Published: April 08, 2014
For years, I have prided myself on knowing how to set up a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python) server in linux OSes based on Debian, RedHat, and SuSE. Today, I needed to set up an internal-use survey server using LimeSurvey. I decided to build as modern of a server as possible using CentOS, nginx, MySQL, and PHP 5.5 with Zendā¦
Read more...Published: April 07, 2014
After studying Dart for a month, I wondered which problems Dart was attempting to resolve. I then realized that my knowledge of JavaScript was not good enough to know why Google had created Dart as a JavaScript alternative. As much as I enjoyed Dart, I decided to dive back in to JavaScript with a fresh look. A programmer I respect,ā¦
Read more...Published: March 03, 2014
I am currently feeling a bit of push and pull between at least two different decisions. I have a āwhen you have time for itā project that I am thinking of building in Laravel. I am also interested in learning more about the Dart language with Dartās implementation of Angular.js. Ach! Decisions, decisions. For my study of Laravel, I amā¦
Read more...Published: February 20, 2014
This evening, I attended the Dart Flight School at the Google Fiber Space in Kansas City. Dart Flight School is a global event occurring throughout February. I treated this event as an introduction to the Dart programming language. I walked in to the event knowing only that Dart was created by Google to be like javascript. What I learned isā¦
Read more...Published: February 14, 2014
Background I was recently tasked with programming a connecty-bit between a Google Drive Form and our instance of SolarWinds Web Help Desk. Both are great products. Both offer fabulous APIs. My overall plan was to periodically grab all information from the default worksheet of the Google Drive Form, translate it to JSON, and submit it to Web Help Desk toā¦
Read more...Published: October 01, 2011
On page 7 of Learning Python (4th ed), Mark Lutz briefly discusses the speed differences between Python and compiled languages like C++. I was curious as to how much slower an interpreted language is than a compiled language. To illustrate this, I whipped up a quick and simple program that exercises the CPU so I can see the difference āā¦
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