Bits and pieces of John Dalton from all over your internet.

RT @ChasLicc: This is awesome. RT @scrivenersfancy 'The Top 20 Five-Second Films': http://bit.ly/doJAl2

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:44:00 -0600

I need a time machine - not for time travel, just to make some more of it.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:16:00 -0600

I just bought the Mac Heist bundle. 7 awesome apps worth $260+ for just $19.95 and got 3 sweet bonus apps free! http://bit.ly/heist-it

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:06:00 -0600

About to pick up the latest MacHeist bundle, but I already have a license for RipIt (http://thelittleappfactory.com/ripit/) - who wants it?

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:29:00 -0600

Ten days until the twins arrive.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:31:00 -0600

Baz just saw the cake for his birthday party and said "oh no, that's not going to work - it doesn't look right!"

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:10:00 -0600

The splendid magic of Penny Arcade by Mike Krahulik

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:30:00 -0600

New York : Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 2010.

Y the last man : paper dolls by Brian K. Vaughan

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:20:00 -0600

New York : DC Comics , 2006.

Y the last man : girl on girl by Brian K. Vaughan

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:19:00 -0600

New York, N.Y. : DC Comics, c2003-

Michael Caplan / Blog / Don't Forget to Flush

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:03:00 -0600

An excellent article explaining the benefits of prematurely flushing the first part of the web server's response, in particular the page headers. Discusses chunked encoding and content compression as well.

[users@httpd] Chunked + Gzip

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:01:00 -0600

Beginning of a thread about apache which describes mod_deflate and chunked transfer encoding working together such that each chunked is individually gzipped. The thread doesn't resolve the question of whether this is allowed, but demonstrates that it works (and that apache/mod_deflate exhibits this behaviour by default).

View HTTP Request and Response Header

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:55:00 -0600

Simple tool for inspecting the headers of the response sent back by a webserver. Doesn't do anything that Firebug or Chrome dev tools don't do, but it's lightweight and requires no installation.

chunkview

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:42:00 -0600

A tool for viewing details of individual chunks sent back in the response from a webserver which is using the "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" feature of HTTP/1.1

Geez, thanks @librarythingtim - we might need a new server for all the people playing CoverGuess on LibraryThing ;)

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:06:00 -0600

Just proved that a problem with mod_deflate not gzipping individual chunks is a local config or build issue. Yay. #apache #rhel

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:48:00 -0600

Started an AWS instance to test something, then spent 15 minutes tracking down my key. Probably should have done that first.

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:31:00 -0600

It's Sebastian's fifth birthday today! It's been both the longest and shortest five years of our life, but probably the best years as well.

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:21:00 -0600

Why have these two MySQL servers decided to join tables in a different order all of a sudden?

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:31:00 -0600

Today looks set to end with me nursing a couple of database servers back to health.

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:45:00 -0600

Finally got around to watching Jamie Oliver's TED talk. All parents should see this: http://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_oliver.html

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:56:00 -0600