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The Kember Identity Hash

By barneyb on May 8, 2009

A few days ago I saw a tweet from Steve Withington about the Kember Identity Hash.  I whipped up a searcher in Groovy, just for the hell of it, and have been running it for the past couple days on my office machine when I'm not using it.  Aside from the sheer pointlessness of the [...]

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What the Hell is Wrong With Me?

By barneyb on May 7, 2009

For the past month or so I've written more PHP than every other language combined.  That's including English.  Really.  Four separate WordPress projects (two standalone, two MU), one of which is a blogging platform for Mentor Graphics, and I'm up to my neck.  I'm a CFML developer by profession; I think I got off at [...]

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My Anal Retentiveness

By barneyb on April 24, 2009

I hate what stuff breaks.  I'll admit to punting on occasion, but I really do try to avoid that whenever possible.  While doing the FeedBurner stuff I went looking for site references, and found one on ColdFusion Bloggers that was quite interesting.  I'm one of the aggregated feeds, as you'd probably imagine, and have been [...]

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The Saga Continues

By barneyb on April 20, 2009

So my routing issues to my old box are still in force.  Sporadic, inconsistent, the whole mess.  Their NetOps team seems to think it's something on my box, but I don't see how it could be my box if certain routes always work, while the offending route fails sometimes.  I've got a single NIC, a [...]

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ƒµ©Ҝ You WordPress

By barneyb on April 17, 2009

In my WordPress MU migration, I made the delightful discovery that it will not serve on a 'www' subdomain.  Period.  It will answer, but it will never regard a 'www' subdomain as canonical, and always assume the bare domain is the right spot to serve from.
Fuck You, WordPress.
While I certainly agree that the behaviour of [...]

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Server Stories

By barneyb on April 16, 2009

Got a whole bunch of work done on my new box this evening.  Still lots to do, but well on my way.  Pluggable on-box backups for MySQL, pluggable S3 backups for arbitrary files, a WordPress MU skeleton, a few Tomcats, base HTTPD config, even a ColdFusion instance.  Unfortunately, the majority of my stuff runs on [...]

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Show Me Your Tool

By barneyb on April 6, 2009

If you read my blog regularly, chances are you write software and therefore can't, because your tools don't exist in the visual world.  They're just magic strings of minuscule magnets on a rapidly spinning chunk of plastic…
I took my chef's knife to the sharpener a few days ago.  Cost a whopping $4 to have him [...]

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TurboTax For the Win

By barneyb on April 5, 2009

Every year I'm blown away by TurboTax's web version.  It's one of the few applications that is really a pleasure to use, and while I can't say doing taxes is any sort of enjoyable, the sting is greatly removed.  So once again, cheers Intuit.   Keep it up, we appreciate it.

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I'll be at cf.objective()

By barneyb on March 31, 2009

In addition to speaking at CFUNITED later this summer, I just registered for cf.objective() this afternoon as an attendee.  This will be the first time I've gone to that conference, but I've heard very good things about it.  CFUNITED has grown into a bit of a behemoth, and while that carries a number of advantages, [...]

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xkcd Stuff

By barneyb on March 31, 2009

I just ordered some goodies from xkcd which should arive in a week or two: a couple t-shirts and a signed print of the Discovery Channel comic.  Unfortunately the store doesn't accept code (my favorite way to pay for zero-cost items), but I'll happily shell out a few bucks for all the entertainment if that's [...]

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