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Building somethng scalable: language / frameworks aka use ror or php

Thursday, November 13th, 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!When I first started this experiment I planned on using a custom php framework. Recently I realized that its kinda pointless to attempt to do something like this and at the same time lock myself into something that may […]


Hosting: where to go, where to go

Monday, August 18th, 2008
So after about 2 months on slicehost, I have yet to finish setting up my server. It seems to be the busy season and I’ve only been able to finish my local servers. So to recap I know have a media temple box and a slicehost box. Now to further complicate the situation after much debate […]


linux: openSuse compared after some time

Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Its been over a month, so i figured its time to do an after action report. Simply put I still LOVE openSuse. Of course theres a few things that need work, but overall its a wonderful distro that I strongly recommend. Ok so for a bit of back story I’ve been using windows since i think 3.1. […]


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 […]


unfuddle : basecamp with svn

Monday, March 10th, 2008
checking out unfuddle today, cheaper plans with svn integration / hosting. I’ll test drive it after i get some time Unfuddle is a secure, hosted project management solution for software development teams. We know that you don’t have time to get a server up and running and then configure and secure Subversion repositories, ticketing systems and valuable […]


MythTV DVB Setup Guide and Notes on Building a Linux Storage Server

Monday, December 10th, 2007
found the following series of tutorials via the myth tv site. there a few years old, but still have valuable information. MythTV DVB Setup Guide DVB is Digital Video Broadcasting, a set of digital television standards with a large amount of industry support. There are several advantages to digital TV. Programme guides and flexible digital services are much […]


where do they run when the media temples gone

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
Apparently more than a few people are running to a small orange from media temples grid hosting. I’m checking them out now, might get a server to play with. will post if i do.A Small Orange - Virtual Private Servers - Plans Powered by ScribeFire.


props : good asp / .net programmer

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
if you ever need a good asp / .net programmer hit up : north star hosting and tell them you want James. He’s also good with Unix. He’s not a friend of mine, but I’m dealing with him on a project and he’s really good at what he does.


how to: optimize media temple (dv) for wordpress

Monday, September 3rd, 2007
David Seah has a good walk through for optimizing your dv server for wordpress I’m running a (dv) Base system from Media Temple, which is their 256MB version. This is their lowest-end server configuration, which is actually a virtual server sharing the same hardware. As my blog has grown in popularity, when I switched over I got […]