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Stray Notes » Blog Archive » Running Kcachegrind on Mac OSX 10.4

0 Comments Published by Ben Wann October 26th, 2006 in Nerd, Technology, rants, How-To, PHP, Mac OSX

I posted earlier on how to Get Rich with PHP5.
In that article Rasmus Lerdorf writes about how to use a certain set of debugging tools as well as PECL packages and database modifications to really tweak some serious speed out of your PHP web application.
I use a powerbook G4 for my PHP hackery, so some […]

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Per Vivere [To Live]: Holly Shelf Unit, Batman!

1 Comment Published by Ben Wann October 25th, 2006 in Family, Nerd

Per Vivere [To Live]: Holly Shelf Unit, Batman!
I must have one of these!!!!
When I buy a house, you can count on me putting one of these in.

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AI3 - Adaptive Information::: » Blog Archive » Extending TinyMCE, the WordPress Rich Text Editor

0 Comments Published by Ben Wann October 23rd, 2006 in St.Louis, Nerd, Technology

AI3 - Adaptive Information::: » Blog Archive » Extending TinyMCE, the WordPress Rich Text Editor
I am very grateful for this bit of sleuthing that went on at the AI3 blog.
I am using this nice little hack, and will certainly use it on my all other blogs.
Thanks!

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I.Cringely - “YouTube is the factory outlet of commercial television, at least for now.”

0 Comments Published by Ben Wann October 20th, 2006 in St.Louis, Nerd, Technology

I love Robert Cringely’s pulpit column at PBS.org.
He always has a depth to his analysis that I appreciate.
Last week, he talked about YouTube because c’mon, WHO HASN’T! For crying out loud, my grandmother asked me about it. If there is anyone out there who says that YouTube isn’t a common household word, I […]

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How to Build a Low Cost Internet Appliance Server

0 Comments Published by Ben Wann October 12th, 2006 in St.Louis, Nerd, Technology

How to Build a Low Cost Internet Appliance Server
Here is an awesome article on how to convert that old x86 server into a sweet Internet Appliance Server.
(Think print server!!!)
I am all over this!

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Evolutionary Database Design

0 Comments Published by Ben Wann October 11th, 2006 in St.Louis, Nerd, Technology

Evolutionary Database Design
This is a very interesting article surrounding how to build a database in a collaborative environment of developers.

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Getting Rich with PHP 5

1 Comment Published by Ben Wann October 6th, 2006 in St.Louis, Nerd, Technology

Getting Rich with PHP 5
Oh Rasmus, you are so wise!
A good read for all of your PHP5 nuts out there.
I wish I was in norway!

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Check your PHP code at every level with unit tests

0 Comments Published by Ben Wann October 5th, 2006 in St.Louis, Nerd, Technology

Check your PHP code at every level with unit tests
A great article spelling out just how to implement Unit Tests with PHP and PHPUnit.

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Apache 2.2.3 and PHP 5.1.5 curl 7.15.5 Compiled on Powerbook G4 17″

0 Comments Published by Ben Wann August 25th, 2006 in St.Louis, Nerd, Technology

Finally got my powerbook re-setup using the latest and greatest from PHP, Apache, and libcurl. (of course all of the other goodness as well)
Here is the order:

Curl. If you need a new version of curl and libcurl installed: go here http://curl.haxx.se.
You will need to compile from source. Important note here: Make sure that you […]

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The Perils of PERL

0 Comments Published by Ben Wann April 19th, 2006 in St.Louis, Nerd, Technology, Serafini Studios

Having spent the better part of the last three weeks working on a system with very weird requirements and a VERY specific set of tools available to implement this change in, I have found myself neck deep in Perl code. The requirements changed multiple times throughout the process, causing much strife for my newly […]

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