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Tackling the "to-do" list problem 8 Aug 2013 | 12:57 pm
I have a to-do list (surprise!) - actually I have a couple. Possibly even a few... I've even got an item on one of them to consolidate the lists together. It is so easy to keep adding new items, and ...
Upstart script for Apache Solr 12 Jul 2013 | 10:20 am
(Apologies for not sharing my technical thoughts for six months now!) I was trying to figure out the best way to launch Apache Solr on Ubuntu - and was having issues finding a nice clean way to do it...
Remapping remote keys for OpenELEC/XBMC 11 Jan 2013 | 07:55 am
This past week, I set my Parents up with a Raspberry Pi-based OpenELEC unit, which I built for them to replace an extremely dated Buffalo product. (So far I have been pretty surprised as to what this ...
Shout out to CrashPlan! 24 Aug 2012 | 02:40 pm
While I am typically a BackBlaze fan boy ("we'll always be unlimited" and so cost-effective) I somehow stumbled upon CrashPlan. Which when looking at it and seeing it's a Java-based client initially s...
One of my favorite parts about conferences is the schwag. 20 Aug 2012 | 04:10 pm
I'm a sucker for a free t-shirt. This year was a record - 11 shirts from OSCON 2012, and I missed going to the OpenStack anniversary event where I could have picked up another one. The one disappointm...
PHP 5.4 stuff I'm jazzed about... 28 Jan 2012 | 11:10 pm
I'm always excited to read updates to the NEWS file for each PHP version (yes, I am that big of a PHP fan boy) - and PHP 5.4 has quite a handful of noteworthy changes. I started cutting them out and d...
PHP.reboot - are you kidding me? 10 Oct 2011 | 09:22 am
Something just cropped up today on HN about a "reboot of PHP" - being a PHP fanboy, I decided to go look. I've had my own ideas on what I'd change (or rather, just clean up, optimize, and purge) from ...
nginx goes "Prime time" 19 Jul 2011 | 05:05 am
Today, Igor announced that he is establishing a company behind nginx, citing that he and some others are going to be focusing more seriously on development, support, etc. This is exciting, as it prove...
nginx hits 1.0(.0) 12 Apr 2011 | 10:16 pm
nginx, my webserver du joir, announced its 1.0.0 launch today. Along with the announcement, Igor has also posted a public SVN repository to grab the code from (which seems to include a lot of historic...
Poor man's Global Redirect for Drupal 6.x 23 Mar 2011 | 04:31 pm
I was moving a customer's site from an old HTML and individual PHP page site to a friendly URL site managed by Drupal, and I only cared about intercepting URLs with those file extensions. I installed ...
