Rick is a professional web programmer, developer, and geek. He writes, he bikes, and he's trying to get back into rock climbing despite living in the planar desolation that is Florida.
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I’m fighting with audiobooks again. I’ve mostly got my process down, but there continue to be new levels of dumb to deal with. As it stands, the process goes something like: Buy an audiobook. Generally, this is on CD because I trust Audible about as much as I trust Ubisoft, and for …
keywords audiobooks, books
This is for my own future reference. I had a problem earlier tonight where the slave DNS server my domains wouldn’t return anything but SERVFAIL for any domain. The server was up and running and the config files hadn’t changed, but it just wouldn’t give any useful answers. The …
keywords bind, config files, web
One of my long-standing assertions is that perfect OOP is amusing and all, but it tends to stumble a bit when it comes to web development. Interfaces are my go-to example for this. How often, in everyday real-world web development, are you suddenly going to need to swap out one Model class for …
keywords assertions, couchdb, model class, mongodb, oop, programming, real world, sql, web, web dev, web development, web interfaces
Short version: I ported FW/1 to PHP. Long version: I’ve been using Sean Corfield’s Framework/1 as a teaching tool for ~18 months. It’s been going well, as I find FW/1 is one of the few frameworks that doesn’t suck. It’s easy to set up, easy to configure, and it …
keywords corfield, frameworks, fw, fw/1, php, web
This podcast is part of an assignment for my MS schoolwork, but I decided to share it on my main blog. It appears you have a browser that doesn’t grok the HTML5 <audio> tag. You can download the MP3 directly: 2011-02-06 Teaching Anecdotes. Transcript: Good day, all. Rick O here. In …
keywords anecdotes, blog, mp3, ogg, podcast, school
This podcast is part of an assignment for my MS schoolwork, but I decided to share it on my main blog. It appears you have a browser that doesn’t grok the HTML5 <audio> tag. You can download the MP3 directly: 2011-02-06 Teaching Anecdotes. Transcript: Good day, all. Rick O here. In …
keywords anecdotes, blog, mp3, podcast, school
For my own future reference, here are the steps I used to lock down an Amazon EC2 instance running the Railo image: SSH in as the ubuntu user. It should use your existing Amazon key pair. If it doesn’t, go read up on how EC2 works. Create a new user account and add the user [...]
keywords amazon ec2, coldfusion, ssh, web
For my own future reference, here are the steps I used to lock down an Amazon EC2 instance running the Railo image: SSH in as the ubuntu user. It should use your existing Amazon key pair. If it doesn’t, go read up on how EC2 works. Create a new user account and add the user [...]
keywords amazon ec2, coldfusion, ssh, web
It’s put up or shut up time for me. I have a running coach scheduled for 2011. I’ve completed a half marathon ahead of my goal time. The next step really can’t be anything other than a full marathon. But which one? I come from a military family. We have people in the Army, Navy, …
keywords coach, fitness, half marathon, life
You know what would be really cool? ColdFusion for Android. Wait. I’m not talking about ColdFusion the server-side framework. I’m talking about ColdFusion the language and development platform. I’m talking about the data-oriented language with primitives for building …
keywords centric applications, coldfusion, coldfusion server, development platform, java source, primitives, server side
