Ubuntu has built in home folder encryption similar to OSX. I always turn on this feature on both OSs and have never experienced any perceptible performance hit. This guide shows one approach to migrating the MySQL data directory into the … Continue reading
In PHP placing an @ symbol in front of an expression (variable or function call) tells php to suppress any error messages that expression generates. I find this to be a handy piece of syntactic sugar. When used correctly the … Continue reading
For anyone interested in code, networking, and finance, Flash Boys is a real page turner. For me personally, with interests in all three, it sent chills up my spine. I could not put it down!!! Flash Boys is a fascinating, … Continue reading
Ran into a situation on a customer’s CentOS server the other day where a service wasn’t working. Symptoms and error messages indicated the disk was full. However ‘$ df -h’ was showing ample free space. What the heck? Turned out … Continue reading
Here is the CSS I’m using for my WordPress blog to improve the way Gists look. UPDATE 4/2016 – There used to be a major post here with a Gist, but I recently discovered GitHub improved their CSS making my … Continue reading
Grunt is a front end build tool I’ve used on the last several projects. It handles CSS / JavaScript minification, concatenation, and linting really well. Some of my legacy projects use a combination of bash and Yahoo UI Compressor, which … Continue reading
Wolfram Alpha has always been a interesting if not quirky ‘intelligent search engine’. It can do things like: Take derivatives – d(ln(x))/dx Generate star charts Show the position of the International Space Station Get detailed nutrition facts Stock analysis (Facebook) Routlette Payoffs … Continue reading
Recently implemented a Captcha field on a signup page. So, to start with I looked around for a good plugin to handle this. ReCaptcha was the first one that popped up. ReCaptcha does support themeing, which is nice since the … Continue reading
My first boss taught me there are two types of programmers: pluggers and rock stars. It was the late 90’s, and programming talent was in high demand. I was the young gun they brought in. A plugger would not have … Continue reading
I don’t always test my code, but when I do, I do it in Production.
