Twain was right
Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. — Mark Twain
07/22/08
Yearly Archives: 2008
07/21/08
Capital One makes it right
So I’ve been freaking out the last week after getting a letter in the mail from Capital One stating that my final payment of $73 on my car loan was 30 days past due. This was a rather big surprise to me since my contract states they are to auto-deducted payment from my checking account and had done so for the previous 59 months. To make matters worse, I need to keep my credit report in tip top shape since we’ve been approved for a home loan and wanted to make an offer on a house this month. Continue reading
07/18/08
Cabernet Search Rewrite
So I’m in the process of ripping out Ferret and moving to Ultrasphinx for Cabernet’s search engine. Continue reading
07/16/08
07/13/08
Building a Community
Since good things come in threes, I decided to write about what I think it takes to build a successful team to run a community website. If you haven’t yet already, be sure to read Part One and Part Two first. Continue reading
07/7/08
I don’t completely suck after all
So I’ve spent a great deal of time over this 4th of July holiday working on Cabernet and I have to say, it’s beginning to look presentable. Continue reading
06/21/08
Obama: Bad law is good enough
This is a pretty disappointing speech given by Obama on the recent bill in the House which effectively grants immunity to TelCo’s who helped the Bush administration illegally spy on Americans.
UT Documents: Statement of Barack Obama supporting Hoyer FISA bill
Note to Obama: I fail to see how change happens by capitulating to the Bush administration.
06/20/08
3.3.2 is out the door
I released Tcpreplay 3.3.2 today. Almost all the bugs fixed and enhancements in this release were requested by users, so a big thanks to everyone who opened a ticket or emailed me their suggestions/bug reports. Continue reading
06/13/08
Merging CentOS install images
So I had an interesting problem. I wanted to install CentOS 4.1 on a box which had new enough hardware that you needed 4.4 or better. Getting this to work was an interesting problem, here’s how… Continue reading
06/8/08
Rails 2.1
I’ve successfully migrated Cabernet over to Rails 2.1. Not being a power-rails developer, there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot that has changed. Most of the API remains the same, and the one thing that’s changed (pagination) has been replaced with an easier to use module (will_paginate). Continue reading