Anatomy of a mostly-dead network catastrophy
One of the things that you hear over and over again is that “the network is not reliable.” You hear…
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nasty regex
I’m putting this here for documentation purposes… Because getting it right was a very frustrating ordeal (I’d never had to…
All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the best one.
Occam’s razor strikes again! Tonight we ran into an interesting problem. A web service – with a very simple time-elapsed…
wordpress.com squeezed out another baby last night
Congrats to http://claudiacanals.wordpress.com/ which happens to be our one millionth hosted blog. This happened around 11:38pm PDT, and weighed 7lbs…
Backgrounding Chained Commands in Bash
Sometimes it’s desirable to have a chain of commands backgrounded so that a multi-step process can be run in parallel.…
You’re only ever done debugging for now.
I’m the kinda guy who owns up to my mistakes. I also strive to be the kinda guy who learns…
Any… good… php devs out there looking for some side work?
I know a group of guys looking to do some cool stuff who could use a few good contractors. Drop…
DivShare, Day 1 (raw commentary)
I began looking at divshare a few days ago as a way to stor, save, and share my personal photo…
tags, items, users – loose the joins – gain the freedom.
Long time readers of this blog will assert that I have no problem presenting an unpopular opinion, and/or sticking my…
Whoa, talk about neglecting your weblog! Bad Form!
I know, I know, I’ve been silent for quite some time. Well Let me assure you that I’m quite all…