The Life and Times of Michael Shadle
“Lazy people are efficient” - my boss
2010
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The UK's got it right - government-collected data access for free
"A new website, data.gov.uk, will offer reams of public sector data, ranging from traffic statistics to crime figures, for private or commercial use. The target is to kickstart a…
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You are an idiot.
FUD FUD FUD FUD So there's more annoyance polluting the blogopshere, and it's about Facebook's privacy practices again. They keep your data, even if you delete it. Imagine that!…
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SPNEGO For nginx - a start, at least
I've been posting on the nginx mailing lists for a while that I've had a developer working on SPNEGO (Kerberos/GSSAPI/etc.) module for authentication for nginx. I never produced…
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The future of open source SQL databases (as I see it)
With the whole MySQL/Oracle issue going on, I find myself looking into the future and how I see it. As far as I'm concerned, MySQL will start to lose it's popularity as the…
2009
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Jérôme Loyet is a saint!
I'd like to announce that Jérôme Loyet stepped up this weekend and hacked up the first round of code to get dynamic process management going. Antony committed it (see below) and…
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PHP-FPM brought in to PHP core - interesting surprise
Read it here: http://news.php.net/php.internals/46277. First off, big thanks to Antony Dovgal. I've exchanged words with him in the past about PHP-FPM (and actually other PHP…
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WordPress 2.8.x - hiding those unwanted dashboard items
There's a completely new way now to hide dashboard items, and I finally think I found the easiest way to do it, after having to poke around looking for the right hooks. This…
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Transifex + Django + nginx on Ubuntu
You can probably also use this for just Django + nginx on Ubuntu too, it should work the same for any Django-based package, just change the Transifex-specific stuff (like…
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My recipe for ZFS at home
After spending a lot of time Googling around, reading forums, blogs and bug reports, etc. I was able to come up with the most amount of storage in the quietest case I could find…
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I believe I am in love with Mila Kunis
Every single thing I see with her in it warms my heart. How smoking was she in Forgetting Sarah Marshall? Now I'm watching some Family Guy documentary and she just looks amazing…
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"New" PHP-FPM instructions now posted
I just posted some quick steps on how to get started messing around with the new PHP-FPM. First, go signup to join the project at the Launchpad Project Page! Remember this is not…
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PHP 5.3.0 patch now considered stable
After a few weeks of people running it in production without any issues, I'm proud to say that PHP-FPM for PHP 5.3.0 can now drop it's "Release Candidate" title and is now in…
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"Tonight's project" ... just a couple weeks late
I'm finally getting around to posting all the pictures of this. It actually turned out pretty good, even though I was too impatient to wait to order some more fitting parts from…
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How to easily keep your Ubuntu packages in sync
Thanks to Monty, I've learned something that will save me a lot of headache in the future. I had a bunch of random scripts I wrote myself to try to keep things in sync, turns out…
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WordPress on Drizzle - beaten to the punch
Looks like Jeff Waugh actually beat me to it. Haven't seen the code... but he's done it and sounds like he's done a somewhat thorough job. Sadly I learned this from Brian's…
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Apple charging us for apps... more than once?
This is the kind of bullshit I expect from AT&T for using their network. Not from Apple. Apple: seriously? Come on. You've got a phone that can't stay on the shelves. You're…
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Don't forget the $args!
August 2010 UPDATE: Read here for new information! I just realized when trying to use the tryfiles shortcut that either the behavior has changed or the code I've used it for has…
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Porting WordPress to Drizzle - will I succeed?
Since I can't write C to save my life, I'm attempting to help out in other ways. This has been in the form of donating machine time, helping with the wiki, blog and being a…
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I love this frickin' toolkit
I have to give original props to Kevin for first letting me borrow it a couple times. He got it a long time ago but it appears Best Buy is still selling it. It's Dynex, which is…
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Finally using nginx's "try_files" directive
OLD: or: NEW: Why make life more complicated if you don't need to? Also thanks to Igor's patch you can have multiple of these, i.e.: etc. This is good, as Drupal, WordPress and…