Monthly Archives: November 2008

How to read a book about a software product

I have a stack of almost 20 books about various software products, including Emacs, OpenSSL, OpenSSH, Apache, PHP, etc etc, that still await reading. I’ve started most of them and never finished a single one. So in the interest of actually learning something, I’m trying a new method. Read 1-2 pages each day at the

wp-cron and mysterious editing errors in wordpress

We use several wordpress sites internally at work on a server with external web access. Ran into a very odd problem when using HTTP Authentication. By authenticating against the Windows Domain Controller at work, we don’t have to have users create another user name and password, which means things Just Work for the most part.

An Event Apart Chicago, 2008

Finally decided to just post my notes and I’ll edit bit by bit if I have time. UPDATE – Should give some praise as well.  AEA does the best job I’ve ever seen running a conference, and the content is spectacular.  Both last year and this year I’ve come away wanting to learn more about

Early morning thinking versus early morning doing

When I was in my twenties, I spent a few years meeing a some ‘gym friends’ starting at 5 in the morning to work out.  We’d meet 4-5 times a week, lift for an hour or so, and start the day off with your basic bs’ing and so forth.  We all agreed that we felt

Yahoo Search Advertising

With Yahoo having cut 1500 jobs, and now saying that Microsoft should buy them even though Yahoo just spit in Microsoft’s’ face recently (and I’m glad they did), what genius decided to buy radio ads to try and convince people to switch from Google to Yahoo search? Jeremy nails the real problem.