I began looking at divshare a few days ago as a way to stor, save, and share my personal photo collection. The idea of auto-galleries, unlimited space, flash video, and possible FTP access was… enticing. But it’s tough to tell how something like this is going to work on a large scale… So… after messing [...]
Us web 2.0 and web 3.0 people have a hard time caring about the things that normal people care about. And we have a hard time believing that people don’t care about the things that we do. In short we’re a large group of very detached individuals who are, more or less, free to form [...]
Long time readers of this blog will assert that I have no problem presenting an unpopular opinion, and/or sticking my foot in my mouth. Some times both at once! (“But wait… there’s more!”) So when N. Shah asks me how he should split his database (a tags table, items table, and users table) I say: [...]
I know, I know, I’ve been silent for quite some time. Well Let me assure you that I’m quite all right! Are you less worried about me now? Oh good. (Yes I’m a cynical bastage sometimes.) So life has, as it tends to do, come at me pretty fast. I’ve left my previous employer, Ookles, [...]
Since I’ve worked out the kinks mentioned in my last blog entry (was a problem with re-escaping already escaped data, by the way (never debug while sick and sleep deprived!)) I’ve scraped things together into a class which is a client for the api itself. It’s relatively sparse right now, but good enough for using [...]
Small comedy of errors there. Down for a bit. We apologize for the inconvenience. Management will be refunding ticket prices at the door on the way out. We hope you’ll enjoy the rest of the movie. Cheers
Rentzsch.com says programmers don’t like to code… Yea… I’ll buy that. I’ve described “what I do” to many many people as “solving tough problems.” I’d much rather get into the problem itself than write all the scaffolding and crap that lets me get face to face with it. So yea. Sign me up. Cheers
I’m really very impressed with the speed at which the Openfount guys responded to my last post. I definitely give Kudos to Bill for being on top of things! I’m running out the door so I’ll keep this short and sweet. He’s right, I did generalize databases into InnoDB, but thats because it’s what I [...]
I mentioned a while back that I was going to be playing with the S3 Infinidisk Product. What I found in my testing was that this product is not prime time ready. There was a nasty bug which caused data to be lost if the mv command was used. The scripts themselves were unintuitive. They [...]
I’ve been working very hard (and very constantly) lately, and as is the case with most technical creators this means that the blog has suffered a lack of posts recently. This is an attempt not to make up for that, but to fill in the gap with a bit of noise. I like to think [...]