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• 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 …

C# on the Mac with Eclipse

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 …

'Erlang: Create schema before starting mnesia'

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 …

Adium crushes every Windows IM client

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, …

The Mac Mini Now Supports Dual Monitors

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 …

Using the Filter Query in Solr (fq)

Filter queries are applied to a result set after it has generated the search results. This can be useful in cases where you want to filter by category or user.

In my use case, I’d like to …

'Setting up a Solr Index '

Setting up a solr index isn’t that hard, but I found the documentation to be somewhat hard to find. It only took me a few hours from start to finish to go from download to indexing my …

'Found Code: Replacing Runs of Commas'

I found this gem today.

$special = str_replace(",,,,",",",$special); $special = str_replace(",,,",",",$special); $special = …

Using mod_rewrite with VirtualDocumentRoot

In our dev environment, we use VirtualDocumentRoot to avoid configuring new environments when we get a new developer. It’s awesome.

However, if you try to use mod_rewrite, you’ll find …