bsdguru

lj_bot rules

2007-01-06T17:28:02Z

You have to love lj_bot and the fact that it allows you to post to your livejournal! :)

Gizmo

2007-01-06T17:27:14Z

Installed LJ Talk client. Hoping that Brad is around! :)

w00t username.livejournal.com now works for free users

2006-01-21T19:40:14Z

Due to security issues with cross site scripting and malicious javascript, LiveJournal has now moved all users to having their own username.livejournal.com instead of the old URL due to security considerations and sandboxing users cookies differently.

I would have thought that it would have made sense from an earlier point in time to provide all users with username.livejournal.com. For example for my livejournal bsdguru links to bsdguru.livejournal.com similarly to how for my wordpress blog I have bsdguru.wordpress.com.

My first post from the San Francisco Datacentre

2005-11-19T19:04:20Z

Seems like Live Journal has made the move to San Francisco from their racks in Seattle.

FastCGI and Movable Type

2005-08-27T22:00:04Z

Brad Choate from Six Apart has placed instructions up on his website for running Movable Type using lighthttp and FastCGI.

Which in a way is great news as the Movable Type application is going to be flipping fast running via FastCGI once the essentials are loaded. :)

Brad this is super duper news!

Currently my weblog is running via the normal apache handler. Will look into getting FastCGI support going next week.

Progress on PEAR Cache_Memcached

2005-07-02T13:11:02Z

Still working on the my PEAR Cache_Memcached project. The proposal is still in first draft stages as I still have certain things to do prior to changing the proposal from 'draft' to 'proposed'.

PEAR Cache_Memcached

2005-06-27T17:58:29Z

Spent a few hours on Sunday working on my PEAR Cache_Memcache proposal which provides users with an Object Orientated interface for accessing memcached servers. Ideally users would have a similar interface to the perl memcache client which was written by brad and the various others at Danga Interactive.

Basically I'm busy cleaning up the code and using Net_Socket to do various socket related calls instead of reinventing the wheel. I've also started writing some unit tests for testing that things work as expected.

I've setup a little project page as well over on my website.

Sco.com has been hacked!

2004-11-29T12:14:53Z

Quite funny that SCO who are the most hated company in the world after the borg, was hacked earlier today.

Darl must be fuming!

TypeKey support for PHP driving me up the wall

2004-08-28T18:27:40Z

I've spend countless hours trying to hack together some code to do TypeKey authentication for PHP. The main problem that I'm encountering is that that noone has added DSA support in any shape, form or fashion into PHP making it a bit difficult to validate the signatures that one gets back from TypeKey.

Hopefully I can figure enought of the specifics for PHP and coding in c for the PHP module that we can shortly get DSA support built into PHP.

Live Journal Afrikaans Translation

2004-08-27T09:16:54Z

I have decided to do a little translating of the livejournal text to Afrikaans via the ljafrikaans community.