Year: 2009
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P-Town
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In Chelmsford even the squirrels are tough!
In a scene straight out of the SquirrelFather, this is what I found on my doorstep (click for larger version):
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Google Speed!
Google has a nice collection of tutorials, tech talks, etc… related to making websites run faster. You can find it here: Let’s make the web faster. This is no longer available. Check out a 3rd party guide here: PageSpeed Guide and higher level Google Site here: PageSpeed Insights Rules I strongly disagree with the first…
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New Office
After working in the dining room for two months, the home office is finally done. We had new floors, paint, and trim done upstairs, but then I built a custom desk, printer stand, and closet shelving. The reason I built my own desk, is that I really wanted a desk where I was facing the…
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Looking for abusive clients in your web server logs
Here’s a quick tip on how to find IPs that may be hammering on your web server: [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][plain] cat access.log |cut -d ‘ ‘ -f 2 |sort|uniq -c | sort -nk 1…
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Server Backups to S3
Backing Up Your Server, Locally and Remotely After my recent hard drive failure, improving my backup strategy was high on my list. My server has two drives, so what I wanted was a local backup on the second drive for quick recovery in case the primary drive failed, and a remote backup somewhere in case…