What the hell is this?
If you’ve come looking for my music site, so sorry, but that’s gone away. It seemed silly to have it up given the fact that I’m spending most of my time playing with computers these days, and rarely...
View ArticlePersistence
It seems that some of the success in coding comes from no more than persistence. A lot of what I do to get stuff to work takes trial and error. For example: I was trying to get something modified in...
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MuseScore, Slash Notation, Compound Meter, and Crappy Google Skills
As I’ve written about already in my first post, I’m also a musician, although my gigs are much less frequent these days. As such, having good charts available for musicians that I’ve never played with...
View ArticleGoogle App Engine: Google Cloud SQL Type Code Quirks
I’ve been working a lot recently on an internal project for a large software company, and we’re doing it in Google App Engine with Google Cloud SQL behind it. I like this combo, because it allows me to...
View ArticleUbuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal: in a VM
Don’t have a lot to say here, but it’s been a while since I’ve posted. Mostly, I tried installing and running the latest version of Ubuntu on my Mac in VirtualBox, and it sucked. Really slow...
View ArticleNode.js / MongoDB tutorial
I would highly recommend the Node.js / MongoDB tutorial for making a RESTful web service here. It nicely combines all of the required technologies, so you get to learn multiple things at once.
View ArticleREST calls in .NET (C#) over SSL (HTTPS)
Wow, it’s been a while… I’ve been testing the REST API for Salesforce’s Radian6. It’s very straightforward, but I spent HOURS trying to get it to work in .NET (C#). I thought that it made sense to...
View ArticleMusic dates
I’ve finally set up a page with my music dates, with the hope that people will stop asking me, “Why don’t you tell me when you’re playing out?!” Well, here it is.
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Installing SharePoint 2013 on Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview
I was all excited when I found out that you could try out Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview for a free 30 day trial on Windows Azure. So I proceeded to instantiate a virtual machine and also to attempt...
View ArticleInstalling SharePoint 2013 on Windows Server 2012 R2 *RTM*
I’ve gotten some nice responses in the comments over the last 2 months for my post on installing SharePoint 2013 on Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview. Fortunately, I’ve found that some things have...
View ArticleBest way to install LEMP (Linux, Nginx, mySQL, PHP) on Ubuntu
I spent way too long trying unsuccessfully to install a LEMP stack (Linux, Nginx, mySQL, PHP) on Ubuntu on EC2. The only tutorial that actually worked is this one:...
View ArticleMariaDB vs mySQL.
I’ve just moved this blog from a hosting provider to AWS EC2, and chose to use MariaDB instead of mySQL behind WordPress. MariaDB, a fork of mySQL itself, bills itself as completely compatible with...
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Installing LEMP (Linux, Nginx, MariaDB, PHP) for WordPress, with selective SSL.
UPDATE June 25th, 2014: Screw this entire post. The guys at rtCamp (see comments) found this post and turned me on to their wonderful EasyEngine (@easyengine), which installs the entire LEMP stack and...
View ArticleEasyEngine: lickety-split installation of WordPress on a LEMP stack, with...
So after I spent quite a large amount of time writing my last post, I was contacted in the comments by an enterprising marketing executive from rtCamp, recommending their free EasyEngine product, which...
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Video: SharePoint 2013 on Windows Server 2012 R2
So it seems that someone took my instructions on how to install SharePoint 2013 on Windows 2012R2 from here and here and made a YouTube video showing how to do it. I’m flattered, but it sure would...
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