The Quick and Dirty Guide to a Successful Website Deployment – Part 1: Research

Author: gregg | 05 June 2010 | View Comments
Categories: Software

So, you’ve been charged with the responsibility of giving your company website a facelift. Your logo looks as though it was designed by a six year-old, the overall design screams, “1998,” and the blinking text effects are starting to cause problems with your epileptic readers. Let’s be honest. You’ve got a lot of work ahead [...]

Databases and backups

Author: dp | 06 May 2010 | View Comments
Categories: Servers

Yesterday, I managed to delete the primary

udev debugging toolbox « Web 0.2

Author: dp | 12 April 2010 | View Comments
Categories: Servers

This is a great read about working with udev, specifically, getting things working after you’ve written your rules, and they still don’t work. Remember that udev has a different $PATH than everything else, so qualify your paths to mount, etc.

gms8994′s benchmark at master – GitHub

Author: dp | 11 January 2010 | View Comments
Categories: Projects, Servers

I’ve recently been posting my benchmark scripts to github.  You can find them here: 

Codeblocked: An Adventure in Slow Code

Author: dp | 16 December 2009 | View Comments
Categories: Uncategorized

It’s amazing how much content a company can add in a year, especially when that company writes articles for it’s living. A year and a half ago, I wrote this code against Comparison Between Solr And Sphinx Search Servers (Solr Vs Sphinx – Fight!) (beerpla.net)

Cleaning up bad data in an SQL database

Author: dp | 02 June 2009 | View Comments
Categories: Uncategorized

Recently, I needed to find all of the data in a table that was being used for HTML output, that had non-printable characters. The following SQL statement should do that for you: select id, name from table_name where name not regexp ‘^[a-zA-Z0-9_ ,&;\/<>(²):%*#?$|!+.\"\'-]+$; This code is MySQL specific, but should be applicable anywhere, really.

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