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 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
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.
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