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 [...]

The default Eclipse for Mac OS X font is kind of annoying since it’s way too big and reminds me of MS Comic Sans. If you try to replace it with one of the wonderful ProggyFonts without tweaking them first, you get stuck with anti-aliased fonts that look terrible. During my quest to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’ve always been a huge open source software proponent– this blog is ran by FreeBSD, PHP, WordPress, Apache, MySQL, etc., yet the PHP language has never really sat well with me. It’s always reminded me way too much of a derivative of C for the web, becoming more C++ like with it’s carnation of [...]

Courtesy of the Ruby On Rails Wiki, you can see the results of a simple load test of Django vs. Ruby on Rails vs. Symfony. I’m actually kind of surprised by the results that the PHP powered Symfony produced. As with all benchmarks these should be taken with a grain of salt, [...]

After dealing with some very opnioniated PHP bigots in the past (but, such characters are present with any topic of interest really), I can’t help but post a link to this article talking about what looks to be a waining interest in PHP as of late.

This last eight months saw Intel, SAP, Oracle and IBM [...]

On Sunday, March 6th of 2005 I was messing around on my workstation retagging some Mp3’s so I could add them into my iPod playlists when I got a GMail notification of a new comment on my blog. I went to check it out and it was fairly basic comment “prepare to be slashdotted. [...]

I just installed the PHP caching compiler, eAccelerator, so the site should be a bit faster. Well, not that it was a slouch before or anything.
It looks like normal (dynamic) pages are being served in around 100-155ms, while pre-cached individual entries are being served in 0-10ms. Yum!
I think I’m ready to try that [...]

As you can probably see, this site has been completely changed. Mostly I just wanted to move from turtle slow MovableType to WordPress which I’ve been using on another site for about a year and even sent them a donation last Summer. I’ve been waiting for WP 1.5 to come out for some [...]