNN stack

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What does LANNN stand for?  Why LANNN?  How to get started? This article answers all those questions. Take a look and decide if it is something for you or your business.

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Useful node.js modules and resources

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JavaScript and Node.js modules and resources will vary from company to company and project to project. Here is a list of modules, frameworks and resources I found highly useful over past months.

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Game Development with Unity3d and Facebook (part 7.1): Using official Facebook PHP SDK

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This article is a walk through getting Facebook PHP SDK up and running with Unity3d game and integrating example with previous tutorial to improve your Facebook SDKs knowledge.

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Game Development with Unity3d and Facebook (part 7): Unity3d and PHP in action (server-side)

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At some point of game development it becomes important to create mechanism collecting and storing some information about the user. This is where server-side code is required.
This tutorial is an introduction to basics of using Unity3d with PHP and Facebook PHP SDK.

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Game Development with Unity3d and Facebook (part 6.3): Deployment and working with local and live environment

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Application is tested locally. It is now time to deploy it to the server. Ok then but how are we going to work with at least two environments: local and live? Lets get to it in this tutorial.

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Game Development with Unity3d and Facebook (part 6.2): Integration JavaScript and Unity3d code

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After it has been explained how to get started with Facebook JS SDK we can focus on integration JavaScript code accessing Facebook Graph with Unity3d project. This tutorial is all about putting everything together.

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Game Development with Unity3d and Facebook (part 6.1): Authorising user with Facebook JS SKD (client-side)

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Using Facebook JavaScript SDK to allow your users to log into your page is not difficult. We will have a look at how it works in this tutorial.

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Game Development with Unity3d and Facebook (part 5.3): Registration of Facebook app

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Registration of Facebook application is step necessary to enable authentication for you application. Luckily it is very simple so lets go through it quickly.

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