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LifeStream Aggregators
A few months ago I was asked to do a Technology Due Diligence of SocialThing. My 1st reaction was why do we need another aggregator? We have BuddyFeed and several technologies that are proven to...
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Good Times at BarCampDC2
On Saturday, I spent the day at BarCampDC2. Like last year there were plenty of great sessions. I really wanted to discuss Amazon’s EC2 as I think it is where most small companies should be moving...
View ArticleDon’t let internal wikis leak company secrets.
Good wiki pages have good titles and the title is usually in the URL. This is all well and good but if you’re creating pages on a corporate wiki that is hidden from the outside world, your title may...
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Why I chose The Rackspace Cloud over AWS
Last October at BarCamp DC 2 I ran a session called “To Cloud or Not? AWS, EC2, S3 or build your own“. Unfortunately the barcamp wiki died and my notes are gone but at the time it seemed that...
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My experience with Rackspace Cloud Sites
I’ve been using Rackspace’s Cloud Servers for months now and I thought moving some of our standard PHP apps (like wordpress) to Cloud Sites would save me some time as a sysadmin/developer. I also...
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My WordPress Notes
While I’ve been using WordPress for my blog for over 5 years I dig into the internals so rarely that I often forget some of the cool things I’ve learned and done. In addition to my blog I’ve used it...
View ArticleSetting up Sunspot/Solr for OR queries, stemming and lower memory usage
As I keep finding in Rails 3, the Gems I used in Rails 2 no longer work or have fallen out of favor. In Rails 2 acts_as_ferret met my searching needs but after submitting some fixes for Rails 3 and...
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Is Ubuntu Server winning over CentOS folks?
For years I have used Ubuntu for my desktop environment and CentOS in production. Why? Ubuntu makes a great desktop distro and since CentOS is basically a copy of Red Hat, it is considered an...
View ArticleRack-Cache on Rails 3 – the unadvertised caching option
Today I was poking around in the rails tmp/cache directory and I saw an entry I did not expect. It appeared that a controller action was being cached but I was not using, page, action or fragment...
View ArticleCustomer requested email spoofing: SPF, DKIM and the desire to please your...
Innocent Beginnings I have worked on a handful of web applications that send mail as a core feature. In all cases, no matter how much I protest, we end up with customers that insist on mail sent on...
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