Monthly Archives: July 2009

QotD: Guy Rundle

Posted on July 23, 2009 by Jeff Waugh

The whole thing shows that if you have a basic contempt for the idea of government — that you wanted it to be small enough to “get it in the bathtub and drown it” — then it will come back … Continue reading →

Posted in Quote of the Day | Tagged Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, conservatism, Crikey, government, guy rundle, USA | 4 Comments

Watching nginx upstreams with collectd

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Jeff Waugh

Already happy with nginx in front of Apache for a number of sites, I decided it was time to start testing nginx/fastcgi on my personal server (the serial crash test dummy of my web operations). The only problem: I have … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged collectd, FastCGI, nginx, PHP | 14 Comments

QotD: Brian Aker

Posted on July 17, 2009 by Jeff Waugh

Some companies lack “open source table manners”. Often they don’t know what is expected. Like my cat bringing dead mice to the dinner table. – Brian Aker, with some tiny Twitter wisdom

Posted in Quote of the Day | 1 Comment

WordPress and Drizzle

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Jeff Waugh

So, for amusement, education and a desire to put Drizzle through its paces with a real-world application, I built a Drizzle database adapter for WordPress. Rather than completely dumping the native wpdb class (as most WordPress database adapters appear to … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Drizzle, MySQL, WordPress | 16 Comments