Category: General
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Apache mod_deflate and mod_cache issues
The Problem: Using Apache mod_deflate and mod_disk_cache (or other mod_cache) together can create far too many cached files. The Background: Apache is a web server with many different modules you can load in to enhance it. Two common ones are mod_deflate and mod_cache (or mod_disk_cache). Mod_deflate compresses content that is sent to the webserver using…
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10 Skills You Need That You Won’t Learn In School
I just read this article: 10 Skills You Need to Succeed at Almost Anything. I think it’s a great list. At least for my career path, I can directly attribute a great deal of my effectiveness and successes to skills on this list. Being able to communicate clearly and articulate a point or argument, verbally…
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Doing The Best Job You Can
I was reading a story about some airline employees failing to take care of a passenger with MD, and one comment mentioned how a Japanese airline employee hand delivered a jacket a passenger had left behind on the opposite side of the country. Without making any particular comments on the US airline industry’s current level…
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Pixily – Go Paperless!
I have a filing cabinet filled with paperwork, receipts, warrantees, contracts, rental agreements, and more. I’m basically a computer person, and I love searching and instant gratification, so I’ve always wanted to scan everything in, and have a bunch of searchable PDFs that take up no physical space, and are easy to back up off-site.…
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Publish!
It occurs to me that doctors and scientists are encouraged to, and given job time, to write and publish papers/articles in journals, etc… I think employers should be encouraging developers/architects to release or work on open source projects, post technical articles, keep a technical blog, etc… Not only does it let developers keep up with…
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Design Comparison
Good design is apparently harder than you might think. Let’s take a quick look at three big online cosmetic/accessory web store-fronts: Drugstore.com, Sephora.com, and Ulta.com. I’m not an IA, so I won’t try to do a big analysis. I’m just going to let you look at the three different home page looks across the three…