From the monthly archives: April 2009

Geek Links

By On April 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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 [...]

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Apparently people hate me

By On April 22, 2009 · 3 Comments

Not sure what I did, but I found this at the bottom of my chess game on facebook.

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Enable Mod Rewrite Error Log

By On April 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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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Erlang: Understanding gen_server

By On April 22, 2009 · 1 Comment

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 because I can’t just implement [...]

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Interesting Programmer Links

By On April 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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 the Twitter libmemcached [...]

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C# on the Mac with Eclipse

By On April 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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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Erlang: Create schema before starting mnesia

By On April 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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.

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Adium crushes every Windows IM client

By On April 17, 2009 · 2 Comments

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 wondering what my requirements are.

Clean interface. [...]

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The Mac Mini Now Supports Dual Monitors

By On April 16, 2009 · 4 Comments

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 a triplehead2go, and I ran 3 [...]

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