jtyper: The Making of a jQuery Plugin

If it’s worth building once, it’s worth repeating, right? And if I’m going to repeat it, why not take the extra step and keep it DRY by creating a customizable plugin? Here is the making of the jQuery plugin: jtyper. Continue reading

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Set KomodoIDE to use Kdiff3 for Mercurial

To change KomodoIDE to an external diff tool, the same diff tool that you have setup for Mercurial from the command line, you need to check a couple things in your hgrc file and then change one setting in Komodo. … Continue reading

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Hello Mr. Dot ssh/config!

Ah man, all these servers are driving me CRAZY! I got personal servers, client’s servers, company servers, AMIs, repositories and virtual servers out the waa-zoo.
What’s my username on this server? What’s the IP for that server? Oh yeah, this one requires a key, oh man, what key did I use when I set that up. Continue reading

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jQuery Conference Videos

Finally, the jQuery Boston 2010 videos are up! Continue reading

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PHP and Caching to Memory on /dev/shm – A Benchmarking Story

Memory is fast and Disk is Dangerous. That is what webserver admins have beaten in to their fingertips. It is a message that is reinforced many times.  After your third disk failure on a MySQL server with InnoDB tables larger … Continue reading

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