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MileHiCon 45 Potential Participant Questionnaire (2013 Edition) 13 Jul 2013 | 08:03 am
Welcome to the 2013 Potential Participant Questionnaire for MileHiCon 45! Once again, online for everyone's convenience. read more
Several Gallons of Duplo 21 Apr 2013 | 04:02 am
My mother's in from out of town visiting, and we've been having a lot of fun. One of the most satisfactory things we've done together is what we did on Thursday, going to the first full day of the "Ju...
Photo of Orwell's house with Camera in Front is a Fake! 25 Mar 2013 | 09:43 pm
Yeah, this is amusing. Several folks in my livejournal feed post the same picture of the front of Orwell's house with a security camera mounted outside. Naturally, I immediately search online for the...
MySQL Fun: Converting ISBN10 codes to ISBN13 13 Mar 2013 | 10:03 pm
So, I'm currently working on a book-related project where I'm processing a bunch of book data, and for some reason the isbn13 values are missing, where the isbn10 values are still there. So, I went o...
Apache Solr: How I solved a problem with including DataImportHandler 7 Mar 2013 | 09:17 pm
So, I'm setting up a solr server (version 4.1), using Tomcat6, for development. Not a problem, until I try including the DataImportHandler, where everything just breaks. If you're not familiar with t...
i18n: Automatically filtering search by current language with Druapl 7 6 Mar 2013 | 08:14 am
The problem I was handled at work was pretty simple - we're putting together a multi-language site, with English and Spanish data. However, if you search on something that's part of a proper name whic...
s3fs Notes 22 Feb 2013 | 11:23 pm
These may not be useful to anyone else, but who knows. If you're getting the error "s3fs: could not determine how to establish security credentials", make sure the password file is named passwd-s3fs,...
So I can find this later: Six Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person 18 Dec 2012 | 12:29 am
I just read this, and I wish I could go back in time and shove it in my younger face: http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-you-better-per.... I just read through it and really enj...
A Google Maps v3 Control Gotcha 6 Dec 2012 | 11:01 pm
Here's something that just bit me: When you're using google maps api, you may find that the map controls don't show up, or worse, show up only partially. This is what happened to me. Happily, this se...
Beginning Magento 3 Dec 2012 | 01:12 am
A month and a half ago I switched to a new job at SpireMedia as the 'Director of PHP Development', which so far has largely meant 'Drupal Guru', a position that I'm quite enjoying. However, an intere...
