I do a lot of things for Automattic, and many of the things I do are quite esoteric (for a php developer anyways.) Perl is not my language of choice, but I’ve never balked at a challenge…. just… did it have to be perl? Anyways. We have more than a thousand machines that we track [...]
[edit: link] I already see the Stallmanites rallying for their battle cries. Never using anything you didn’t write yourself is an asinine concept, in my opinion… This coming from someone who can write web services himself. The truth is that using services “in the cloud,” “on the web,” or anywhere else is just like using [...]
This is pretty clever… Might have to code this up in PHP… memcachequeue-a-pure-memcached-queue
if you’re dealing with user uploaded images in any non-passthrough way (such as resizing, converting, etc) you may be familiar with this particular error message for corrupt images: “Corrupt JPEG data: xxx extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9″ Regardless of who, how, or why this happens the error is usually non fatal as far as the [...]
It looks nice… but will Palm be able to pull out of their nose-dive? I guess, to my mind, if Palm were a scene from a movie It’s be the end of the subway scene from the first Matrix movie. Palm is neo on the edge of the platform trying not to get sucked into [...]