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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 […]


basecamp + agile - client friendly + effective = pivotal tracker

Thursday, November 13th, 2008
I’m a BC fan, but have to admit there are more than enough times that it feels lacking. I recently started playing around with pivotal tracker which is follows the agile method. It took me about 10 minutes to go holy crap this rocks… I don’t think it’d be to client friendly, but it definitely works […]


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 […]


how to: Delaying audio with sox

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
I recently ran into a feature / bug / something while delaying audio for an application with sox. The delay effect appears to only delay a maximum of 3 seconds. Hopefully this will save someone else from scratching their head. To delay audio use the pad effect: sox file_in file_out pad begin_offset end_offset begin_offset = seconds of silence […]


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 […]


And back to centos

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Well once again ubuntu has turned into a much larger headache than needed, so now its back to centos


Time to bite the bullet

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
I currently have 3 vpses. One on Mediatemple and two at linode. Thing is I need at least 3 servers at linode to properly setup the environment for my scaling experiment / future gs setup…. So as of tonight I’m biting the bullet and now own 4 linodes. If all goes well I’ll toss 2-3 more […]


BaseKit Looks Wicked

Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Came acroos this from a friend in Romania. From what I can tell basekit is a web based development envirnoment, that lets you dev on the fly… lets hope I get to beta BaseKit Preview Site


Linode Rocks!

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
I haven’t had much time to post, or do anything fun in the past few months, but I’m currently working on a nginx, php, apache, varnish, memcachedb, mysql setup distributed between two servers. Why does this matter? Because I decided to upgrade my linode so I could slice up my resources into a nice little […]


Yet another quote

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. — seen on the net