So I wanted to quickly share this tip. It's too long for a Twitter status update, but it's short. I'm sure most of you are well aware of GitHub's service hooks, yes? Well, the most basic one is the WebHook. This basically makes an HTT...

I figured I would share my typical web application server setup while I've recently been on the subject of hosting. This is my mission-critical, scalable, redundant, (did I miss anything?) setup. You'll need 5 servers, along with a cl...

So I've been giving some PaaS services a try. To be completely fair I don't want to mention which at this time. I may revisit others to get a more comprehensive comparison but I've been turned off for now. I've been hosting my smal...

So I noticed on a recent job that my secondary database wasn't being used by my code. I was confused because in the past it always did. Though it was with the "slaveOk" setting and I know that things changed since then in the PHP driver...

One thing that's been difficult to understand throughout my research is "why" certain content ends up viral. What's so great about some poor girl burning her hair? Or any of the music videos or sappy commercials with horses? Sometim...