Archive for April, 2009
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
PHP Quick Profiler
This looks like a pretty cool tool to get a good idea of what's going on in your PHP script without having to install tools like XDebug and Webgrind / KCacheGrind.
Apple files patent for browser specific volume
I'm not sure how this is anything new, tons of applications have ...
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Not sure what I did, but I found this at the bottom of my chess game on facebook.
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Just a quickie - throw this in your apache config if you need error logging for mod_rewrite. Useful in a dev environment, not so much in production.
RewriteLog /var/log/httpd/rewrite.log
RewriteLogLevel 9
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Gen_server is a great way to create simple servers without having to write a lot of code at all. Here's a brief overview to get you started.
For some reason, figuring out how the gen_server behavior works in erlang was kind of a pain for me. I think it's ...
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Peeping into memcached.
Really interesting read about how to examine what's stored in memcached.
Peep uses ptrace to freeze a running memcached server, dump the internal key metadata, and return the server to a running state. If you have a good host ejection mechanism in your client, such as in ...
Posted in linux, mysql, tips | No Comments »
Monday, April 20th, 2009
It looks like developing using c# and eclipse on the Mac is pretty easy, at least on first glance. Here's a good guide to get started.
It only took about 2 minutes to go from "I think I'll give this a shot" to "sweet it compiled."
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
If you're running into trouble with Mnesia not writing your data to disk, make sure you create the schema BEFORE you start mnesia. Otherwise you'll get errors like
opt_disc. Directory "c:/Documents and Settings/jhaddad/workspace/Mnesia.localhost@whatever" is NOT used.
Posted in erlang | No Comments »
Friday, April 17th, 2009
So, recent job switch. No longer at Demand, and no longer on Mac. Windows is mandatory. Once again I quest for software that doesn't suck. I've tried Pidgin, Trillian, and now digsby, and all are AWFUL when compared to the beautiful, elegant Adium.
Oh, and if you're ...
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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
The Mac Mini is now capable of running dual monitors. This, to me, is huge. It's a machine that comes in a decent price that developers are used to, while allowing us to keep our dignity and use our own monitors.
A few months ago, I bought ...
Posted in apple | 4 Comments »