A few Sundays ago something amazing happened. Something like no other. It was during the hours of 2nd Shift in the darkened corner we call home, when a new phrase was coined, or at least a phrase was revisited as if it were new. The Bone of Justice came to …
That’s right. It either beat or came very close to my all-time high score in Ms. Pac-Man. Since I can’t remember my old record, I going to assume I broke it. It was not a perfect game but it lasted a good while and I ended up with a final …
I had been suspecting something was up for some time, but it appears as though most of the latest comments on the shoutbox were not from legitimate sources. It was basically an automated bot shooting out canned repsonses by directly sending post variables right to my index page. This has …
Yesterday was my 1 year anniversary at Rackspace are at least there-abouts. Hard to believe it has been a year already, but it has all be awesome and fun. Rackspace is quite possibly the best job I could ever have. I get to help people, I get to work in …
I finally finished, more or less, the user preferences section of the website. As you might be able to tell, the entire user management has been modularized. Seemed like a good idea to do and is a general trend I am moving towards. Not only does it make things easier …
I originally had my development site behind a private interface but I have recently removed this since it makes certain types of testing easier. So for those curious, you are more than welcome to check out the dev site at http://dev.moocowproductions.org/. Bear in mind that the two sites use completely …
I have been using the Smarty Template Engine for some time now. It really does help separate code from design and helps establish the MVC idea of object-oriented programming. I have been wanting to try to implement caching for some time and have finally sort of found a way to …
Well, another Father’s Day came and went. I hadn’t thought about it but if you include our step-dads, Corey and I have 4 fathers! Of course, they were all worth it. We didn’t splurge too much in this case but I hope they enjoyed what we did get. Mostly gift …
It seems like just when you buy something new, something else breaks. That’s exactly what happened to my Emermax 350W power supply powering my music box. It blew a week or so after I replaced my loud, annoying, power supply in my server, with a nice quiet 400W Antec TruePower. …