Laravel 4 Error Handling

Jan 21, 2013

Laravel uses Exceptions for error handling. This includes both HTTP error codes and application (run-time) errors.

Ubuntu for Phones

Jan 03, 2013

Ubuntu has an OS targeted for smart phones. After my initial excitement at the prospect of having an OS I could really nerd out on (Really hoping for a Terminal app), I realized one thing: I don't use any of Ubuntu's graphical tools.

The switch to Google Enterprise

Jan 03, 2013

Last week, during our break, we switched from a hosted Exchange service to Google Enterprise. The main driver to change was lack of space - some of us have emails going back 7 years and have accrued many gigabytes of data. Adding more available space was getting too costly.

What is Scale?

Dec 26, 2012

Does your business scale? Does your platform scale? Do you scale? What is scale?

Ubuntu: Install LAMP with PHP 5.5

Dec 17, 2012

Using Tasksel and installing the lamp-server package still gives you php 5.3. Here's how to install a LAMP server with php 5.5.

Git: Completely remove files from git history

Nov 15, 2012

Very useful for removing unwanted files from your git repository. Cloning a 1.5gb repository because someone accidentally committed in a video or cache is annoying, to say the least.