so-you-wanna-see-an-image
We’ve been asked how we manage serving files from Amazons very cool S3 service at WordPress.com… This is how. (covering…
Software Development
Useful bash oneliner: List Server IP Addresses
for i in $(/sbin/ifconfig | grep addr: | cut -d’:’ -f2 | cut -d’ ‘ -f1 | grep -Ev ‘^$’);…
Autumn Leaves Leaf #3: Commander
This leaf is capable of running a script on the local server in response to the !deploy channel command. For…
Autumn Leaves Leaf #2: Feeder
This handy little bot keeps track of RSS feeds, and announces in the channel when one is updated. (note: be…
Autumn Leaves Leaf #1: Announcer
This bot is perfect for anything where you need to easily build IRC channel notifications into an existing process. It’s…
Autumn Leaves (a ruby framework for IRC bots)
What an awesome awesome thing for people who use IRC in their day to day lives! I’ll post a couple…
Throughput sensitive fputs/fwrite (in php)
I’d be glad for anyone who cares to look to read and comment on these functions. The idea is to…
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…
The iPhone… Its not even out yet and everyone is drooling over it
And if they aren’t, they should be! Ajax has long been the missing link between phones as a mobile computing…
nasty regex
I’m putting this here for documentation purposes… Because getting it right was a very frustrating ordeal (I’d never had to…