Entries written in February 2009

Written February 27, 2009 in meta, photography

My first computer, in 1991-1992, was a IBM PS/2 with a 20mb hard drive and 2mb (later upgraded to 6) of RAM. My current digital camera outputs 10.1mb RAW files.

Yeah, do the math.

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Written February 23, 2009 in apple

I’m going to be taking a few days “off” from posting and emailing ‘cept for the limited amount I do at work. My only home computer these days is a MacBook Pro, and it’s headed off for a week at the Apple Resort, aka AppleCare. Updates will resume when I’m …

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Written February 20, 2009 in webdev

Friday funnies:

Secret Driven-Development Acronyms

Proposed Subversion commands

With both, see the comments for extra user-added LOLz.

Seems people are already spooling up the laugh tracks for April Fools day.

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Written February 14, 2009 in reading list

This is what single geeks think about on Valentine’s day. To complement my previous post on the 2d LOVE game engine, which allows you to quickly write games using the Lua scripting engine, here’s the list of things I’ve read regularly that have been interesting.

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Written February 11, 2009 in wordpress

Wordpress 2.7 included a new automatic update feature — tools -> upgrade — that replaces the functionality that was previously only available from a plugin. Unfortunately, the new feature is completely incompatible with the plugin.

If you’re trying to auto-upgrade your plugin and you get a hang at “Unpacking the …

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Written February 9, 2009 in mysql

Apparently I’ve been living under a rock for the past three years.

group_concat. To use it is to know it, and to know it is to love it.

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Written February 6, 2009 in php, reading list

It’s been a while, but that just means that I’ve had the free time to keep up with my reading and haven’t had to make a list to come back to later.

  • About Slugging; that’s primarily of interest to DC people but is a very cool concept.
  • Related to the

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Written February 4, 2009 in php

MySQL DBA has a great article on how to reduce load and response time in a PHP application… they do it by cutting down on a lot of the autoloading that happens when PHP wakes up and starts to process a page.

Another way to accomplish a similar thing …

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Written February 3, 2009 in webdev

The Five Hidden Costs Of Running A Content Management System (Via The Big Contrarian)

I wish someone at work had read this before we implemented Zope/Plone. Sure, it’s nice to be able to train stakeholders in one system and have them maintain content on multiple sites, but the cost …

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