Hello, my name is Daniel Ice. I am a software developer in the Dallas, TX area. I enjoy learning about new technology. I mostly focus on PHP and Ruby on Rails.
So I got an email for a job today which had the following line: Plans, conducts, and coordinates programming application activities. Analyzes, designs and implements business application computer software that contains logical and mathematical solutions to business problems, questions or processes. I decided to Google that phrase (the whole phrase). There were a ton of [...]
So, I have heard about nginx (engine x) as a great alternative to apache. Apache is a very robust web server. Nginx is a very minimal server. It doesn’t to a lot of stuff, but that is fine because it does the things I need it to do. Being a PHP developer the big hurdle [...]
So I just installed nagios on my server at work. I configured it to check our companies websites every 5-10 minutes. I even got a couple of the sites setup to check if it was able to log in via the web inject plugin. That’s not really that or earth shattering. Things got interesting when [...]