Irony and Self Reflection
From Bileblog: Were you so unloved as children that you’re so desperate to squeal out your emotions to every inanimate object you come across? Are you THAT insecure that you so desperately plead for...
View ArticleTo understand a language
Each language has its own personality, advantages, warts and inconsistencies. But each also seem to have an almost singular aspect that, if you really wish to be proficient in the language, you must...
View ArticleEnterprise worthy
Due to both my interests, as well as projects at work, I go thru phases of using various languages. Lately, it's been a C, PHP and Java cycle. It's amazing that of the 3, Java is the only one that...
View ArticleSpring Python
Lots of people like Spring. The only trouble is that a lot of people also don't like Java. They would love to be able to use Spring but don't want to make the leap from their favorite scripting...
View ArticleHow I Learned to Appreciate and Enjoy Groovy
As most people who know me know, I am a big fan and user of scripting languages. There are just so many places where they not only make sense, but are the only logical solution to the problem. My...
View ArticleShellshock
UPDATED: Sept 29, 2014 with current OSX Bash patchFirst of all, when this was first found, we were looking for a cool name... It was found.Anyway, as noted here...
View ArticleStarting on Telaen 2.x
After a somewhat long sabbatical, I'm energized about rebooting the Telaen Project.Partly, this is due to jaguNET migrating to using Dovecot for both POP3 and IMAP, and the realization that an upgraded...
View ArticleTelaen 2.0 Status
As noted in a previous blog post, I've started working on the 2.0 version of Telaen: a simple but powerful PHP-based Webmail system. Quite a bit has been changed, fixed and added under-the-covers,...
View ArticleGPL/Copyleft Hater
Occasionally, I've been called a GPL or Copyleft hater. Nothing could be further from the truth. I like and use all FOSS license types, whether permissive (eg: ALv2), weak copyleft (EPL) or strong...
View ArticleApache httpd Reverse Proxy
I've always considered the reverse proxy capability of Apache httpd as one of the real (hidden) gems of the web server. Of course, httpd has a lot of gems: multiple MPMs; a plethora of content creation...
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