Quick tip: Create MySQL database, add user and access rights

Quick tip: Create MySQL database, add user and access rights

 
  CREATE DATABASE `mydb` CHARSET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
  GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'webapp'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'SecretP@ssw0rd';
  GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `mydb`.* TO 'webapp'@'localhost';
  flush privileges;
  SHOW GRANTS FOR webapp@localhost;

Install Java7 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Install Java7 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

Just console commands:

  sudo aptitude install python-software-properties

  sudo apt-add-repository ppa:webupd8team/java

  sudo apt-get update

  sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer

See more: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/install-oracle-java-jdk-7-in-ubuntu-via.html

Online courses for financial math

If you are interested in financial math and in investing then consider following free learning opportunities:

• Coursera - Mathematical Methods for Quantitative Finance
• Coursera - Computational Investing, Part I
• CQI Global - Introduction to Quantitative Investment
• Coursera - Financial Engineering and Risk Management Part I
• Coursera - Financial Engineering and Risk Management Part II
• University of Toronto- Stochastic Methods for Actuarial Science
• University of Toronto- Pricing Theory I / Applied Probability for Mathematical Finance
• University of Toronto- High Frequency & Algorithmic trading
• MIT Open Courseware- Analytics of Finance

Crispy quote

  Any fool can know... the point is to understand
  Albert Einstein

  And the goal of understanding is to predict...

nginx files

Nginx files are as following:

• /etc/nginx/nginx.conf - main config file for nginx
• /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf - additional config files for nginx
• /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/* - additional config files for virtual hosts, one file per virtual host

More info see at StackOverflow - Configure /etc/nginx/nginx.conf to redirect to separate host