NGINX with Upload Progress

Using NGINX as a load balancer can be great. Monitoring upload progress to feed back to your user doesn't come out the box.

If you need to install NGINX with upload and upload_progress modules (more than likely if you’re using an FES) you can either compile by source with the additional modules installed or instead install the extras version on Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install nginx-extras

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Casting fields in MongoDB Docs

So you have your document schema sorted but your application is throwing in mixed types on an indexed field. Not the end of the world, but your indexes are performing sub optimally.

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vSphere / ESXi Usernames

When adding users to ESXi 4.1 you can sometimes get the error "User name or password has an invalid format".

24 July 2012 2 min read