Author: Jim Isaacs

  • Nginx + Jenkins Configuration

    This is just a simple post about configuring Nginx to proxy Jenkins, with HTTPS. This example assumes Jenkins is hosted on the same machine as Nginx, and at the default port (e.g. 8080). It does not include how to obtain an SSL server certificate. my.domain.com.conf: References:

  • Ride the Unicorn

    I was researching SmartOS and realized something. I have Mac OSX, which is already a pretty “smart” os. One thing I never realized was that DTrace is pre-installed on OSX. So with that I looked around, and  found this little helping article. Abracadabra, now I can see all activity on all the files on my computer being…

  • Plugin Concern

    There is a concern about the functionality of the WordPress plugin I use for managing downloads. I am in the process of finding a solution, but in the mean time It has been temporarily disabled. Thank you for your patience, and I apologize for any inconvenience.

  • CSS3 Border Image Experiment

    So, I was responsible for explaining the CSS style border-image during a presentation to coworkers. During research I came across this post. The article was informative but I needed a demo, and a nice one was linked to in that same article. Though I needed it to be a bit more extensive, so I revamped…

  • WebP – Google’s Image Format

    Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. Google has created their own image format, which is dubbed WebP. I won’t go into too much detail since that link explains as much as necessary, FAQs and all. In summary, it uses the VP8 Codec, and the goal is to compress images further and more…

  • TextMate Dreamweaver Theme 2.0

    A while back I posted a TextMate theme. Since then TextMate has undergone many updates, along with Mac OS. By the feedback on the last post I found that something has been going wrong with the required HTML bundle that I packaged with the theme. I tested, and fixed some regex matching in the bundle…