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Building Something Scalable: Caching

Sunday, October 5th, 2008
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 […]


php tip: securing .inc include files

Sunday, August 17th, 2008
just a quick tip for anyone using .inc files via apache. add the following to your apache configuration to prevent viewing of .inc files via the web. This will not prevent php from including the files locally <FilesMatch “\.inc$”> Deny From All </FilesMatch> There ya go, now feel free to use .inc files as much as you’d like. Also an […]


Bye, Bye ubuntu

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
So I’m now pretty much fed up with Ubuntu. It’s a great os, but I’m having nothing but issues with it. First were the wireless issues. For some reason ubuntu dropped the connection every 20min-2hours. I eventually got that fixed. Next we’re the repo issues. If you pull a file from the main repo it should work, […]


php security in a nutshell

Friday, May 9th, 2008
I have a friend I’m teaching foundation security to. This post is for him, but also as a protest to some of the materials I’ve found when looking for reference material for him. Security at it’s simplest form is common sense. ask yourself, how can I make sure I get exactly what I want? How do […]


deploying rails made simple : Deploying Rails From Scratch

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
I spent a good bit of this summer working on websites for ApacheCon US 2007 and OS Summit Asia 2007 which will be in Atlanta and Hong Kong this fall. (You should attend!) There’s a whole long sad story behind the Apache conference websites, but I’ll spare you that (for now). Instead, I wanted to […]


what do you use to develop?

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
I’m sure this is a post that would fit better in a forum, but anyways. So I’m working what do you use to develop? at the bare min I need: e and firefox with fireFtp. Of course this scenario sucks and I can’t do flash unless its external dependent. Since this isn’t a mission impossible heres my […]


the new network: what’s it about

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
I’ve been posting alot on linux htpc, mythtv, and netowrking here and there, thought i should prob explain what i’m looking to do.also i need to start documenting stuff for myself. current systems right now i have 4 boxes. p4 2.4 laptop p4 2.8 laptop pentium m 1.8 laptop amd x2 4600 desktop at the current moment there all being used as […]


how to: setup xcache - quick version

Thursday, September 27th, 2007
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 […]


Flex Module for Apache and IIS

Sunday, September 9th, 2007
The Flex module for Apache and Microsoft IIS provides web-tier compilation of MXML and ActionScript files on Apache and IIS web servers. This module lets you rapidly compile, test and deploy an application by simply requesting the main application file from a web browser, similar to working with server-side scripting languages such as PHP, ColdFusion […]


how to: configuring a plesk catch all domain

Monday, September 3rd, 2007
setting up a catch domain in plesk takes a little bit more than just wild card dns. enarion.net has a how to covering the final steps In this article you’ll learn to configure Plesk that it uses one subdomain as catch-all for all non-existing subdomains. Why would you need catch all subdomains Maybe you have a few subdomains. But […]