I live, work and play in the verdant and tsunami-proof town of Blacksburg, VA. [More]Tumblr (3.0; @pelanne)http://pelanne.com/<p>This social security office is full of smiling faces and zippy efficiency #oppositeday</p>http://pelanne.com/post/443925719http://pelanne.com/post/443925719Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:23:44 -0500<p>Got the home openvpn up (Tomato routing ftw!) — bring hither your unwashed public networks that I may bore through them.</p> <p>If you’re looking for a quick ‘n easy openvpn implementation, this one runs straight from your router: <a href="http://blog.johnso.org/2009/08/how-to-setup-openvpn-in-tomato.html"><a href="http://blog.johnso.org/2009/08/how-to-setup-openvpn-in-tomato.html">http://blog.johnso.org/2009/08/how-to-setup-openvpn-in-tomato.html</a></a></p>http://pelanne.com/post/442764144http://pelanne.com/post/442764144Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:39:00 -0500<p>The week thus far taken into consideration, tequila in the coffee may well be the only option.</p>http://pelanne.com/post/438994624http://pelanne.com/post/438994624Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:46:42 -0500<a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/03/08/entering-the-wonderful-world-of-geo-location/">Entering The Wonderful World of Geo Location - Smashing Magazine</a>: <p>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.</p>http://pelanne.com/post/438649366http://pelanne.com/post/438649366Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:32:00 -0500<p>Julia graduates into the triple digits of days old today. She celebrated by gaining the ability to reorient herself 90 degrees in her crib.</p>http://pelanne.com/post/434931079http://pelanne.com/post/434931079Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:20:29 -0500<a href="http://codesanity.net/2010/03/avoiding-database-overload-with-memcached/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+codesanity+%28CodeSanity.net+-+PHP%2C+JavaScript%2C+%26+Technology+Ramblings%29&utm_content=Google+Reader">Avoiding Database Overload with Memcached</a>: <p>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.</p>http://pelanne.com/post/434921827http://pelanne.com/post/434921827Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:13:00 -0500<p>Morphed into everyman Phil the Plumber this evening, except I merely replaced a faucet and then stayed out of politics.</p>http://pelanne.com/post/433907242http://pelanne.com/post/433907242Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:14:07 -0500<a href="http://codesanity.net/2010/03/active-record/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+codesanity+%28CodeSanity.net+-+PHP%2C+JavaScript%2C+%26+Technology+Ramblings%29&utm_content=Google+Reader">Why You Should Always Use Active Record | CodeSanity</a>: <p>Read: security and maintainability.  Let the framework do the talking to the database instead of reinventing the wheel every time.</p>http://pelanne.com/post/433663209http://pelanne.com/post/433663209Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:19:00 -0500<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://cdn-i.dmdentertainment.com/DMVideoPlayer/player_cr.swf" id="player" height="249" width="400"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="movie" value="http://cdn-i.dmdentertainment.com/DMVideoPlayer/player_cr.swf" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="flashVars" value="demand_preroll=true&ID=18156&height=37&demand_iconlink=http%3A//www.cracked.com/&demand_preroll_source=http%3A//cdn-www.cracked.com/php/video/Pre-Roll1b_cr.swf&TITLE=A%20Trailer%20for%20Every%20Academy%20Award%20Winning%20Movie%20Ever&demand_report_url=http%3A//www.cracked.com/update.aspx&demand_autoplay=0&DESC=&demand_content_id=18156&sitename=Cracked.com&demand_page_url=http%3A//www.cracked.com/video_18156_a-trailer-every-academy-award-winning-movie-ever.html&v=2.2.3&KEYWORDS=&demand_content_sourcekey=cracked.com&video_title=A%20Trailer%20for%20Every%20Academy%20Award%20Winning%20Movie%20Ever&adPartner=Adap&KEY=DemandMediacracked&demand_show_replay=true&demand_tracking=1&ADAPTAG=BriTANicK&demand_related=1&skin=http%3A//cdn-i.dmdentertainment.com/DMVideoPlayer/playerskin_cr.swf&CATEGORIES=Movies%20%26%20TV&COMPANION_DIV_ID=adaptv_ad_companion_div&demand_related_feed=http%3A//www.cracked.com/video_related_18156_a-trailer-every-academy-award-winning-movie-ever.xml&source=http%3A//cdn-www.cracked.com/phpimages/videos/9/4/1/19941_608X342.flv&demand_iconurl=http%3A//cdn-www.cracked.com/sites/cracked2/images/favicon.gif&URL=http%3A//cdn-www.cracked.com/phpimages/videos/9/4/1/19941_608X342.flv&demand_icontext=Watch%20more%20videos%20at%20Cracked.com%20America%27s%20only%20humor%20site." /></object><br/><br/><p>Every Academy Award-Winning Movie Ever Made</p>http://pelanne.com/post/432760237http://pelanne.com/post/432760237Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:21:00 -0500<a href="http://www.flashmagazine.com/reviews/detail/mate_event_driven_framework_for_flex/">Mate: Event driven framework for Flex > Reviews > Flash Magazine</a>: <p>Been using this on a project at work.  A little difficult to wrap the brain around, but it results in some simple-looking code.</p>http://pelanne.com/post/431957693http://pelanne.com/post/431957693Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:39:00 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kywdbbfXy11qzo4cbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>Fa la la la</b></p>http://pelanne.com/post/431766211http://pelanne.com/post/431766211Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:45:17 -0500<a href="http://www.pseudocoder.com/archives/2009/05/13/free-cakephp-e-book-super-awesome-advanced-cakephp-tips/">Free CakePHP E-Book - Advanced CakePHP Tips | PseudoCoder.com</a>: <p>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.</p>http://pelanne.com/post/431556677http://pelanne.com/post/431556677Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:56:00 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyvf33aWKh1qzo4cbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>Git Off My Lawn!</b></p>http://pelanne.com/post/430523158http://pelanne.com/post/430523158Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:24:45 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyvf2h7q8v1qzo4cbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>Friday Rockin’ Eve</b></p>http://pelanne.com/post/430522568http://pelanne.com/post/430522568Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:24:45 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyvf2mYMin1qzo4cbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>Howdy</b></p>http://pelanne.com/post/430522729http://pelanne.com/post/430522729Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:24:45 -0500<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyvf2xSUHH1qzo4cbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>Repose with Bob and Duck</b></p>http://pelanne.com/post/430523006http://pelanne.com/post/430523006Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:24:45 -0500<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kytpsjduKn1qzo4cbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>B is for Bob</b></p>http://pelanne.com/post/428694766http://pelanne.com/post/428694766Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:20:52 -0500<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyse7jphO91qzo4cbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>Fetcher le lapin!</b></p>http://pelanne.com/post/427346192http://pelanne.com/post/427346192Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:13:36 -0500<p>going on capsaicin induced do not disturb for the next few minutes.</p>http://pelanne.com/post/424656850http://pelanne.com/post/424656850Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:22:14 -0500<p>After recycling approximately two billion cardboard boxes I’m beginning to see the original shape of the inside of our garage</p>http://pelanne.com/post/423347539http://pelanne.com/post/423347539Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:24:22 -0500