Sean’s Obsessions

After more work on a CakePHP app I wanted to host it somewhere. Because this is a fairly low volume app I went with a shared hosting provider.
One problem was that I needed two different database connections, one for my development site, and one when I push it to the server. It was […]

b5media has launched an entertainment gateway
Our dev team worked around the clock (literally… you go Brian!) to get this ready for launch. I think it’s a great evolution of the channel concept. Rather than just having a bunch of blogs in a channel, we have this portal to help showcase the best posts, and […]

I had a need to put password protection on a web site, but allow a certain section to be unprotected. The other way around is easy because permissions are inherited to subdirectories, so a child directory won’t affect a parent.
According to Configuration Sections, merging, Locations containers are processed in order, so the second container […]

Over at b5media we have some internal code that ties all the blogs together to make us a network. This was initially implemented as a brilliant little REST API, only requiring minor changes in some database tables that could completely alter how the network was arranged. Additional functionality could be added easily to […]

There’s lots of documents out there on how to download the latest time zone data and apply it manually. In the interests of proper management though, I like using RPM to do pretty much everything. The problem is that Fedora Legacy has disbanded, so I can’t get patches for my FC1 and FC4 […]

I like to cook. The other night I wanted to make some caramel corn so I started searching for recipes on the Internet. All I found was crap, or the same recipe rehashed (using 1 cup of butter, no less). I’ve also been on mailing lists where the same point gets debated, […]

A co-worker pointed me to (ISC)2’s rebuttal of my earlier article.
https://www.isc2.org/download/SearchSecurityArticleCounterpoints.pdf
I’m still not convinced by their arguments which are largely arguing semantics.

You’ll note “Student” is in quotes. I’m not claiming it’s the official title.
One of my arguments is that these new “(ISC)2 associates” will be confused with regular CISSPs. (ISC)2’s argument seems to […]

After watching the Waffle Truth I wanted to try Alton Brown’s Waffle recipe. Previously I’ve been using the one from the Joy of Cooking which is excellent, but having to use cake flour, sift it, and separate the eggs makes waffle making a pain.
AB’s recipe calls for a mix of all purpose and whole […]

People who have been here before might recognize a change — I’ve moved to WordPress 2.0 as I threatened to do earlier.

The change wasn’t that bad, but it wasn’t without its fun.

3:01 am, healthy baby boy! More details to come, I’ll make calls tomorrow.