Shawn Holwegner's Blog

lather. rinse. repeat.

It is possible to build MING as a module, even if it isn’t very straight-forward.

Sadly, the latest alpha (0.3b2) is broken with PHP, so I’ve opted to just provide a diff against 0.3b1. The following ‘patch’ will enable the makefiles to build a MacOS X compatible bundle.

Note that 0.3b1 comes...

This is a silly little ghost story that was shared on a public forum a couple of years back. Sadly, I do not recall who, or where it originated, but I was quite happy to stumble across it whist going through my archives.

I present to you, “Jim, the Etheral Admin”:

Right, so a few years ago I get...

This is amazingly primitive, and simple – but it’s something I needed to write. My URL redirect needs to be semi-sentient, in that it needs to understand if users are entering a full URL such as ‘http://www.google.com/’ or merely ‘www.google.com’. This simple little code snippit checks for the val...

I’ve cleaned up the code, and feel that my ‘URL shortener’ redirect service is ready for general use! It is now configurable to use HTTP redirect headers, or meta tags, touts general compliance to smlnk’s former interface, and works with or without mod_rewrite for portability!

What’s the story? I...

Many moons ago, I purchased AppleCare for my laptop. I have been nothing but impressed with their service.

There has been a long-standing issue with the network, which they seem to have resoved at the same tiem they’ve repared the askew hinges for the second time. My machine is missing a bit of pa...

This issue has been perplexing myself, and others. A person with the handle of “Laconicus” imparted the wisdom:

“One of the Verisign Code-Signing CRLs is due to be updated today (as of 8th Jan, midnight GMT), and your computer hanging for a few seconds when you right-click a file (or try to delete...