Author: Josh Sherman
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The Zen of the Server Crash
I was talking to someone last week about how I attempt to keep cool when things fall apart. I call it “the Zen of the Server Crash” and as luck would have it, everything started to fall apart that afternoon. First to go was our Internet connection at CrowdSavings.com HQ….
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Why you shouldn’t redirect HTTP errors back to / or how I learned to always include a favicon.ico file
I have this nasty habit of being completely dismissive of HTTP error handling by not handling 404 errors and setting the ErrorDocument in my .htaccess file to point to / (e.g. ErrorDocument 404 /). For the most part, this has never been an issue shy of needing to explain why…
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Ditched WordPress
To at least one person’s dismay, I have abandoned WordPress for not only my blog, but for any future endeavours. WordPress seems great if you can’t build a blog on your own and would rather interact with a series of plug-ins than get your hands dirty with some code. I’m…
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My Thoughts on Rails Rumble
Anyone that knows me knows that I’m not a big fan of Rails, largely due to the fact that I dislike the community. So this year, I decided to follow the Rails Rumble on Twitter just because I found it all fairly intriguing and wanted to see the different stages…
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Setting up a secure MySQL server on Rackspace Cloud Servers
Recently I’ve been building out dedicated MySQL servers to combat some of the shortcomings we have encountered with hosting MySQL on Rackspace Cloud Sites (commentary on this will be saved for another post). During my research on what I could do to set up the server as securely as possible…
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Why I recently switched to WordPress
Anyone that knows me knows that I’m not a huge fan of using canned web applications. I find them to be insecure (talking to you OSCommerce) often times a pain to upgrade and more often than that a nightmare to customize. Keep in mind that I do feel WordPress is…
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Gravity Boulevard Redesign
Been a few years since the original design was put in place, and I was starting to think the site was a bit too sterile / business-y (especially since I have retired from doing freelance [again]). New site attempts to be hip and modern by using a high res photograph…
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Moustache.ME
Sucks when you put a chunk of hours into something just to realize that someone else has already done it. Case in point, I finished up Moustache.ME after realizing that someone already runs Mustache.me on a similar concept. Well I’m sticking to my guns on “moustache” being the proper spelling,…
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ID Much? – An Alternative to “See ID”
Wow, quite the productive Saturday, even made time for two blog posts. So a while back I swapped out “See ID” on the back of my credit card for “ID Much?”. I’ve been so amazed at the response that I decided to put up a site about it, you can…
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Script to Install Adobe Air on Ubuntu 64-bit
So after giving Gwibber an honest try for a few months, I’ve decided it’s time to move back to DestroyTwitter for my tweeting needs. Unfortunately, earlier in the year when I completely denounced Adobe products (specifically Flash) I went ahead and completely removed Air from my system. But alas, I…