me, a compy 386, and some progressive house

So Friday I drove to the Jersey shore (quit hating, all you NY’ers come to our shores ever summer) and had a blast. So lets see, Friday was me at a place called “The Quail” where I began a night of steady boozing. Couple of jack and cokes, a bloody Mary, some MGD and I was feeling fine. To boot I was wearing my Ghostbuster’s t-shirt and that rocked. Saturday was wake up and be hungover at the golf range day where me and family drove golf balls and even went to the batting cages.

Afterward I went to the mall and inquired at a shop called Adrenaline how much it would cost to get some repair work done on my arms and to my amazement my cousin decided to get a tattoo. It looks hot hope she enjoys it and I can’t wait to get my touch up work done. Besides that it was a great weekend.

Also IMPORTANT: I now have a facebook developer account and API key. I be in ur facebooks stealinz ur friendz.

1. Getting a call from ExpandTheRoom

2. Realizing that in versions > 8.1 for PostgreSQL that you can do multiple inserts now in one statement

INSERT INTO products (product_no, name, price) VALUES
(1, 'Cheese', 9.99),
(2, 'Bread', 1.99),
(3, 'Milk', 2.99);

3. Figuring out that Facebook apps are really really easy to build.

This list will be added to as the day moves forward.

Is so awesome!  Well after checking out season one and two of Code Geass (which can also be found on youtube for free, thanks Bandai!) I decided to give this one a whirl.  Def a great series, check it out here:

Have nothing to do with each other but I figured I would make it the title.  Here in house we have a new set of memcached daemons setup to help speed up data but the problem is that we don’t have many ways to see what memcached is doing.  There is a module/hook that is included with Drupal but the permissions are wonky and show all sorts of odd output on the screen as an administrators (which is great for us tech guys but not for the sales team administrators).

I wrote a script which can be found here: http://pastebin.com/f16e2389e

On a unrelated note I have listened to the album “Overcome” by All That Remains, good stuff here, just enough heavy riffage to get me through the day.

Enjoy the video, also check out http://truthhappens.redhat.com/.

Things that have happend this week:

1. Drupal Core upgrade to 5.16
2. Memacached configured and installed on production site
3. Upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04

The last one is for me personally :).

So there is a really neat feature in Drupal called “site offline” mode, in which the site is taken offline and any visitors are presented with a page indicating this.  This is awesome except for the fact that if your revenue is based on user signups you cannot have 99.9% uptime you need 100%  uptime (a hard feat in itself).  One scheme to achieve this is to swap the virtual hosts in your Apache configuration file to point to an offline site that has a database which can capture data that can be imported after the maintenance work is complete.  This method while time consuming is rock solid but not fluid as you have to go to the web serving software to achieve this.

If you happen to know about the templating engine inside of Drupal you can find a way to overwrite the “maintenance page” with a hook of your own.  In fact it is as simple as doing “function phptemplate_maintenance_page() {}”.  That is all it is!  Inside of this function you can have the page point to itself and be the handler for all requests necessary.  It is a cool little trick to perform if you still want to have user data captured while doing database maintenance.

As I plug away on the game for a little bit, enjoy the new theme and upgraded core.  Well I will at least.

So today I rolled out a new CMS tool for our Salesteams/Editorial and anyone who may need to see what is going on via the calendar.

It has been a very long trek to get this application out and so far the teams have not had any major fires that need to be put out.  On another completely different unrelated (maybe not!) note:  What is the tolerance/threshold of a software developer before they either quit or just leave the company?