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Seattle Weather and Amazon

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Here is Seattle we are having a cold spell, which has allowed about 6″ of snow to accumulate where I live, with upwards of 12″ in other neighborhoods. Not a lot considering what I used to deal with in Vermont, but no plows, no sand/salt on the road, lots of hills and drivers unaccustomed to […]

Format a MySQL date in PHP

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

I was looking through some very old code of mine and saw the hoops I jumped through to format a MySQL date field into something a little more friendly. It wasn’t pretty, involving explode() among other things. Being more familiar with PHP now, I thought it would be nice to post a snippet of code. […]

Amazon CloudFront CDN

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Amazon has released their CDN offering, CloudFront. Some interesting notes:

Eight POPs in the US, four in Europe and two in Asia.
Pricing is different across regions - i.e. Asia is more expensive than the US - and charged by GB’s delivered and GET requests.
Origin must be S3, although the way the documentation reads and is structured, […]

Dojo Lightbox, CDN and Problems

Friday, November 14th, 2008

I have spent over an hour trying to get a simple page using Dojo’s lightbox and no luck. I am more of a jQuery fan, but thought I would give Dojo a try since it is coupled with Zend Framework now. I tried adding the script and css tags manually to the page, not through […]

Export RSS Feeds from Outlook and Import Into Google Reader

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Exporting your Feeds out of Outlook

Select the file menu from Outlook
Choose Import and Export
Choose Export RSS Feeds to an OPML file
Click Next
Choose the RSS feeds you wish to export, or hit Select All to select all the feeds.
Click Next
Click the Browse button to find the location where you want to save the OPML file, type […]