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Almost 2 years ago, I created the Cryptable behavior, documented here. It worked well, and served it’s purpose, but I missed a feature that I soon wished I’d added. So, today, I was working on a new project, and I decided it was time to fix the behavior to add the ( Read more... )

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Now that I’ve had a day or so to recover, I’m going to tell you about what I just spent 2-3 weeks trying to resolve. By way of explanation, our main product at work is a CakePHP based CMS application. It has a lot of neat features, including the ability for users to ( Read more... )

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I realize this update is long overdue, but I’ve been so busy I haven’t been thinking about posting on my blog. I apologize for that, and I’ll try (again) to post more frequent updates. Meanwhile, I thought I’d talk about something that has been taking up some of my time ( Read more... )

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I recently had the need to make sure that files that were pushed to a git repository had a required string in them. It took a few hours, but here’s what I came up with to do it:

#!/bin/sh   refname="$1" oldrev="$2" newrev="$3"   paths="path/in/repo/" required=" ( Read more... )

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As anyone who knows me probably realizes (because I talk about it incessantly) it’s NaNoWriMo time again. Which means I’m revamping my wordwar tool for this year. This time, I’m giving it a complete overhaul. In the process, I looked at how I was using the API provided ( Read more... )

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One problem a lot of people have with sending email from PHP in general is properly setting the envelope sender of the message, so that it’s correct in all the headers. This is important because it affects spam filtering rather drastically. Also, some ISPs and other ( Read more... )

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I recently needed to update a cron job written for CakePHP to make it multi-threaded, so that a job that would take months otherwise could finish in a reasonable amount of time. I originally planned to simply use pcntl_fork() to do this, but upon reading the comments on ( Read more... )

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It’s the time of year that many people turn their thoughts to patriotism, me included. I love my country. Always have. I’m damn proud to be an American, and I would never want to give that up. But this year, I have some perspectives I haven’t had before.

First, I have ( Read more... )

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Man, life has been too busy to keep this as up to date as I really want to! Sorry for that, but here’s another update for everyone.

First, since my last post, I have also passed my Extra class ham radio license test, and received my vanity callsign. I’m now N7TOX, which ( Read more... )

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A few things to cover in this update, but I’ll keep it short, and try to have something more substantial for later this week.

First, I’ve hit 25% of my weight loss goal! As of this morning, I’ve lost 25.1 pounds. My trend weight is at 283.9, and heading down at a very ( Read more... )