When installing Ubuntu Server 14.04, you have the ability to automatically install and configure a LAMP stack. However, doing so in the latest build (as of 08/01/2015), seems to cause an ownership issue on a few directories that will prevent you from being able to actually start the service.

ZeroMQ (sometimes referred to as ØMQ) is an asynchronous messaging library which allows you to utilise a number of different patterns to fit the needs of a variety of scenarios and is capable of handling load balancing by itself, as can be seen in the demonstration video below.

Despite a lot of people claiming that mining cryptocurrency is dead and no longer profitable, it is still a fun thing to participate with and so I picked up a Zeusminer Blizzard (pictured below) on eBay to use with my Raspberry Pi to mine some Dogecoin.

A new Android app I have recently been working on needed sprucing up a little bit yesterday and I’ve always found cross-fading between loading screens to be a nice, yet subtle, transitioning effect, so I put together a reusable class for it.

Earlier today, I purchased Dialogue System for Unity for a project I am working on that will require interactive dialogues as well as bark dialogues (dialogues that are not interactive, but occur on a trigger; such as you walking by someone).