I recently noticed my local magento install was running quite slow in the admin. After banging my head against the wall looking at VM settings, I finally remembered that Magento… Read more »

Years ago I wrote about Rackspace Cloud offering me a good server platform at a reasonable cost. While I still have a few servers living there, I am pleased to… Read more »

I had a server that was running Red Hat that threw an error of: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Zend_Cache_Exception’ with message ‘cache_dir ” is not writable The directory it… Read more »

So, I setup a new e-mail account on Office 365.  For two reasons: 1. I like using Outlook and a hosted Exchange instance lets me leverage way more Outlook features… Read more »

I had to flush the cache on a Drupal 7 site and couldn’t get to the admin.  So, I needed to flush the cache straight on the database layer. Luckily… Read more »

I was working on a site and needed to have a side nav stick to the top once the header was scrolled off the screen.  Positioning it is easy enough… Read more »

So, I’m a noob when it comes to linux bash stuff, but I had a situation where I needed to strip the parenthesses out of a bunch of files provided… Read more »

So, I did a quick project for a friend, Matt Schnell Design. He’s the Creative Director for Irish Titan and does really good web designer in Minneapolis. The site is… Read more »

Short version: Make sure you don’t name your controllers and models the same when working with Codeigniter. Probably good practice with any programming, but I just lost 15min. trying to… Read more »

By now, everyone knows what Google AdSense is.  It’s those little ads a lot of people, including me as of today, put on their site in the hopes that people… Read more »