Category: Random thoughts

I wanted to read the timeline of the Amazon “Networking Event”.  So I’ve taken the logs of the EC2 and RDS status updates and put them together for a post. […]...

There are LOTS of ways to do this.   This is what I do so that I can use the same code in any site’s .htaccess RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / […]...

This summer I took the opportunity to write my first BackPress application.  It was an educational experience that came with a number of surprises. I thought I would share my […]...

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Having appended a line to /etc/hosts through BASH, what I really wanted to do, was add it via PERL. The basic operation would be the same: load a text file […]...

The process is EXTREMELY simple. One line to install SVN, two to create the repository, and one to run the daemon: yum install subversion.i386 mkdir /svn svnadmin create /svn/my-repo/ svnserve […]...

While working with Lee Newton over at b5media I was able to watch him build up some server tools over time that were invaluable to diagnosing exactly what was going […]...

I’m just jotting down some notes about using the Google Safe Browsing API to prevent a site from serving malicious/bad ads. Problem Defined Ads are put on a site via […]...

You might find this little command useful, it allows you to create thumbnails for all the files in a particular directory: find . -maxdepth 1 -name *.jpg -print -exec convert […]...

There’s been rumor and confusion over the last week about whether WordPress and WordPress mu were merging as Matt seemed to imply at WordCamp SF. The announcement was so shocking […]...