Fork a Process in PHP
10 Aug 2011
The other day I ran into a need to "fork" a process in a web app. Basically I needed to trigger a long-running process but immediately show the user a screen that said "running". I used a version of the following.
Nodejs File Commands - 1 Minute Tutorial
25 Sep 2010
Check out my article on Nodejs file commands over at utahjs.com, the JavaScript Users Group of Utah.
Wake Up! Do You Know Encryption?
26 Mar 2010
I'm surprised by how many developers aren't familiar with encryption. Many say to me that encryption is md5 and sha1.
Applications often need one-way encryption and two-way encryption. There are also public/private key encryption schemes like pgp which are not as commonly used in web applications.
Count Lines of Code
16 Sep 2009
Count number of lines of code in bash:
Windows vs. Linux (Again)
23 Aug 2009
I use Linux on my home computer and Windows on my work computer. Sometimes I hate to admit it, but there are a lot of good things about Windows. By windows I mean WinXP and Win7. As for Linux, I particularly mean Ubuntu 9.04.
Google Plays Poker
16 Jul 2009
I Love You, Sun
6 Jul 2009
I installed Sun's VirtualBox 3.0 last week. I'm in love.
As of last week, I have no dual boot. Yay! No more juggling partitions. No more fiddling with NTFS from Linux or EXT3/4 from Windows. No more waiting for full restarts. I'm always in Ubuntu and run Windows 7 on top. It is great for a few programs my wife uses that don't work under wine.
Ubuntu on the Desktop, Windows in the Recycle Bin
29 Aug 2008
I recently got a nasty trojan virus on my home computer. It was very clear to me that it was time to try Linux again on the desktop.
So I installed Ubuntu 8 and have been very impressed. The following is a list of things that were often troublesome in previous versions but are very easy in Ubuntu 8.
I have tried Fedora Core 4, Ubuntu 5, 6, and 7 and Mepis 5 on my home computer. Each had limitations for me or my wife that caused us to revert to Windows XP. I'm a fairly novice Linux user, but I do use the Linux command line every day when working with web servers as a web developer.
OSX UI Philosophy
4 Jun 2008
Apple sure does have a unique philosophy of minimalism for their UIs. I used a Mac today for about 3 hours to do some simple Photoshop stuff at work. I was surprised by some of their UI design choices that diverge so much with Windows and Linux. Here are my thoughts.
I definitely enjoy the Windows/Linux utilitarian approach over OSX's simplicy approach. I was particularly irked when there was no easy way to rake through a folder of 64 images to find out which 6 were 180x20 instead of 180x19.