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Cleaning House
Over on Facebook a few days ago I commented about a personal "new year" project of reorganizing (first the home…
PHP, Nagios and MySQL Replication
Overview MySQL replication is a handy way to distribue database processes across several servers. For example, a simple "master-slave"…
WWDC 2012 Predictions
Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference starts this week, which means it is time for everyone under the sun to make predictions…
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It's a bit weird to be reading about Red Hat posting $1 billion in revenue in a year for the…
Chicago Open Data at Work
A few years ago Blagica Bottigliero started the website Gals' Guide as an online forum for young women moving out…
The Power of mod_proxy
The Power of mod_proxy: An Introduction to Proxy Servers and Load Balancers with Apache HTTP Server Presentations slides from…
Adding SQL Server Support in PHP on Linux
Back in July I outlined a method for establishing a SSH tunnel between Linux and Windows machines. The goal of…
Accessing Chicago, Cook and Illinois Open Data via PHP
In Accessing the CTA's API with PHP I outlined a class file I created1 for querying the Chicago Transit Authority's…
Accessing the CTA's API with PHP
Overview Last month the City of Chicago arranged for a Open Data Hackaton in which a collection of programmers gathered…

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