Code and Whatnot

I hardly even know what anti-aliasing is. But the anti-aliasing in Ubuntu 6.10, unless I’ve gone mad, is really nice. There is some intangible quality in the text that makes everything really easy to read.
Firefox 2 (which comes with the upgrade) is also awesome. I always wanted little X’s on […]

The New York Times, aptly on my father’s birthday, had an article highlighting the so-called “anti-anti-clutter” movement. The anti-anti-clutter movement would like you to know that organization equipment is another form of mess. They would like you to know that people with messy desks and homes are intelligent and creative, are better parents, […]

I bet you always wanted to know about me. I figured most of my traffic comes from searches, so I’d better put up a little information about the source of all this content.

Here I finally went and got the command to upgrade to Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft. Without paying much attention to Ubuntu news, I was assuming that at one point my 6.06 Dapper Drake would eventually automatically upgrade itself. Canonical, it seems, has designated 6.06 a ‘Long Term Support’ release, and as such […]

Last updated 01-May-2007
The basics
Occupation: Software developer/tech lead
Employer: HUGE, Inc.
Specialties: PHP, MySQL, *nix, Bash, regular expressions
Hook: More than just a programmer, I am known as an effective communicator with and between engineers and management, a source of fresh product ideas, and a great person to tackle new problems.
Biographical details & trivia
Lives: Los Angeles, CA
Hometown: Hopatcong, NJ
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I’m working on revamping PDF generation. At the moment, we’re switching to PDFlib from FPDF. Since PDFlib is licensed on a per-server basis, we’re going to have just one dedicated PDF server for the time being. I’m sending requests to the PDFlib backend using HTTP post, and I found the information I […]