Writings from a Philadelphia Software Engineer…
At my day job, I get to write a bit of code. I’m fortunate that my employer is pretty cool about letting us open source what we write, so I’m happy to announce that two of my projects have been open sourced! The first project is an app which I wrote in PHP, it can be …
Work is sending me to a conference that just happens to be hosted in Las Vegas, a city where there are a few casinos. I’m not much for gambling, so I figured I should learn a little about it before I even think of doing such a thing. I read that craps is a fun …
What is a URL shortener? A URL shortener is a service which takes a long URL and creates a much shorter URL which then forwards you to the original URL when loaded. For example, the URL http://bit.ly/18lZ8Ns, if clicked on, will redirect your browser to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheetah instead. Short URLs and the services that offer their creation have grown …
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In the last post, I talked about how to create a Git repository and upload it to GitHub. In this post, I’m going to talk about how to resolve Git conflicts. Setting Up Our Environment First, we’re going to create a Git Repository for the user Doug. Since I already covered that in the last post, I’m …
In this post, I’m going to discuss how to create a GitHub repo and upload (or “push”) it to GitHub, a popular service for hosting Git repositories. What is revision control and why do I need it? The concept of revision control is a system which tracks changes to files. In programming, that is usually program …
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The Challenge When hotel reservations open, that is the single busiest time of the year for Anthrocon’s webserver. In fact, it even caused us performance problems last year. That was not so good. So this year, I decided to try something different. Instead of leaving the regular website up and running, which involves using Drupal, I …
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