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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 […]


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. […]


ubuntu vs open suse

Thursday, July 17th, 2008
I’ve been on opensuse for about 3-4 days and all i can say is awesome. simply put its the best linux I’ve ever used desktop wise. Fyi - this is an opinion post, no stats, facts, etc. Look From jump opensuse has ubuntu beat look and feel wise, yes even mint linux. I use gnome and seriously its […]


Google Indexing getting more flash friendly

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Monday, June 30, 2008 at 9:31 PMWe’ve received numerous requests to improve our indexing of Adobe Flash files. Today, Ron Adler and Janis Stipins—software engineers on our indexing team—will provide us with more in-depth information about our recent announcement that we’ve greatly improved our ability to index Flash. Q: Which Flash files can Google better index […]


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 […]


sony ericsson xperia made by htc

Monday, February 11th, 2008
No wonder Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA X1 is so good: HTC makes it - Engadget Mobile The company that once designed the Treo for Palm (and countless other amazing white-label devices) is apparently back in the ODM game. That’s right, if you were wondering how the hell Sony Ericsson pulled the XPERIA X1 rabbit out […]


Western Digital network drives crippled — no serving any multimedia files

Monday, December 10th, 2007
wd has some limiting on sharing media with one of their models. its kinda being blown out of proportion, as it turns out this limited to this model / their software. Gary sez, “This is the most extreme example I’ve seen yet of tech companies crippling data devices in order to please Hollywood: Western Digital is […]


phpedit and waterproof software

Monday, November 19th, 2007
I’ve been a php edit fan for awhile. Took sometime to actually check out waterproof’s current offering today. Have to say they’ve come a long way and have some good projects going. Props to them for great software - check them out: http://www.waterproof.fr/


open source website copier

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
If you ever need to copy a static site heres a pretty good tool HTTrack is a free (GPL, libre/free software) and easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other […]