Oof. The site was offline for a good 30 hours or so. I attempted to add a Ruby On Rails install to FastCGI for a family related project I’ve been working on and my server totally exploded.. even the file system became unreadable. It reminded me a lot of a ‘buildworld’ [...]

I’ve been heads down coding for what seems like 8 years now when in reality it’s just a few months, so I’ve been a little out of touch with what else is going on in the Boulder start-up scene. This also explains my spotty blog posting, but hopefully I’ll get a chance to post [...]

My blog postings have been fairly sparse since starting a new position earlier this year, but it’s nice to finally be able to show some of the things happening at my not-so-new job. My employer, Me.dium, just announced today the availability of an IE 7 Version of the Me.dium Sidebar, as well as a [...]

Well, now that I’ve seen the company I will be working at soon has recently been dugg and is also presenting at DEMO 07 within the next couple of days, it seems like a good time to announce that I’m spending my last days as an Acxiom employee and joining a startup called Me.dium.
I feel [...]

I’m in the process of transitioning this blog from content consisting of items about my personal life and interests to instead focus on software development. That said, I’ve started removing all links to external sites of friends (you’re now linked from my new personal blog) and also reorganizing categories. A few of my [...]

I’ve been meaning to start turning the content of this site into a fairly focused software development blog for awhile, and finally got one of the first major steps done. As I mentioned earlier, I’ve finally moved all of my personal stuff to a new blog which is tentatively titled blog.bharper, and will [...]

I just moved away from running mod_php5 under Apache 2 to running PHP5 under FastCGI for a number of reasons, including that I will be deploying some Python apps on this same server before terribly long and didn’t want the overhead of mod_php5 and mod_python on each request.
This is my first FastCGI install [...]

This blog has obviously turned into one of mostly technical matters. At the moment, I have a pretty strong readership all things considered (about 1,500-2000 unique visitors a day) which mostly seem to be looking for technical content, so that’s what this blog has been for awhile. About half of those look to [...]

If you’re reading this message, a DNS change has finally been relayed to your DNS client and you’re hitting this site on my new server.
After many minor problems hosting at home (mostly outages for various networking/power reasons) and not having enough bandwidth to survive being digg’ed or Slashdotted, I recently decided to seek a hosting [...]

My Slashdotting entry is being dugg/digged again. More to follow, but so far today I’ve served up 8K users, and have a bunch of active connections:

Active Internet connections
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address (state)
tcp6 [...]