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Building Something Scalable: Caching

By admin • Oct 5th, 2008 • Category: Building Something Scalable, tech
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’ve been seriously getting my kicks with scalability fora number of months, so why not start on ongoing series where I talk about what I’ve learned / found? So welcome to to the first: Building Something Scalable - An ongoing […]


Linux: Why is my network running slow?

By admin • Sep 27th, 2008 • Category: linux, rants
Finding that your network connection / internet seems to be moving much slower than it should? First check your connection, then make sure ipv6 is not enabled. Hope this helps someone


note to self: nov todo

By admin • Sep 25th, 2008 • Category: todo
varnish setup with s3 integrationlinode cdnmedia converter installermedia converter rewritegoogle spider


burning man

By admin • Sep 25th, 2008 • Category: rants
I’m so dang burned out… Once this project is over I should have some down time, but really man this sucks


Dns: Enabling / securing Zone Transfers

By admin • Sep 23rd, 2008 • Category: linux
Open and edit : /etc/named.conf change: zone “domain.net” {    type master;    file “domain.net”;    }; zone “domain.net” {    type master;    file “domain.net”;    allow-transfer {        192.168.1.1;        common-allow-transfer;    };}; Replace 192.168.1.1 with the ip to allow transfers from


Large Hadron Rap

By admin • Sep 21st, 2008 • Category: humour, tech
Large Hadron Rap


Php: Displaying errors

By admin • Sep 21st, 2008 • Category: php, programming, rants
Today I got into a wonderful debate about php errors. I myself prefer to have the system handle the suppression of errors at system init (turn error displaying to off), and only use error suppression (@function) when needed. Why? @function is slower than function. Why add a performance decrease when its not needed? Anyways wondering what others think […]


framework: need a name

By admin • Sep 21st, 2008 • Category: Projects, rants
So all frameworks have names… I need one for mine. I’m debating on the following: bacon - yes already used once kali - after the art i study reeses - after reeses pieces / my daughters nick name So there ya have it


framework: progress - alpha 0.02

By admin • Sep 21st, 2008 • Category: Projects, news, php, programming, rants
So after years of partial frameworks, and various concepts, I’ve finally started my framework. First off there is NO windows support. I’m sure that’s not the best way to go, but I can’t think of one reason to host a php app on windows. As noted windows isn’t supported, but I’m working on a linux […]


Its offical: I’m burned out

By admin • Sep 18th, 2008 • Category: rants
I’ve reached the point where your brain feels numb. Burnout sucks