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Another Talk Like A Pirate Day

over 5 years ago by Jon Maddox on Jon's Thoughts On Everything.
Well another Talk Like a Pirate day is here. Has it jumped the shark? Is its played out? Do we need to move on to Talk Like a (Zombie¦Ninja¦Gnome...

Wildlife Crusader Goes Out WIth His Boots On

over 5 years ago by Jon Maddox on Jon's Thoughts On Everything.
There’s not much to say that hasn’t been said, except that the world has lost a man of true passion. We could use a few more like him....

No More Posts About Programming

almost 6 years ago by Jon Maddox on Jon's Thoughts On Everything.
I’ve found myself posting a lot of development based content here. Since I don’t plan on stopping that any time soon, I thought it’d be...

Et Tu, Brute?

almost 6 years ago by Jon Maddox on Jon's Thoughts On Everything.
“It has come to our attention that some people want to program in things other than Java.” -Sun Computational Theologist Gilad Bracha...

Start and Stop All Your Mongrel_Cluster Processes

over 5 years ago by Jon Maddox on Simplistic Complexity - Home.
So, Its possible to use mongrel cluster in a shared environment. I’ve shown that. But what about stopping and starting all these processes? No one...

quicktime_helper Plugin

over 5 years ago by Jon Maddox on Simplistic Complexity - Home.
Plugin #2. I built another helper to fulfill my need to embed Quicktime videos. Like the DRY developer I try to be, I decided I’d make a nice little...

aim_status_helper Plugin

over 5 years ago by Jon Maddox on Simplistic Complexity - Home.
For a project I’m working on, I needed to display a user’s AIM status. I thought it might be useful, so I extracted it to a plugin. It&...

Clustered Mongrel In A Shared Environment

almost 6 years ago by Jon Maddox on Simplistic Complexity - Home.
Working at a marketing firm, a lot of our client work doesn’t end up as mission critical, high bandwidth sites. We end up pushing out projects that...

Automated PHP Deployment With Capistrano

almost 6 years ago by Jon Maddox on Simplistic Complexity - Home.
Sure, I’d like to spend my days and nights writing ruby and cap deploy ing it to success, but I have to face the facts. I Still Have PHP Apps...

Here We Go Again

almost 6 years ago by Jon Maddox on Simplistic Complexity - Home.
In the interest of abstracting all of the dev related posts from my normal blog, I’ve started another one. It was getting a bit cluttered over there...