The NY Times now has ads in their RSS feeds. When did this happen? I’m off to research Pheedo who does the ads.
Author: barce
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Helping People Find Jobs
At Codebelay we work with a number of recruiters who have helped secure jobs for a lot of our friends. Right now there are two recruiters who will loyally work for you in your corner.
If you have expertise with Javascript, especially jquery, or SQL Server, or PHP, these are the folks to talk to.
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2008 Favorites
These things were just my absolute favorite in 2008.
- Github – Do you want to see nice graphs about your current coding project? Do you want to invite friends to code with you? As a consultant, there wasn’t a major client that I didn’t use Github for this year.
- The iPhone 3G – Thank you, thank you, Michael Parekh for saying that it’s the computer of the future and that you shouldn’t be developing for the web without it in mind.
- Grokking what Gearman is about.
- The Blogger.com SxSW gloves schwag. Ya, it was warm and rainy when Blogger.com passed these out but it was so good in the fall and winter!
- Katy Perry’s song “Hot N Cold”
What were your favorites of 2008?
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Site Diversity FTW
If it’s the thought that counts, think about how site diversification has helped out the Gawker Media and Nick Denton these past 6 months.
This set of graphs says it all:
Happy Holidays!
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Another Hackday Update: PHP unserialize doesn’t quite do it
Wow, I had to use someone’s custom unserialize code because PHP’s unserialize doesn’t quite work multi-byte strings. 🙁 Time wasted: 3 hours.
Here’s the function:
function mb_unserialize($serial_str) {
$out = preg_replace(‘!s:(\d+):”(.*?)”;!se’, ‘”s:”.strlen(“$2″).”:\”$2\”;”‘, $serial_str);
return unserialize($out);
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Update on the WordPress Dev2Live Hackday
I know the bare minimum of what has to change in a WordPress install. Code that gets me the tables, and shows me the serializeable data in WordPress’ option settings is done.
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A WordPress Hackday
Today, I’m going to explore looking for a solution for staging WordPress from a development environment to a production one. I’ll be posting throughout the day as “hacks” become available.
The main issue is changing serialized dev data into production data.
I’ll be in irc.freenode.net #wpdev2live .
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Installing fcgi on IIS 6.0 with PHP 5.2.8
- Install MySQL
- Download PHP 5.2.8 win32 installer
- Install PHP 5.2.8
Choose IIS FastCGI 
Be sure to install extensions needed for WordPress Select these extensions:
GD2
Gettext
Multi-Byte String
Mimetypec
MySQL
MySQLi
PDO/MySQL
SQLite (in case MySQL fails)
XML-RPC (WordPress needs this)Be sure to install Pear and the PHP Manual, too.
Next step: Install FastCGI with the installer.
For more info check out this page
Also check out info how to install FastCGI on IIS 6.0.
Install eAccelerator.
My php.ini is below:
[PHP]
cgi.force_redirect=0
extension_dir=”C:\Program Files\PHP\ext”
[PHP_GD2]
extension=php_gd2.dll
[PHP_GETTEXT]
extension=php_gettext.dll
[PHP_MBSTRING]
extension=php_mbstring.dll
[PHP_MIME_MAGIC]
extension=php_mime_magic.dll
[PHP_MYSQL]
extension=php_mysql.dll
[PHP_MYSQLI]
extension=php_mysqli.dll
[PHP_PDO]
extension=php_pdo.dll
[PHP_PDO_MYSQL]
extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll
[PHP_SQLITE]
extension=php_sqlite.dll
[PHP_XMLRPC]
extension=php_xmlrpc.dll;eAccelerator
extension=”eAccelerator.dll”
eaccelerator.shm_size=”150″
eaccelerator.cache_dir=”C:\cache”
eaccelerator.enable=”1″
eaccelerator.optimizer=”1″
eaccelerator.check_mtime=”1″
eaccelerator.debug=”0″
eaccelerator.filter=””
eaccelerator.shm_max=”0″
eaccelerator.shm_ttl=”3600″
eaccelerator.shm_prune_period=”1800″
eaccelerator.shm_only=”1″
eaccelerator.compress=”0″
eaccelerator.compress_level=”9″
eaccelerator.keys = “shm_only”
eaccelerator.sessions = “shm_only”
eaccelerator.content = “shm_only”My fcgiext.ini in %WINDOWS%/system32/inetsrv is below:
[Types]
php=C:\PROGRA~1\PHP\php-cgi.exe[C:\PROGRA~1\PHP\php-cgi.exe]
QueueLength=999
MaxInstances=20
InstanceMaxRequests=500
IdleTimeout=200
RequestTimeout=60The performance you get on a 2GhZ processor with 1GiB of RAM is decent:
Transactions: 662 hits Availability: 100.00 % Elapsed time: 123.15 secs Data transferred: 21.96 MB Response time: 8.29 secs Transaction rate: 5.38 trans/sec Throughput: 0.18 MB/sec Concurrency: 44.55 Successful transactions: 662 Failed transactions: 0 Longest transaction: 13.25 Shortest transaction: 4.23
5.38 transactions per second is 464832 hits per day.
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Apps That Seem to Crash WoW on OS X 10.5.5
I wrote this quick script to take care of apps that seem to Crash OS X 10.5.5 on my Macbook Pro. I have just 1GiB of RAM instead of the recommended 2GiB, but ever since killing the processes in the script below, I haven’t had a crash.
The bad guys are:
- Google Updater
- Cross Over
- HPEventHandler
- HP IO Classic Proxy
- HP IO Classic Proxy 2
I killed privoxy in my script below just to get more memory to run Warcraft.
#!/bin/bashC1=`ps ax | grep Cross | grep -v grep | cut -c3-6`
echo “C1: $C1”
kill -9 $C1
C1=`ps ax | grep “Google Updater” | grep -v grep | cut -c3-6`
echo “C1: $C1”
kill -9 $C1
C1=`ps ax | grep “HPEventHandler” | grep -v grep | cut -c3-6`
echo “C1: $C1”
kill -9 $C1
C1=`ps ax | grep “HP IO Classic Proxy 2” | grep -v grep | cut -c3-6`
echo “C1: $C1”
kill -9 $C1
C1=`ps ax | grep “HP IO Classic Proxy \-” | grep -v grep | cut -c3-6`
echo “C1: $C1”
kill -9 $C1
C1=`ps ax | grep “privoxy” | grep -v grep | cut -c3-6`
echo “C1: $C1”
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What I Whitelist in my Spam Filter
This is a list of domains that I have to whitelist because my spam filter either at the ISP end or on my laptop thinks you are a spammer.
Notable on this list are:
- facebookmail.com
- Mavericks — the surfer email list. wtf?
- match.com — no, it’s not okay to look. 😉
I really think pbwiki.com doesn’t belong on this list. I also don’t think levi.com belongs on this list, so it’s really interesting what gets filtered as spam and what doesn’t.
What strategies do you use so that your emails don’t end up in the spam box?
What do you whitelist but think you shouldn’t have to?