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Monthly Archives for September 2007

It was a very good month. Dig in. Every entry is a classic.

off topic: cheap tickets to canada

off topic, but worth mentioning:
if you travel to canada often, or whenever you should check out westjet. they also have a cool business model: all employees are shareholders. it may be some tiny amount, but still it seems to have a really good effect. westjet’s staff are about the nicest and most helpful I’ve ever [...]

the best way to handle web service responses

I’m just wondering how other people like to handle responses from xml / web services.
I personally like to parse the response into and array, normally in the class containing the method calls. your two cents welcome.
Sid

dhtml popup calender

did a good popup calender? check out matt kruse’s old version. it still works, and he has a new version in the works.
This script uses DHTML or Popup windows to display a calendar for the user to select a date. It was designed to look and behave like Microsoft Outlook.
It can be implemented in only [...]

TUFTE—A STYLE FOR MINT

In case you ever wonder what theme i’m using for mint.
check it out:
http://www.robgoodlatte.com/2007/05/21/tufte-a-new-style-for-mint/

Openads 2.4 is out

Openads 2.4 is the new stable version of the hugely popular Openads adserver. This new version gives you more control over your adspace, has a simple upgrade process and can serve billions of ads each month.
check it out:
www.openads.org/products/openads-2.4.html

how to: find amount of installed memory - linux

if you ever need to check the amount of ram installed on a machine run:
free

how to: find number of cpus - linux

run the following commands to display cpu’s on a system
grep processor /proc/cpuinfo

how to: setup xcache - quick version

heres a quick guide to installing xcache
cd into the xcache source directory
first run phpize
next run
./configure –enable-xcache –enable-xcache-optimizer

this will configure xcache to install with the optimizer, and xcache. you want to use the optimizer
make
make install
next we’ll edit your php.ini file. if you don’t know where to find it run : find / name=php.ini|grep php.ini
copy the [...]

site offline tonight

the site will be going down tonight, it’s time for me to finally fix some of this crap

feedwordpress update: weird issue

I was hoping to get some information for the creator, but found a new issue instead.
first off let me say I’m sure this isn’t an issue most users will probably get.
I have feedwordpress running on wordpress 2.2.1 and pulling from 14 different feeds. again as i said this is probably an issue most users will [...]