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November 2009

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  What Thrashed Around In Chris’ Brain This Past Weekend

  11.23.09 | Permalink | Comments Off

  (The blog experiment continues: 1 post every weekday in November and I think I only skipped one, but made up for it with a Saturday post) Node.js is something I want to use, but I do not know what for For those who don’t know, Node is a “toolkit for writing extremely high performance non-blocking [...]

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  Cleaning Up The Dev Environment

  11.20.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Once I got a production push out of the way at work, I set about recreating my PHP development environment. Currently I was running PHP 5.3.0 with Apache2 and Postgresql 8.4, all installed via MacPorts. Why the time for a change? Two reasons. The first one is my desire to constantly tinker and tweak my [...]

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  The Programming Environment of the Future

  11.19.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  While working away I was listening (okay, and peeking once in a while) at the live stream from the announcement from Google about Chrome OS, an operating system they’ve been working on. From what I can tell, it’s going to be some stripped-down version of Linux with a window manager that runs one thing: the [...]

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  Using Django As An Admin Area for a PHP Project, Part 1

  11.18.09 | Permalink | Comments Off

  My work project needed an admin area for doing things like changing the key for a league, or changing the email address for someone's account. You know, typical admin stuff. In the past I had been *gasp* editing SQL by hand via pgAdmin (and my favourite trick of creating an SSH tunnel to the server [...]

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  What’s In Chris’ Brain Today

  11.17.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  She Who Must Be Obeyed asked me what I wanted for Christmas, so I'm going to ask for a copy of "Code Generation In Action" along with some other programming books. Make your suggestions in the comments if you please (and feel free to buy me a copy of that Code Generation book just like [...]

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Facebook should've be written in unicornSchemaLang, because everyone *knows* that PHP is no good for anything, right?

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