Sometimes I leave processes running which take up ports on my local machine (e.g., Redis server). I won’t be able to use the port until it’s freed up, but it’s sometimes a chore to figure out how to kill the process by port.
I found the following snippet super useful to kill a process by port in Mac OS:
lsof -t -i tcp:[port] | xargs kill
Just replace the [port] above with the actual numbered port (e.g., 6379).
Here’s a quick command you can use to find any folders that are over a GB in size on a Linux OS.
sudo du -h / | grep '[0-9\.]\+G'
I’ve been doing some development in jQuery Mobile, and though it’s still in Alpha, it’s a great library. That said, there are still some serious bugs in it and some other less than ideal things happening. In any case, working with jQuery Mobile has certainly helped my debugging skills along. 🙂 One of the toughest issues that almost had me pulling out my hair was figuring out how to wrap text in a jQuery Mobile list. Read on for the fix.
I recently found myself with the need to connect to a Mongo DB instance from a PHP application running on Amazon EC2. The PHP docs led me to this MongoDB extension, which seemed to be a good fit for my needs. Still, the matter of installation was a little bit less clear, considering that the EC2 instance was pretty barebones and lacked a fair number of the “standard” libraries that would enable this single line installation to work.
After a bit of finagling, I got everything to work via the steps I’ve outlined below.
Here’s a tutorial that explains how to set your Mac to use IPv4 instead of IPv6. Instructions have been tested and confirmed on macOS Sierra (10.12.3), though this should work on other OS versions too.
