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I wanted to use wkhtmltopdf on an Ubuntu 14.04 webserver. After downloading the binaries they came up with errors. Here is how to install it properly using xvfb.
Newrelic is a monitoring service (website: newrelic.com), which is supposed to watch after the health of your server/website. Newrelic Installation, first impressions, deinstallation and issues encountered.
Transactions are vital part of modern databases. A transaction is a sequence of database operations on one or many tables, which are considered as a single (atomic) operation. If any of the operations in a transaction fails, the transaction is considered to have failed to be committed.
Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs) are a great way to uniquely identify something. This article introduces a human friendly UUID version that incorporates time elements for added context and meaning.
