Gordaen's Blog

It’s a bit late, so I’ll cut the story down significantly. I was attempting to make my nginx (web server) install play nicely with a front controller PHP setup and became rather frustrated tonight. For some reason, Firefox started to download the index file as a bin(ary). Any time I went to http://example.com/, Firefox would [...]

This is an excellent example of me being an idiot. I have pretty much made the decision to go from Dreamhost to Slicehost, so I thought I would start by transferring my least-used domain as the guinea pig. I created all the DNS records per the nice tutorial and proceeded to change the name servers [...]

Continuing my adventure in learning Python, I’ve frequently done searches for Python equivalents to various bits of PHP code and come across a lot of Python programmers bashing PHP. One of the most common Python arguments is that PHP, as a language, is ugly. Personally, I disagree. I think that a dollar sign in front [...]

Where I work, the decision has been made to use Python for all new projects. Up until this point, the vast majority of my coding experience has been in PHP. I had been reluctant to take the time to learn Python, because it did not give me anything that I needed, but I started reading [...]

Like anyone who uses computers, I have to deal with a ridiculous amount of spam. My email is double-filtered with Spam Assassin and Gmail, so very little email spam actually makes it to my inbox anymore. Unfortunately, I still have to deal with comment spam on my blog and websites. I decided to give an [...]