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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 […]


Google likes family guy, or at least Seth MacFarlane

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
LOS ANGELES — Google is experimenting with a new method of distributing original material on the Web, and some Hollywood film financiers are betting millions that the company will succeed. Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image Seth MacFarlane, the 34-year-old creator of “Family Guy.” In September, Seth MacFarlane, creator of “Family Guy” on television, will unveil a carefully […]


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 […]


configuring wp-cache to work with apc

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Having issues getting wp-cache and apc to play nice? So was mark, luckily he found the answer so I can link to him APC (Alternative PHP Cache) is great for WordPress. It caches the compiled WordPress PHP files and greatly speeds up subsequent loads. I even wrote a WordPress plugin to make WordPress store its objects in APC instead […]


Need coppa / kid safe ads? Go Fish

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Go Fish is a new ad network that focuses on delivering ad content targeting the younger market. Better yet they promise better returns than google adsense and tribal fusion. So far they’re telling the truth. In addition to serving good ads, their team works with your team to further optimize your site and ad revenue. They […]


Joyent: free accelerators for facebook apps

Monday, March 31st, 2008
Facebook, Joyent and Dell have partnered to provide free scalable, on-demand infrastructure from Joyent to Facebook developers. Joyent’s Accelerator on-demand infrastructure (peered with Facebook’s datacenter!) provides the very best load balancers, routing and switching fabric, x86 servers and storage from Dell. Facebook developers can take advantage of Joyent Accelerators to quickly launch Facebook applications capable […]


Install yum and subversion on media temple dv 3.5

Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Just upgraded one of my clients servers to dv 3.5. dv 3.5 uses centos 5 so when you install yum you’ll need to use that version  rpm -Uvh mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/yum-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.5.noarch.rpm Subversion is now included in the developer tools package. Login to your account center and install developer tools from there. via hello, hellm 


How to: Install electroserver on media-temple dv and similar centos setups

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Before you start Before starting anything you should be sure that you have the developer tools package installed. If your not sure, then you don’t. No worries: submit a request to install the developer tools package and you’ll be ready in about 45min to a hour. Get started first login as root next download electroserver: wget www.electro-server.com/downloads/builds/ElectroServer_4_0_4_linux.rpm next install the rpm: […]


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 […]


finally a computer that might get you girls

Monday, December 10th, 2007
the s21t by origen is sweet, sick, awesome, and many other words i’ll refrain from saying. it’s a 12in tft screen, that’s motorized to slide down and reveal the dvd rom and card reader. Oh yeah and its an htpc case Origen AE Technology - S21T HTPC Enclosure oh yeah and it’s over a grand, just […]