Archive for March, 2011

  • While at the Magento Imag­ine con­fer­ence a cou­ple weeks ago I learned that the entire Magento site and its demo sites all run on nginx instead of Apache. I was aware of that...

    Switching your Magento development environment from Apache to nginx

    While at the Magento Imag­ine con­fer­ence a cou­ple weeks ago I learned that the entire Magento site and its demo sites all run on nginx instead of Apache. I was aware of that...

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  • I have read Javascript: The Good Parts* cover to cover mul­ti­ple times. ( Well OK lately, its been BOF to EOF on my iPad ) When some­one is as res­olute...

    Javascript Master Class

    I have read Javascript: The Good Parts* cover to cover mul­ti­ple times. ( Well OK lately, its been BOF to EOF on my iPad ) When some­one is as res­olute...

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  • Part of being a full time soft­ware con­sul­tant is deal­ing with the down­time. When you spe­cial­ize in such a spe­cific niche as I do, you are bound to have spells where there is...

    Winter downtime

    Part of being a full time soft­ware con­sul­tant is deal­ing with the down­time. When you spe­cial­ize in such a spe­cific niche as I do, you are bound to have spells where there is...

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  • *nix has always been my oper­at­ing sys­tem of choice. It really was what I started com­put­ing on at the Uni­ver­sity of Water­loo and con­se­quently has left a last­ing impres­sion on me. I am...

    My (Dramatized) return to Linux

    *nix has always been my oper­at­ing sys­tem of choice. It really was what I started com­put­ing on at the Uni­ver­sity of Water­loo and con­se­quently has left a last­ing impres­sion on me. I am...

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