Load test your website using apache benchmark

What is load test and why is it necessary?

Load test is the process of putting load on system and testing its response, its a way to determine how your system reacts under heavy load. You need load…

Hello World JNI program in NDK using

Write your first Android JNI program using NDK in Android Studio

Update: This tutorial is for older version of Android Studio. Android Studio 2.3+ already comes with preconfigured C++ support. You may still use this tutorial to understand…

How to mount one folder in another (Giving access to external folder in jailed ftp/vsftpd)

Sometimes soft links are not enough, especially when you are setting up jailed ftp.
Suppose you have created a user who has permission to only see his home folder, still you…

Embed PHP Code in CSS files.

Have you been embedding CSS Styles into PHP files just for the sake of making the styles dynamic? Ever wished to add PHP codes in CSS files itself.

Here is a simple trick which will do the magic for Apache-PHP stack.

How to tune apache for maximum performance ?

I started with apache2 because, lets face it, it comes default with ubuntu & mac. If you are wondering “what about windows?”, then this article is not for you, xampanzee !

How to fix high page load time for single page app in google analytics ?

Google analytic only take 1% of all the page views as sample to calculate page load time.

For single page applications. First time page load is way more then successive page…

Ubuntu: get notified after a terminal based process ends

So you have given a SVN Checkout command or apt-get install command which might take unexpected time to end.

Here is a way to get notified when process ends. Just append ;notify-send “message”; to the…

Restore ubuntu after installing windows

I saw an article on recovering lost ubuntu after installing windows. I was pretty confident and installed windows 7 on my box. After that I started following the article and I was stuck with a blank grub menu during startup.