Building the new Web Server

In an earlier post I mentioned the fact that I will be rebuilding this blog.

CakePHP vs Django vs Rails vs Who Cares - Make a Decision

As someone who:

1. has made a framework choice, and developed numerous projects on that framework (CakePHP) and,


2. is always poking around with other frameworks

I am often asked about the tough choice of picking among all the great framework choices (both in and out of the …

My Path to a Career in Web Development

I enjoy hearing about the paths people have taken on the journey to their current job.

Graduate School Independent Study

This is my last semester of graduate school. In May I will be graduating with a MSCS degree. This semester I am taking an Operating Systems course as well as an independent study. So far the subject matter for the OS course has been good, but what I'm really excited …

Simple Managed Content: SimpleMC

Today, with the support of Blue Atlas Interactive, I am releasing version 0.90 of Simple Managed Content (SimpleMC). SimpleMC, which requires PHP/MySQL, aims to provide an easy way for content editors to manage blocks of content. The following links and screencast …

Book Review: Lighttpd

I was recently contacted by PACKT Publishing and asked to provide a review for Lighttpd. Following is the review.

PunBB Authentication JQuery Plugin

I have finally created my first jQuery plugin. The punbbauth plugin should provide an easy way to sync authentication between your application and PunBB.



This plugin provides an easy way to hook into PunBB authentication login/logout. Hooks should be applied to your …

Great Computer Security Quotes

Occasionally something comes up via Twitter that is really interesting. Today, Nate Abele (of CakePHP fame) shared a link to "The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security", written by Marcus J. Ranum (a world-renowned expert on security system design and implementation) …

VI Tips of the Day #3

Deleting Text

After opening a VI session, often you'll want to delete "things" from your file:

• CTRL+h or Backspace - Delete previous character


• CTRL+w - Delete previous word


• CTRL+x - Delete to start of inserted text


• nx - Delete n characters beginning with current; …

Personal Dislikes: Failing to See the Big Picture

There really isn't a whole lot that bothers me.

VI Tips of the Day #2

Moving Your Cursor

After opening a VI session, often you'll want to move your cursor around:

• k - Up


• j - Down


• h - Left


• l or Space - Right


• w or W - Start of next word; W ignores punctuation


• b or B - Start of previous word; B ignores punctuation


• e or E - End of next word; …

Book Review: CakePHP Application Development

I was recently contacted by PACKT Publishing and asked to provide a review for CakePHP Application Development. Following is the review.

VI Tips of the Day #1

Inserting Text

After opening a VI session, often you'll want to start editing or adding text.

• a - Append after cursor


• A - Append after end of current line


• i - Insert before cursor


• I - Insert before beginning of current line


• o - Open new line below current line and …

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Make Yourself a Lasagna

I'm not writing anything else here, so I figured I'd post my lasagna recipe.

Web Application Security

In preparation for my web application security talk at Damascus High School, I have made my presentation available through slideshare.

CakePHP Logging

CakePHP logging provides an easy way to write to either a debug or error log, however did you know that you can also very easily write to other log files?

Peter Schiff is the Man

Watching this clip makes me understand just a little bit better how we got into such a financial mess in this country.

Breaking my New Years Resolution

December 31, 2007 I decided that I would not eat dessert at all in 2008.

Blog Overhaul Using Django

My plan for a long time now has been to move away from Wordpress as my blog engine. Wordpress has been great for me, and it does a lot of things right (for one, it just works and you can be up and running with a blog very rapidly), but it can be a pig. Anyway, I …