The Apple iPad was announced yesterday and I do believe the hype was so insane leading up to the announcement that Steve Jobs could have introduced a semi-transparent 1/4 inch laser screen that ran for a month on full charge and people would still have made fun of the name. I kind of think [...]
While this blog is new, I want to ensure I keep content going lest it goes abandoned and six months from now I wonder what happened. Most of my original inspiration on putting content here is based on useful work I do. Not having anything interesting to share from current work, I’ll share [...]
Most web searches for adding the imagick extension to MAMP suggest using MacPorts to install ImageMagick and then use this compiled version as the library to running ‘pecl install imagick’.
As I was in the process of setting up a clean Mac Book Pro, I tried going through this process. I quickly [...]
About two years ago before my daughter was born I talked my wife into the value of having a video camera to record all those wonderful moments that kids are supposed to have. At the time I was a fan of Sony products and we ended up purchasing the Sony HDR-SR5 High Definition Camcorder. [...]
If you have spent any time recently look into the state of web servers then you know that nginx is getting recommended as the replacement for apache left, right and center. Apache has a rich history, platform extensive, and highly extensible, and while these are great traits it’s 15 years of legacy code hasn’t seemed [...]
I looked into virtual hosting solutions about a year ago and found Slicehost. The original impetus was to have a server in the cloud in order to host a code repository and test server for things I work on in spare time. Some of the requirements I was looking for included root access, good management [...]
It has occurred to me recently that I have spent the last 16 or so years using the Internet, 25 years learning various programming languages, and last 12 years working in a professional manner in consulting. And while I early on used to put public comments and respond to questions on newsgroups and what not, [...]