Dao Hoang Son

So I was trying HHVM on a VPS when I encountered the error "list sub-command REMOVE_AT requires list to be present". Having no idea of what it is, I tried a Google search and ended up with a page of results (5 or something with half of them in Chinese) and no pointer at all... The full stack is like this CMake Error at CMake/EXTFunctions.cmake:8 (list):   list sub-command REMOVE_AT requires list to be present. Call Stack (most recent call first):   hphp/runtime/ext/imagick/config.cmake:12 (HHVM_LINK_LIBRARIES)   hphp/runtime/ext/CMakeLists.txt:24 (include) So I went in... vi CMake/EXTFunctions.cmake Found some macro definitions and some function declarations. The two things that caused error are both macro so I change them to function and it works! See the edited file here . At least CMAKE worked and now I'm running MAKE. I will update this post when I got HHVM running. So HHVM has been compiled and ran smoothly on my box. I submitted a pull req...

I read two articles today: One:  We’re F****D, It’s Over: Coming Back from the Brink Two:  How I Fired Myself. These paragraphs stood out: One I remember Hotmail’s CEO Sabeer calling us all in a room. “Hey, Rex (the COO), how long will it take to restore the email from the tape backups?” And I’ll never forget his answer: “Um, those got really expensive, so we stopped doing them about a month ago.” Gulp. Long … painful … silence. Two I found myself on the phone to Rackspace, leaning on a desk for support, listening to their engineer patiently explain that backups for this MySQL instance had been cancelled over 2 months ago. Ah. God, that's painful to read. It gave me chills... Note to self: Backup all the thing. Never cancel backup services. And test backups to make sure they work!

A long long time ago, I started working on WordPress 3 Bridge for XenForo . I think it was one of the first work that I have done, the idea back then was pretty simple: find XenForo directory, load the session then find the connected WordPress user... It worked for awhile but because loading XenForo bootstrap code is slow and the two system architectures are different from each other (XenForo is MVC while WordPress is still procedure), there was a lot of bugs. It took hours to make it work nicely with other WordPress plugins. When XenForo moved to Resource Manager for add-ons, the plugin thread is locked at 37 pages. I haven't work on it since then. In the meantime, a few other solutions popped up but for some reason they died relatively quick... Enter [bd] API , it exposes XenForo data in a systematic way and uses OAuth 2 to authenticate users. Quite powerful. I have developed a bridge solution to connect two XenForo installation and it worked well so this time I went to develop...