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diff --git a/source/_posts/2013-12-13-ngx-pagespeed.markdown b/source/_posts/2013-12-13-ngx-pagespeed.markdown
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+---
+layout: post
+title: "installing ngx_pagespeed"
+date: 2013-12-13 11:23
+comments: true
+categories: 
+---
+
+I recently gave the ngx_pagespeed module a whirl. Installation was on a RHEL5 server
+
+###RESOURCES
+
+- [Github](1)  
+- [Google Developers](2)  
+- [Passenger][3] (Building nginx from source with Passenger module)   
+
+**WARNING:** Instructions cite old versions of passenger/nginx. 
+
+- Latest nginx version : [here][6]
+- Latest passenger version : gem install passenger
+
+- [NGINX Docs][4] (for installing third party modules)
+
+###Instructions (paraphrasing from above sources)
+
+1. Download ngx_pagespeed:  
+
+		$ cd ~
+		$ wget https://github.com/pagespeed/ngx_pagespeed/archive/v1.7.30.1-beta.zip
+		$ unzip v1.7.30.1-beta.zip # or unzip v1.7.30.1-beta$ cd ngx_pagespeed-1.7.30.1-beta/
+		$ wget https://dl.google.com/dl/page-speed/psol/1.7.30.1.tar.gz
+		$ tar -xzvf 1.7.30.1.tar.gz # expands to psol/
+
+2. Download and build nginx:
+
+		$ # check http://nginx.org/en/download.html for the latest version
+		$ wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.4.3.tar.gz
+		$ tar -xvzf nginx-1.4.3.tar.gz3) 
+
+3. Set PASSENGER_NGINX_DIR env variable 
+
+		export PASSENGER_NGINX_DIR=\`passenger-config --root\`/ext/nginx
+		
+4. Install Passenger gem (compiler uses this to build nginx with the passenger module)  
+
+		$ gem install passenger && gem clean # gem clean to remove older versions of passenger.
+
+5. Set build flags
+
+		$ cd nginx-1.4.3/
+		$ ./configure --add-module=$HOME/ngx_pagespeed-1.7.30.1-beta —add-module=$PASSENGER_NGINX_DIR5. 
+		
+explore more potential modules [here][4]. 
+
+If you add more modules you’ll have to include them with —add-module=XXXX in your ./configure command.
+There are more options for ./configure which you’ll have to figure out for your specific build  
+
+#####Example: 
+__WARNING: Don’t just copy/paste this block!__
+
+		$ ./configure \  
+			--prefix=/usr/local \  
+			--sbin-path=/usr/local/sbin \  
+			--conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf \  
+			--error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log \  
+			--http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log \  
+			--with-http_ssl_module \  --with-http_gzip_static_module \  
+			--add-module=$PASSENGER_NGINX_DIR \  --with-pcre=$PCRE_DIR \  
+			--with-http_sub_module
+
+
+After you get all your modules figured out,
+
+		$ make && make install
+
+Since I already had a version of passenger installed (from source) at /opt/nginx, I shutdown the current nginx `sudo /etc/init.d/nginx stop` moved the entire directory `mv nginx nginx_old` and set the `--prefix=/opt/nginx` build flag. 
+
+After compilation
+
+		mv /opt/nginx/conf /opt/nginx/clean_conf # (our newly built nginx)
+		cp -r /opt/nginx_old/conf /opt/nginx
+
+Since we're using the same location, our `/etc/init.d/nginx` script doesn't need to be updated.
+
+### Post-Installation
+
+1. Add [ngx_pagespeed options][5] to your nginx.conf
+
+		pagespeed on;
+		pagespeed FileCachePath /var/ngx_pagespeed_cache;  # Use tmpfs for best results.
+		
+2. In every server block where pagespeed is enabled add:
+
+		# Ensure requests for pagespeed optimized resources go to the pagespeed
+		# handler and no extraneous headers get set.
+
+		location ~ "\.pagespeed\.([a-z]\.)?[a-z]{2}\.[^.]{10}\.[^.]+" { add_header "" ""; }
+		location ~ "^/ngx_pagespeed_static/" { }
+		location ~ "^/ngx_pagespeed_beacon$" { }
+		location /ngx_pagespeed_statistics { allow 127.0.0.1; deny all; }
+		location /ngx_pagespeed_global_statistics { allow 127.0.0.1; deny all; }
+		location /ngx_pagespeed_message { allow 127.0.0.1; deny all; }
+		location /pagespeed_console { allow 127.0.0.1; deny all; }
+		
+
+To confirm that the module is loaded, fetch a page and check that you see the X-Page-Speed header:
+
+		$ curl -I 'http://localhost:8050/some_page/' | grep X-Page-Speed # => X-Page-Speed: 1.7.30.1-...
+
+[1]: https://github.com/pagespeed/ngx_pagespeed
+[2]: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module/build_ngx_pagespeed_from_source
+[3]: http://extralogical.net/articles/howto-compile-nginx-passenger.html
+[4]: http://wiki.nginx.org/3rdPartyModules
+[5]: https://github.com/pagespeed/ngx_pagespeed#how-to-use
+[6]: http://nginx.org/en/download.html
diff --git a/source/_posts/2013-12-14-installing-oracle-instantclient-on-osx.markdown b/source/_posts/2013-12-14-installing-oracle-instantclient-on-osx.markdown
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+---
+layout: post
+title: "Installing Oracle InstantClient on OSX"
+date: 2013-12-14 01:09
+comments: true
+categories: 
+---
+
+This was done on Mac OSX 10.9 Mavericks using XCode 5.0.2. Some parts paraphrased from [here](http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~mitra/csSpring2012/cs327/cx_mac.html)
+
+###Download and prepare Oracle Instant Client
+
+[Download](http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/intel-macsoft-096467.html) Instant client and SDK
+
+- instantclient-basiclite-macos.x64-11.2.0.3.0.zip (25,674,645 bytes)
+- instantclient-sdk-macos.x64-11.2.0.3.0.zip (460,550 bytes)
+
+**NOTE :**  They both unzip to the same file name. Depending on which order you unzip in you'll get two directories called 
+`instantclient_11_2` and `instantclient_11_2 2`. Rename them to something less confusing. I renamed to `instantclient` and `instantclient_sdk` respectively.
+
+Create environment variables in .bashrc || .zshrc || .profile || .wherever
+
+		export ORACLE_HOME=/Users/[your-username]/oracle/instantclient_11_2
+		export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME
+		export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME
+		$ source ~/.bashrc
+		$ echo $ORACLE_HOME # => /Users/[your-username]/oracle/instantclient_11_2
+
+###Download and prepare cx_Oracle
+
+Download cx_Oracle [Source Code only](http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cx-oracle/cx_Oracle-5.1.2.tar.gz?download) package. (version 5.1.2 as of this writing)
+
+Other versions can be found [here](http://cx-oracle.sourceforge.net/)
+
+		$ tar xf cx_Oracle-5.1.2.tar.gz # => yields cx_Oracle-5.1.2/
+		$ cp -r instantclient_sdk/sdk/include cx_Oracle-5.1.2
+		$ cd cx_Oracle-5.1.2 # should have all the *.c files from sdk in here
+
+If you open any of these files you'll notice that headers follow the <angles> format for includes (`#include <whatever.c>`). Mavericks/XCode uses the clang compiler, which requires double-quoted includes (`#include "whatever.c"`), so we need to do a global find/replace on all the required C files, changing include lines to this format. I used TextMates search/replace feature.
+
+**FIND :** include <(.*)>  
+**REPLACE :** include "$1"
+
+		$ python setup.py build install
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+		
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diff --git a/source/_posts/2013-12-18-shell-plus-primer.markdown b/source/_posts/2013-12-18-shell-plus-primer.markdown
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+---
+layout: post
+title: "shell_plus primer"
+date: 2013-12-18 02:33
+comments: true
+categories: 
+---
+
+* Import a model and give it an alias
+
+		from apps.news.models import Article as NewsArticle
+
+* Print all attributes of an object
+
+		authors = article.authors_set.values_list('name', flat=True)
+
+* Get object with all relations
+
+		props = Property.objects.select_related().all()
+
+
+	_this will get all properties and join all foreign keys to them so you don't have to hit the database again for a nested relation_   
+	[There are Caveats](http://timmyomahony.com/blog/misconceptions-select_related-in-django/)  
+
+* Inspect anything
+
+		help(object)
+	_pretty prints all stuff about an object_
+
+* Returning collections (as opposed to single records)
+
+		Property.objects.filter(p_type="O")
+
+* Inspect the SQL that fetched the queryset  
+	[more info](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4720079/django-query-filter-with-variable-column)
+
+		units = Unit.objects.filter(is_available=True, **{'u_property__p_type':'p_type_abbr'})
+		print units.query
+		
+* The double __ syntax
+
+		u_property__p_type == u_property.p_type
+		
+	_this is equivalent to the '.' in ActiveRecord, which is great for filtering based on assications_
+	_NOTE: Make sure to load the associations so you don't trigger an N+1 query_
+
+* Pretty Printing in Shell
+
+		>>> import pprint
+		>>> pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter(indent=4)
+		>>> pp.pprint(stuff)
+		
+* Migrations [docs](http://south.readthedocs.org/en/latest/commands.html)
+
+		python manage.py schemamigration <app_name> --auto
+