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Which Oar Best Rows The Boat 22 Aug 2013 | 11:20 pm
Ted Dzuiba wrote a post that boiled down to identifying his own “language bigotry” as a step along the way to software engineering “Mastery”. He’s absolutely correct about introspecting why one choos...
Ruby String.each 1 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
While I find Ruby to be a half-assed attempt at an object-oriented Perl, I have been using it quite a bit lately to stay consistent with a lot of existing intellectual property. One of the more madden...
MySQL com_select Nugget 15 Nov 2012 | 08:31 pm
Watching com_select isn’t a raw count of how many SELECT operations the server has performed, but rather the number of SELECT operations that did not get returned from the query cache. To see the real...
SPDY for Apache 24 Apr 2012 | 12:41 am
Mod_SPDY for Apache is out. If you don’t know what SPDY is, I’d recommend some light reading … or heavy reading if you’re that kind of person.
NConf 1.3.0 Pass-through HTTPD Auth 4 Apr 2012 | 07:41 am
If you’d like to use NConf, but want your HTTPD, e.g. Apache, to do the auth for it, apply the below patch to set the NConf user to the currently authenticated user.
find -delete 29 Mar 2012 | 01:26 am
If I hear one more person recommend using a pipe to xargs or -exec rm -f {} to the question “how can I make ‘find’ delete the files it finds?” I’m going to scream. It’s really simple: That’s it. Not...
Video Captcha Prior Art 6 Mar 2012 | 05:15 am
Nucaptcha claims to have invented video captchas. They didn’t. Neither did I, proabably, but I have talked about them publicly a few times, including this blog post from 2009.
Caching Functions In Perl 6 Jan 2012 | 03:20 am
Synopsis There are occasions, where you write a function that takes some parameters and outputs consistentish data. Example: If you call add(1,1) you get 2: always. Consistent input yields consisten...
Sorting Strings Ending In Numbers In Perl 5 Jan 2012 | 04:31 am
Synopsis I deal with a lot of names that look like “somedumbserver2″ and “somedumbserver15″. Using Perl’s default sort, “somedumbserver2″ comes before “somedumbserver15″ because the character “2″ is ...
Fixing Mis-cased URIs Under Apache 5 Jan 2012 | 04:18 am
Synopsis This is rather old code, but saved my bacon more than once.Runs under Apache with Mod_Perl, and corrects the URI requested when it is giving lazily. Thus a request for “/INDEX.HTML” is rewri...
