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Boot on restart setup for Django and Gunicorn via Supervisor

Posted by: Mihai Oprea 5 days, 11 hours ago

One of the problems most noticeable with this setup is that you install everything, configure django, start the servers, webapp runs fine... until... random server restart. That's when you get that awkward call at 6am in the morning from one of your hosted apps asking "Why is my website down?". Fortunatelly there is an easy fix that many non-sysadmins overlook during the initial configuration. You only need to install the supervisor process control system and add in a little magic script that will automaically bring back django.

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The clutter-virus of productivity!

Posted by: Mihai Oprea 5 days, 11 hours ago

The scientific evidence is finally out! You hurt your productivity by more than 50% while trying to block all the distractions from working in open space [1].

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Self-tripping

Posted by: Mihai Oprea 5 days, 12 hours ago

The largest impediment to progress is made of self-imposed barriers. The sad thing is that people don't realize that they are their own drivers of their lives and that it's up to them to succeede or fail. They float through their daily routine complaining about everything and accomplishing nothing. They are scared to stop and think about what they do because their subconscious mind tells them they will be ashamed. Stop ignoring, analyze yourself and be better at your life!

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Getting back in touch with probabilities

Posted by: Mihai Oprea 5 days, 12 hours ago

Recently I stumbled upon a problem on stackoverflow.com which roughly translates to this:

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Hello world!

Posted by: Mihai Oprea 1 week, 4 days ago

Since Posterous is closed, this is going to be the new blog platform for mihaioprea.com. Hopefuly I will figure out an easy way to add some nice css and html and give it a better look and layout.

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