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Updated: January 1, 2008January 27, 2007

Slayer's Tom Arraya Richard Dawkins, PhD " I reject all the biblical views of the truth, dismiss it as the folklore of the times.. I won't be force fed prophecies from a book of untruths for the weakened mind " <- W0rd..

Updated: January 1, 2008December 21, 2006

Here's a how-to to show you how to run a local (development mode) Rubyonrails application using Lighttpd proxied under an Apache vhost on Mac OS X. You can use this same configuration in a production environment with a few minor changes. First, make some directories in your home directory. The Lighttpd process will run as your user and will live in your home directory, logs,...

Updated: January 1, 2008October 18, 2006

It's a sad thing to admit but I've been thinking about Slashdot off and on for several months now. I'm a long-time Slashdot member , making comments about article postings, even drawing some flames at times from other posters who disagree with me. It's all good fun sharing opinions with other nerds.I think Slashdot's days are numbered. And here's why: News arrives late. ...

Updated: January 1, 2008August 29, 2006

So this guy, let's call him Ronald, told me about a bug report someone filed against PHP 5.1.6: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=38630 The bug report includes a link to my benchmarks I wrote against and early version of PHP 5: http://destiney.com/benchmarks/db_insert_select The funny thing is the PHP developer who responded thinks it's "normal" for O...

Updated: January 1, 2008July 7, 2006

Consider the api definition for form_tag: form_tag( url_for_options = {}, options = {}, *parameters_for_url, &proc) This form_tag: <%= form_tag( :action => 'upload', :multipart => true ) %> Produces this: <form action="/home/upload?multipart=true" method="post"...

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Updated: January 1, 2008June 29, 2006

My wife Andrea taped the hail storm that caused over $8K worth of damage to our cars collectively. I added some old guitar riffs I recorded a long time ago. Enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKhG8INo8ms

Updated: January 1, 2008June 3, 2006

Java applets usually do not interest me, but every now and then a really cool will come along. I found on that shows a graphical tree representation for a given website. Check out destiney.com .

Updated: January 1, 2008May 22, 2006

I finally got around to adding a search feature to my site. It is an ajax-based realtime search setup. It searches both my content database and my blog entries database. I hope it doesn't cause too much database load.. hopefully not since I have indexing on all the searched fields.

Updated: January 1, 2008May 10, 2006

After a while of writing code to make this site do what I want it to do, followed by an admin site to control all the data I want to store, I am finally getting around to writing some tests. So far I have a basic unit test for each model and its fixtures, and tonight I finished a css tester. The CSS test uploads each style sheet it finds to the w3.org validator and processes t...

Updated: January 1, 2008September 3, 2005

In case you weren't aware, the current availability of PHP 5 and MySQL 4.1 on Gentoo Linux is pretty much non-existent. Many PHP/MySQL developers using Gentoo Linux are frustrated and fed up with waiting on the Gentoo developers to repair the broken ebuilds currently in portage. Worse than that, instead of fixing the broken ebuilds, time is being wasted developing alternate ways ...

Updated: January 1, 2008July 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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Updated: January 1, 2008February 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...

Updated: January 1, 2008August 13, 2007

Gen 1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also. But then Bill Nye reminded us the moon is not an actual light source. The moon's light is a reflection of the sun's light. Seems as if God really only made one great light along with a dead rock that can reflect light. And...

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Updated: January 1, 2008April 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...

Updated: January 1, 2008December 6, 2006

Do you run a bunch of networked eggdrops on Linux? You realize they talk to each other over telnet which is unencrypted right? You didn't know that? Hmm.. Here's how you lock your hub bot down so it only talks to leaf bots from trusted hosts: #!/bin/bash LEAFS =(" 12.34.56.78 " " 21.43.65.87 ") for LEAF in ${ LEAFS [ @ ]}; ...

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