This is a collection of resources and guides for playing everyone’s favorite post-apocalyptic RPG, Fallout. The sheer amount of these resources can get confusing so I’ve collected the essential and my favorite ones here.

Apple’s Airport Extreme router doesn’t have a built-in dynamic DNS client so you have to use a different server to update your IP address with a dynamic DNS provider using dd-client.

Amazon provides free CloudWatch monitoring for EC2 instances, but they do not include metrics which would require peeking inside the OS, most noticeably memory and open connections.

Drawing a path with a large amount of points a map can be rather CPU intensive, especially on mobile devices. This can be reduced by discarding points in the path so the path can be displayed with a minimal loss of quality.

Laziness is the mark of a true developer, and Capistrano is one of the tools that allows you to automate boring and repetitive tasks. Mostly known for its use in deploying Ruby on Rails applications it can also be using to deploy Wordpress websites.

I needed to cache weather API requests that I was making to yr.no with memcached. Since every request was for a specific latitude/longitude coordinate there was no unique key I could use. This can be solved by using C-squares.

Recently I had a need for event scheduler that was timezone-aware. All that I could find were Java based systems that were a total overkill for my needs, so I decided to build my own with MySQL events and Q4M.

Once more into the breach, my friend.