Posted 19 hours ago

This social security office is full of smiling faces and zippy efficiency #oppositeday

Posted 1 day ago

Got the home openvpn up (Tomato routing ftw!) — bring hither your unwashed public networks that I may bore through them.

If you’re looking for a quick ‘n easy openvpn implementation, this one runs straight from your router: http://blog.johnso.org/2009/08/how-to-setup-openvpn-in-tomato.html

Posted 3 days ago

The week thus far taken into consideration, tequila in the coffee may well be the only option.

Posted 3 days ago

Entering The Wonderful World of Geo Location - Smashing Magazine

With Twitter having just added this to their site, Facebook swiftly following suit, and localized content proliferating on mobile devices, this is something that will soon be hard to avoid if you’re doing anything on the web.

Posted 4 days ago

Julia graduates into the triple digits of days old today. She celebrated by gaining the ability to reorient herself 90 degrees in her crib.

Posted 5 days ago

Avoiding Database Overload with Memcached

The larger and busier your site and related database, the more shared memory caching such as Memcached makes sense.  Given that it can easily run on separate servers, it’s also quite easy to scale.

Posted 5 days ago

Morphed into everyman Phil the Plumber this evening, except I merely replaced a faucet and then stayed out of politics.

Posted 5 days ago

Why You Should Always Use Active Record | CodeSanity

Read: security and maintainability.  Let the framework do the talking to the database instead of reinventing the wheel every time.

Posted 5 days ago

Every Academy Award-Winning Movie Ever Made

Posted 6 days ago

Mate: Event driven framework for Flex > Reviews > Flash Magazine

Been using this on a project at work.  A little difficult to wrap the brain around, but it results in some simple-looking code.

Posted 6 days ago
Fa la la la

Fa la la la

Posted 6 days ago

Free CakePHP E-Book - Advanced CakePHP Tips | PseudoCoder.com

This is truly the book for CakePHP that needed to be written for a long time, written by a real programmer for real-world situations.  It’s nice seeing his approach for getting around some of the common CakePHP programming pitfalls, and this document does a great job of filling in the gaps in the official documentation and the couple of published books already out there.

Posted 6 days ago
Git Off My Lawn!

Git Off My Lawn!

Posted 6 days ago
Repose with Bob and Duck

Repose with Bob and Duck