Entries written in September 2008
It’s funny that I posted yesterday about Kristin’s hobby-turned-cottage-industry, MeanBean Bags, because one of my favorite blogs posted an article entitled “Making and Doing: The Value of Productive Hobbies” yesterday.
I’ve been working to make my hobbies pay for years. In fact, all of my hobbies pay. …
One of my oldest friends just re-opened her Etsy store after taking the summer off. Mean Bean Handbags are all unique, are handcrafted with love, and benefit a great cause. Christmas is approaching — why not get your mom or sister something nice that they can’t get anywhere else? …
I ran into a big problem with a client site this past week, and I owe it all to my coworker Jeff Carouth for helping me see it from a different angle.
My client’s specification called for two behaviors that monkey with ZF’s usual domain.tld/module/controller/action or domain.tld/controller/action routing mechanism. …
“Finding Time To Pursue Your Dreams — free up 750 hours a year with one simple change!” was posted this morning over at Get Rich Slowly … And people wonder how I manage to find time to work a full time job, do dog training, do canine rescue …
It turns out that my post from last year about my tonsillectomy is very popular on the ‘nets, and people have posted over 840 comments sharing their stories and questions over the past year. Since it’s been so hard to track discussions, I’ve set up a forum to …
The financial markets are gyrating like a drunken fratboy as our economy burns, but the internet’s fiddling right along…
- Yubikey secures the web - A Yubikey is a USB key that will generate a randomized password. It identifies itself as a keyboard, and will generate and enter the password
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Just in case I don’t update or approve new comments for a few days, College Station is about to get hit by Hurricane Ike. We’re 120 miles inland, but still expected to get something approaching 70 or 80mph winds. The dogs are passed out and I’m putting together a bare …
- NYTFS: A no-frills kitchen on $300.
- Grocery guy on chef’s knives (via Anil Dash).
- New favorite hurricane tracker: Storm Pulse.
- Bears mentioning again, my FAVORITE hurricane tracking website with knowledgeable discussion: HardcoreWeather
Freshbooks ran into an interesting bit about selecting a MySQL Table Cache size:
The problem was caused by our new configuration of MySQL. The usual approach to setting MySQL’s table cache size is to make it large enough that it can hold all of your tables open, but
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This is going around like a bad cold, but here goes.
How old were you when you started programming?
I first tried at 12, but couldn’t get started in a way that was meaningful to me. I ran into a problem at 18 in college that I solved with an Access …
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