Category: Blog
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Past Accomplishments
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Letter To My Mom
Lots of recent episodes of American Horror Story showcase the expression of maternal relationships, and a recent one finds a protagonist in conflict with his mother. Someone says to him that no matter how long he lives, if he finds the best people and relationships and lives happily ever after in a fairy tale, he…
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Building the Web Application Framework Stack
This post begins at the point of having installed Debian, Apache, MySQL, and PHP and being ready to start developing web applications. Now I need to install the technologies that facilitate some of the higher level features I will be using. Installing and Configuring Git First step is to install Git. This will help keep…
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Building a XenServer at Home with a Local Repository
I have gone over the process of setting up a XenServer before, but this time there is one major difference. It will be using a local repository instead of using a NAS as an ISO repository. This was a little tricky but not too bad. Once I had XenServer installed and configured, I opened an…
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Staring into an open refrigerator
“What’s wrong with your brother?” she asked, handing him half a sandwich. “How do you mean?” “Well, there’s something. He drinks all the time, Is he unhappy?” “I don’t know,” Turner said. “I mean, he must be, but I don’t know exactly why. People get stuck, sometimes.” “I kind of liked Rudy. You know?…
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Migrating our Enterprise Production Environment From ESXi to Xen
When I started developing software at my current workplace, our web app server was running Turnkey Linux on Debian 6 inside a hypervisor running VMware ESXi 4.5; all of these tools were already very obsolete when I joined the development environment, and after over two years, it was time to make some changes. I decided…
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I’m Paying $10/month for Unlimited Everything
I am paying just $10 a month for truly unlimited calls, texts, and data; and they mean it. A couple years ago I switched to T-Mobile primarily because they had the Nexus 5 and Verizon didn’t. I got lots of perks along the way like a free $180 router and no-interest financing for lots of…
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Moving My Phone Number to The Cloud with Google Voice
Recently, I was sitting in a cafe in St Thomas and I was very frustrated to learn that even though I could browse the internet on their fast, free wifi, I was not able to call or text without spending huge amounts of money because I was outside the continental US. This struck me as…
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How I Got a Free $180 Asus RT-AC68U Router
Last year, I switched to T-Mobile; a choice which has come with lots of perks. One of them was that they gave me a free router. This router supports the 802.11ac standard which means it forms very good connections to devices because of new nanotech in the antennas that allow “beam-forming” to focus the energy…
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Installing Debian on a Mac Mini G4
This post is part of a larger series about Building a Cloud at Home For Free as part of building scalable web applications from the ground up. Here we are focusing specifically on installing Debian an old G4 Mac Mini. If you are trying to setup Debian in a virtual server inside Windows, check out…