February 2012
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January 2012
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There’s no ‘i’ in queeet, ese.
– Señor Clay Loveless
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December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
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August 2011
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Fundraising Lessons from The Gambler
You got to know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em, Know when to walk away and know when to run.
-“The Gambler” by Kenny Rogers
When raising money for a new business, there are times when you find people that you genuinely like. You’d hang out with them, drink beers with them, and certainly go into the trenches with them.
This is all good. It feels great....
July 2011
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SSL, php-fpm and nginx
Like many switching to the nginx/php-fpm combo, I ran into a situation with some PHP scripts that relied on $_SERVER[“HTTPS”] having a value of ‘on’. As of nginx 1.0.4, this isn’t provided out of the box. Of course, the rest of the $_SERVER[“SSL_*”] values that are present under Apache and mod_php (or php-fpm) aren’t available either.
The closest...
June 2011
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Getting PEAR2 Pyrus Running
I had a heck of a time getting PEAR2’s pyrus.phar 2.0.0a3 running. I downloaded pyrus.phar, ran ‘php pyrus.phar list-packages’ and got nothing.
Turns out the problem was having Suhosin installed as well. Once I added:
suhosin.executor.include.whitelist=”phar”
… to my php.ini directives, ‘php pyrus.phar list-packages’ gave me a list of...
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You should think of your investors as the Honey Badger. They just want a launch....
– The Wise Spouse
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RESTful Routing, LocationMatch, ForceType and...
For years I’ve been seeing articles about RESTful routing, and watching developers contort their code including route aware this and that. All these gyrations come with a performance penalty, not to mention a code maintenance cost. (More lines to maintain = more pain in the ass.)
There are a few brave souls who’ve bucked this trend and gone with the original tools designed for this...
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AWS CloudFront Invalidation Quickie
Got something up on AWS CloudFront that’s not what it’s supposed to be? Use this quickie script to zap those mistakes. No external libraries required, no fancy and overly complex signature routines. Just a simple, quick script that’s not even worth a repo. Copy, paste, tweak, zap, and exhale.
Excessive use of this script may run up a tab at Amazon.
No additional charge for...
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When the guy you’re trying to land as an investor starts thinking about...
– Jane Doe, a founder’s wife
Keep It Down
Sometimes being the founder of an early stage startup boils down to a single mantra: “not going to puke right now!”
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May 2011
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A master at the art of living makes no distinction between his work and his...
– Wilfred A. Peterson (via brycedotvc) (via bryc3)
April 2011
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Keep your car relatively clean. You never know when you might wind up giving a...
PlayStation Network Credit Card Data Comprimised,... →
parislemon:
Yesterday, I noted the Playstation Network was an “awful black eye” for Sony — one of the worst tech meltdowns I can remember seeing.
Scratch that.
This is a massive fucking nightmare now. This will go down in infamy. It will be a cautionary tale in the tech industry told for years to come.
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