Code and Whatnot

Limited only by the capabilities of the OnForce API, the "Crisscott’s" client (not an OnForce product) harnesses the cross-platform prowess of GTK and the ease-of-use of PHP in a client he says took only a few hours to program. Scott Mattocks is the documenter of PHP-GTK, and the author of the authoritative volume on […]

Usually the higher-ups do the hiring at OnForce, but today the programmers made a hire: Rat Nerd. Rat Nerd’s contribution will be to occupy this desk: until we get another programmer in here. Otherwise, we fear, an overzealous office manager might see the unused desk and remove it from the room, creating […]

WooHoo!. If only it was driving traffic to this blog…
Download here.

UPDATE: I am now hosting the source code for this project on this blog.
Today OnForce was kind enough to release the server monitor tools I created in April and May. The newly LGPL-ed code is available for download, with basic README documentation included with the source. We haven’t exposed the subversion repository yet, […]

One day Rhapsody stopped working in Ubuntu on my work machine. It didn’t stop working on my home Ubuntu machine, which runs the same version. I thought something I did installing non-packaged software like the JRE and Flash caused it to stop working. At the time I couldn’t find any information by […]

This weekend, I helped my brother install an Envirolet Low Water Toilet. Power-tripping city regulators denied his request to hook up his garage building to the city sewer system, and, since he needed a toilet in there, he opted for what I like to call the “composting shitter”.
My brother taught me how to “weld” […]

Earlier this week I got a 13 minute query down to about 6 seconds by tweaking the indexing of two tables. Other slow queries benefitted as well, though not to the same magnitude. Not only is the query a massive JOIN on some big tables (over 200,000 records), but the query is built […]