elockd
I’ve been working on an erlang port of my php locking daemon in erlang (which is a more appropriate language for this kind of thing.) And I have it all tricked out (ok partially tricked out but hey...
View Articleelockd [more] publicly available
I’d call this an 0.5 release. It’s now in the code repo that we at Automattic use to put out little open source tools. I’ve fixed several bugs with the code since the first time that I posted about it....
View ArticleTodays lesson: Check your assumptions
It’s easy to make assumptions about what we think is the problem with the speed of our code. Lets say you have a loop like so: foreach( $big_list_of_things as $thing ) { $res1 = somefunc1( $thing );...
View ArticleAdding a second authentication factor to WordPress
UPDATE: I’ve added the plugin to the WordPress.org repository. If it gathers interest/attention then I may develop it further and add more stuff like SMS gateway support, configuration, etc… See:...
View ArticleErlang + HTML5 + IRC = pretty much awesome
as someone who uses IRC every day for work… I find this to be a very cool idea, even though I can’t really trust sending my traffic through a 3rd party. IRCCloud.com
View ArticleHandlerSocket for MySQL Interpreted PHP client
In case anyone is looking for a SocketHandler client written in PHP to do some light testing with, I’ve written one and made it available
View ArticleAirPort ♡ Free IPV6 From TunnelBroker.net
After signing up for a (free) account on tunnelbroker.net and creating a (free) tunnel with my ipv4 address as the endpoint I was able to easily configure my AirPort Extreme. View your tunnel, then...
View ArticleDebian, ProFTPD, FTPS, TLS, SSL, and SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol
Recently I needed to test against an FTPS server. No big deal, I thought to myself, I’ll just set one up real quick. Boy did I end up having a hard time with that. Not because the task was actually...
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