Cal Evans wrote a straightforward and excellent tutorial on how to to use Zend_Auth and its OpenID adapter to authenticate users today. I was not only impressed by the tutorial itself, and I liked how he had code up front and so well commented, but also by how easy it was to implement the code […]
This is primarily a reminder for myself, since I have a hard time finding this when I need it. Use this to restrict access to a site by IP address and display a friendly message to users when doing an upgrade or maintenance. <LIMIT GET POST >Order Deny,AllowDeny from AllAllow from 192.168.0.1</LIMIT>ErrorDocument 403 "Site Upgrades,
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You learn something new everyday. On SoccerBlogs.net, I’ve always tracked click thrus to gauge which posts represent active stories. Previously, I used to redirect clicks through my own url and then redirect to the final destination. This was a little slower for users, and I think its not super kosher from google’s point of view.
Oh yeah baby – check out who’s on the first page of google when you search for "NPR Fair Game"!
I’ve updated SoccerBlogs, which has been requriing some of my attention for a while now. The obvious change is a much better design, at least as far as my skills go. I also changed how I was linking to external posts and now use a simple ajax request to count click-thrus, instead of more cumbersome,
Once I became a US Citizen, I in now way missed having to deal with the Immigration and Naturalization Service, or whatever it is called now that its in the Department of Homeland Security. In my mind, its still the paragon of bearocratic time wasting and horrendous customer service, order-of-magnitude worse than dealing with the
On the way home today, listening to NPR’s coverage of Mitt Romney I was struck by a very weird turn of words. One of the commentators they interviewed mentioned that McCain’s status was "the greatest resurrection sinze Lazarus" Lets review the timeline of relevant events, as I recall them from my time at St. James:
I posted last week I was selling some of my old books. Patty found that I’d posted the wrong link to my storefront on Amazon so that’s now the correct link.
I’m cleaning out some book shelves and looking to re-sell some old books, a smattering of fantasy and random hard-cover books I’d acquired. You can check out my listing on Amazon. I’m a bit of a bookphile, Patty can tell confirm this, I used to absolutely hate when she would highlight her books or dog-ear