June 4, 2010

The Call to Creativity

The tedious tasks are not always the low hanging fruit. The reason tedious tasks persist is that the water is muddy. Our vision is blurry. Our view is cloudy. However the underlying truths in solving all tasks still remain. Namely that seeing the real problems, finding discreet steps, exploring unconventional options, and persistence in breaking [...]

April 9, 2008

On Trees and Other Leafy Things

Sometimes the best way to view things is in a tree shape, and your website is no exception. For a nice tree view showing file sizes and links to the actual files, edit your crontab: crontab -e Add this line into cron: 0 * * * * /usr/bin/tree -C -s -D -H http://www.yourdomain.com /address/of/your/web/root/ > [...]

February 6, 2008

The Tao of Appjet

Today I’m going to review a very awesome new web-based IDE called Appjet. This is for the programmer who wants to write web code without setting up a LAMP stack or configuring a server. Now you shouldn’t use that argument with me, since I really enjoy exploring all aspects of LAMP servers (especially the “L” [...]