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Jul 27 12

My Desktop Workflow

by arlo

I was asked to share my desktop workflow by Talentopoly.com’s blog. I really enjoyed writing about how I use my workstation and what shortcuts I have that save me lots of time throughout the day. In case you might be interested here is a link to that post. http://blog.talentopoly.com/2012/07/26/featured-desktop-arlo-carreon/ Tweet

May 12 12

My WordPress header.php Got Hacked – snxstat77.info

by arlo

Today I went to see some analytics and noticed that traffic was unusually down. I went to a popular wiki page that usually drives a lot of traffic to check if my link was there. It sure was, but when I clicked on it chrome gave me a malware warning! XSS Hack (cross site scripting) [...]

May 5 12

Deploying Your Git Repo To Arvixe Web Hosting

by arlo

Git is rapidally becoming more and more popular and while Github.com is a great way to store your projects you will need a way to deploy your web app to your shared hosting. Arvixe.com is one of the most affordable and reliable shared hosting providers I’ve come across and a perfect example for demonstrating how [...]

Feb 13 12

What Is Varnish Cache In Layman’s Terms

by arlo

Varnish is a reverse web proxy caching system. It basically acts as an operator or a security guard, by intercepting all web requests before they reach your web server (apache). How It Works Varnish stores it’s cache in memory and not so much on the hard drive. In doing so, it is able to serve [...]

Jan 28 12

Push Git Repo Into Shared Hosting Account Like Hostgator

by arlo

Many use 3rd party git hosting (Github.com) to host their git repos, but sometimes you’re not wanting to take your project to a social network. Sometimes your repo is for yourself, for your website and no one else. I want to run you through how to setup your Hostgator account with the configuration needed to [...]

Nov 7 11

Pre And Code Tags In Github Markdown

by arlo

Not sure if there is some hidden resource somewhere on their site or blog, but I couldn’t find how to get syntax highlighting with <pre> and <code> tags. Here is what I found out. Pre and Code Tags In Github Not sure when/where I found that you could use <pre> and <code> tags, but I [...]

Nov 5 11

Hubot’s Gtalk Adapter

by arlo

Hubot is an awesome chatbot written by the Github Team and opensources recently. At work we don’t use chatroom environments, instead we use Gtalk. Our campus has staff located in several building and we all communicate via our enterprise Gtalk. IT and non tech savvy people have taking a liking to communication via the messenger. [...]

Nov 2 11

Github’s Hubot on Joyent’s no.de Smart Machines

by arlo

I had an exciting adventure hacking away at Github’s chat bot, Hubot. Hubot uses node.js as the webserver, redis for database and coffeescript for programming language. In this tutorial we will hook Hubot into a Campfire chatroom running on a free node.js server from http://No.de. Incase you have no idea what Hubot is, and you [...]

Oct 22 11

Postgre SQL/PL Function For Generating PostGIS Spatial Data

by arlo

Recently I wanted to benchmark PostGIS spacial engine with massive amounts of data. If I were to be a GIS professional I would probably have a “go-to” place for huge datasets, but I am not so I couldn’t. I wanted to benchmark spatial queries against 1 million records, just to get a good idea of [...]

Oct 5 11

Git repo inside a Git repo

by arlo

To a lot us of picking up git for the first time, sometimes we wonder what if I had a git repo inside another git repo. Alternatively, you may need to include an existing repo into a new project. None the less, I will try to explain how to use git repos inside other git [...]