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quick start: web project management

Thursday, November 13th, 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!So I’m trying to give a friend a few of the basics they’d need to know for managing a web project. Not a bible, just a quick read to hit the ground running. Here is what I came up […]


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

Thursday, November 13th, 2008
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 not be the best solution…. enter google, research, testing, and little sleep. Result: codeigniter was the best […]


Building Something Scalable: Security

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
This is part 2 of the Building Something Scalable series / experiment: Security. Umm why are you talking about security? Security is part of being scalable, simple. Think about it. If your security is setup decently your servers will ignore more fake / script kiddie request and can use handle more real ones. At the same […]


Building Something Scalable: Caching

Sunday, October 5th, 2008
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 experiment. This post covers caching. I’ll cover delivery in the next post. Keep in mind language wise […]


Linux: Why is my network running slow?

Saturday, September 27th, 2008
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


microsoft: our os sucks so badly we need to trick people into thinking its cool

Saturday, September 6th, 2008
I’m watching tv, only to see a commercial where windows is market testing a new os. “Holy crap” , I thought to myself, “they realized zista is shite and are already releasing a new os, thats gonna piss off some people”, but a smart move since as mentioned, vista is shite. Then again, I’d never heard […]


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. […]


how to: Fix utorrent hidden issue on ubuntu

Friday, June 20th, 2008
I have utorrent running via wine, when suddenly it stops displaying… remove the settings.dat and settings.dat.old from {wine}/c_drive/windows/profiles/{user}/Application Data/utorrent install the latest version. uncheck hide to task bar, close to taskbar cheersgreg


using wordpress from multiple locations

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Wordpress checks to make sure your running on from the proper site location. Problem is sometimes you just need it to run. ex: wordpress runs at elsid.net, admin runs at admin.iamsid.net Or you run both your development and production version of wordpress from the same db edit the get_option function in the functions.php file in the wordpress includes […]


useful windows command line utility

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Strange I’ve been wanting something like thi for years, but never looked for it go figure. Pretty much everything you wished you could do from the cmdline, and stuff you already could NirCmd is a small command-line utility that allows you to do some useful tasks withoutdisplaying any user interface. By running NirCmd with simple command-line […]