Google stops development on 6 services
[edit: link] I already see the Stallmanites rallying for their battle cries. Never using anything you didn’t write yourself is…
Random Thoughts
A Pure Memcached Queue
This is pretty clever… Might have to code this up in PHP… memcachequeue-a-pure-memcached-queue
php image functions failing on uploaded images
if you’re dealing with user uploaded images in any non-passthrough way (such as resizing, converting, etc) you may be familiar…
Palms new phone
It looks nice… but will Palm be able to pull out of their nose-dive? I guess, to my mind, if…
A tale of two gamers
Gamer #1 — The youngster. The youngster grew up playing games… The NES isn’t so much nostalgic as archaic. They…
A counting bloom filter
This is just me screwing around, really…. This implements a counting bloom filter in native php. I read about bloom…
Using wait, $!, and () for threading in bash
This is a simplistic use of the pattern that I wrote about in my last post to wait on multiple…
bash – collecting the return value of backgrounded processes
You know that you can run something in the background in a bash script with ( command )&, but a…
a dumbed down version of wpdb for sqlite
I’ve been working, gradually, on a project using an sqlite3 database (for its convenience) and found myself missing the clean…