Archive for the ‘Amazing’ Category

Welcome to the Western Caribbean!

Monday, May 9th, 2011

Kara and I just returned from a fabulous week-long Carnival cruise to the Western Caribbean. We flew from Greensboro to Miami and the ship sailed to four beautiful ports: Grand Cayman, Roatan, Belize, Cozumel. The best part of any cruise for me is the food, and this was no exception. ...

Hilton Head Island, SC – Day 6 of 8

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Ahh...today was awesome! We started out with tennis at 7:30. I won 6-1, 6-1—not as good as I had hoped, but not too shabby. Then we went down to the beach. While there, Kara had the fabulous idea to have Flamingo's Doughnut Cafe for dessert for lunch. So we punctuated our water ...

Caching With Zend Framework Using Zend_Cache

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Today I taught myself how to use Zend_Cache and implemented it within 20 minutes. It's super easy and very effective. Take a look at the code sample below and you'll be up and running in no time.   Step 1: Setup the Cache {code type=php} $frontendOptions = array( 'lifetime' => 180, // Cache for 3 minutes 'automatic_serialization' ...

Welcome to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Kara and I just returned from a seven-day trip to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. We stayed at Royal Decameron Costa Flamingos all-inclusive resort which had fantastic scenery and was reasonably priced at $1700 for the week including all meals, unlimited drinks, taxis to and from the airport, and airfare. The best part ...

It pays to be pink. At least Garmin thinks so.

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

For my mother's birthday I purchased a TomTom One 130. The updated maps had the other half of my road, so I was happy it could navigate more efficiently. Tonight I stumbled across a new site called DealWaiter. I plugged in "Garmin Nuvi" and it had a few results but ...

How do you watch your television shows?

Monday, May 25th, 2009

Midway through Heroes: Season 3 I realized how quickly video streaming technology has evolved in the last few years. Think about the multitude of ways you can now get your fix. Regular old TV Digital Video Recorder (DVR): TiVo, MythTV, cable box DVR Hulu YouTube (and other video-sharing sites) NetFlix's Watch Instantly Networks' websites (ABC, CBS, ...

Speed Up That Cheap Website with Cheap Amazon S3

Monday, March 16th, 2009

Do you have an economy-grade website host? Me too. BlueHost is great for only $6.95 per month but its response times and transfer rates are terrible. Fear not — Amazon S3 to the rescue. For pennies a day you can supplement your cheap website host using ...

Welcome to the Bahamas!

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

Kara and I had a lovely vacation in the Bahamas in November. Below are some of the highlights. If you'd like to see all of the pictures (the good ones, at least), head over to our online photo gallery. Oprah's House 3 sharks as seen through a glass-bottom boat No related ...

Software RAID 1 Performance on Ubuntu Server 8.04

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

A generous gift was bestowed upon me last week -- Dell's PowerEdge SC420 server. It came with two (2) 80GB hard drives which I have since replaced with two (2) 1TB hard drives. I decided to mirror these drives for the sake of redundancy using Linux's built-in software ...

Install SSH Server on Ubuntu

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

It really couldn't be any easier than this: sudo apt-get install openssh-server You're done. Now you can use ssh to remotely connect to your Ubuntu box. No related posts.