Session Locking in PHP with Memcached

During some cache testing I was doing in Magento this past week I ran into something that at first looked like a bug, but really just turned out to be a limitation of PHP Sessions. It isn’t immediately obvious so I thought I’d share. I’ve been using the profiler built into Magento as well as [...]

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Auto Tweeting Quality Links

People regularly ask me how I manage to post links to Twitter all day long and still have a life. (Or a job.) I’ve let a few people in on the secret sauce, but I wanted something to refer people to when they asked on Twitter. It all starts with Google Reader. At the beginning [...]

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Javascript Frameworks

I found myself researching javascript frameworks last night and thought I’d share a bit of knowledge. The killer feature of a javascript framework is that you can setup a model (think object) or collection (think array of objects), bind a dom element to that model or collection and then any changes made directly to the [...]

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IPv6 is here (and how it screwed me)

In case you’ve been living under a rock, you might like to know that IPv6 is actually turning into a real thing. Google and many others are officially turning on IPv6 support for good. Yay! If you’re not sure what this means or why, check out Google’s write up on the transition. They explain it [...]

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OS X Lion – All over again.

It’s only been about 6 months since my last post on reinstalling OS X Lion, but since then I’ve changed my workflow a bit and added a few new tools. Here’s my most recent list from the weekend. Chrome Silverlight (What can I say? I decided to pull up Battlestar Galactic while I worked.) Setup a case [...]

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Web Font Converter

Wow. This font converter works wonderfully. Highly recommend.

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JSHint

Very cool JavaScript helper. I wonder if there is a way to plug it into Sublime Text. Updated Nov, 2012: Yep, there is! You can find a plugin for this on GitHub or, better yet, use Sublime Package Control!

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Twitter Bootstrap

Twitter Bootstrap I found this thru David Boskovic recently and it’s made prototyping and framing pages really quick and easy. Good stuff.

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Pretty Placeholders

Pretty Placeholders It’s exactly what it sounds like. And I like it.

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Google Web Fonts

I don’t know how I missed this, but google has this huge web fonts thing. It’s cool.

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