http://www.iamcal.com/ All the links rom iamcal.com 2012-09-26T14:25:06Z http://www.iamcal.com/images/logo.gif http://www.iamcal.com/ http://www.iamcal.com/2012-09/deploying-at-github/ <p>I've been meaning to link to this for a while: <a href="https://github.com/blog/1241-deploying-at-github">Deploying at GitHub</a> explains the develop/stage/deploy cycle at github, which can rougly be described as "Like Flickr, but with personal dev environments and using Git". It's light on technical details, but says a lot of the right things.</p> 2012-09-26T14:25:06Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-07/blind-hashing/ <p>In the wake of password-hacking-month (Linkedin, Last.fm, Yahoo, etc) Jeremy Spilman talks about an interesting idea for increasing the cost to stealing password databases, rather than just the hashing: <a href="http://www.opine.me/a-better-way-to-store-password-hashes/">part 1</a>, <a href="http://www.opine.me/all-your-hashes-arent-belong-to-us/">part 2</a></p> 2012-07-20T09:55:35Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-05/twelve-factor-app/ <p><a href="http://www.12factor.net/">12 factor app</a> says a lot of good things that i agree with, but the server-process model rule is odd. there doesn't seem to be an obvious reason why the php/apache/processes model is wrong, but it's not allowed. uh?</p> 2012-05-01T22:54:23Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-04/uh-travis/ <p>I'd like to check out <a href="http://travis-ci.org/">travis-ci</a>, but loading it crashes chrome. How does it even do that?</p> 2012-04-25T15:44:53Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-04/facebook-engineering-process/ <p>A <a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/exclusive-a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-facebook-release-engineering.ars/1">nice read</a> about facebook's release engineering approach. This should all sound very familiar to Flickr alumni.</p> 2012-04-18T19:22:39Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2011-06/2681/ <p><a href="http://phpsadness.com/">php sadness</a> points out a lot of real issues, but it's still the best tool for many problems</p> 2011-06-07T17:08:19Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2011-05/2677/ <p>damn, someone has figured out <a href="http://coderoom.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/3-simple-rules-that-will-make-you-a-superstar-developer/">my secret</a></p> 2011-05-27T13:26:49Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2010-08/2540/ <p>noting these down for later reference - two <a href="http://www.quora.com/Why-doesnt-Quora-use-PostgreSQL">excellent</a> <a href="http://www.quora.com/Why-does-Quora-use-MySQL-as-the-data-store-rather-than-NoSQLs-such-as-Cassandra-MongoDB-CouchDB-etc">answers</a> on quora from adam d'angelo on why quora uses mysql instead of postgres or a nosql solution. he says everything i've been saying for the last few years, but more eloquently</p> 2010-08-16T21:30:47Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2009-02/2080/ <p><a href="http://www.warehouseapp.com/">warehouse</a> looks pretty good, but it requires both ruby on rails (easy-ish to install) and the ruby-svn bindings (which are basically a bitch). why do the harder languages to get up and running on the web (ruby and python) require the bindings while the easier languages (php and perl) just shell out and so work easily? gah. currently using <a href="http://websvn.tigris.org/">websvn</a> in php which does a reasonable job and is trivial to set up.</p> 2009-02-28T19:13:26Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2008-09/1943/ <p><a href="http://dwoo.org/">dwoo</a> is a smarty-like template engine for php5. looks interesting. anyone have any experience with it?</p> 2008-09-24T11:02:01Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/)