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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]