Last week I was in Rust, Germany at the WorldHostingDays conference & expo. The biggest problem we had, was that there was almost no Internet

The organizers made a very poor design of their network and so, most of the time there was no connection at all.

We were exhibitor there and as such the expo [...]

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Dated: 29th March 2011
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Today’s event was a real success. We had more then 40 people in the morning and something around 30 after the lunch break.

The talks were really interesting and inspiring. Alexey’s talk about ThinPacker was really inspiring and it captured my attention, so we will work together on that.

We made a really good discussion about the [...]

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Dated: 27th February 2011
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Next Saturday I’m organizing the annual Bulgarian Perl Workshop. One of the biggest challenges for this event is making people come and talk at the conference. And I’m not talking about international guests. I’m talking about Bulgarian speakers.

We have a lot of people working with Perl every day and it is strange to me that [...]

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Dated: 21st February 2011
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Yesterday we(Me, Vasil Kolev and Peter Pentchev) were examining the last students from the NetSec course and while we were waiting for the last student to come we started talking about the need of courses explaining software packaging in general.

We discussed that one can find really good documentation on RPM and DEB packaging systems, [...]

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Dated: 13th February 2011
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So on 26th of February the Bulgarian Perl Workshop will take place.

This year I decided that I’ll cover something I consider very nasty, Embedding Perl into C and using C from Perl. Two really annoying things with a lot of horrible solutions and half written documentation.

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Dated: 11th February 2011
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While I was reordering the code of our suexec I unintentionally optimized it by removing a pace of redundant code.
In the end the result is that on benchmarks the suexec executes phps 20% faster then FastCGI(4 childs, 1000 requests per child).

I’m still doing benchmarks but the numbers that ab is showing until now are [...]

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Dated: 10th February 2011
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Since my last post I managed to upload Hawk on GitHub and also started a new project called ‘Hosting Automations‘. I hope that the work we have done will help others.
I haven’t got the time to add the Licensing and fix the more important files for Digits. But I hope that in the next few [...]

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Dated: 1st February 2011
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Recently I started a new company called 1H. From the start of the company I talked with my partners that we should go Open Source. Maybe not with all of our products from the beginning but at least with a few of them.

So we started with 2 entirely commercial products(Hive and Guardian) and 2 Open [...]

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Dated: 14th January 2011
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This time I managed to crack the engine head on 5 from the 6 cylinders with total of 8 cracks… I’m quite good at destroying my car

Last Friday I left it with the mechanic. I hope that by tomorrow it will be fully functional again. Here are some pictures of the disassembled engine.

After that [...]

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Dated: 14th January 2011
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Next semester we will start teaching Network Security II - Secure codding.
This will be my second time helping for this course, however this will be my first time as the main lecturer for the course Since we will teach this course for a second time it will be a little bit easier as we [...]

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Dated: 14th January 2011
Filled Under: Teaching
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