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A League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Discusses OpenStack & Ceph
The “Ceph Lords” refer to an elite society of scholars, technologists, and engineers that was founded by Captain Nemo almost 150 years ago. While on a seafaring exploration 20,000 leagues under the...
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Upload Screen Shots to DreamObjects
I work in a fascinating world – it’s that place tucked between developers and customers. Recently I’ve been residing in the land of DreamObjects – our new cloud storage service, built on Ceph. You...
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Good Backups Are Everyone’s Business
You’ve spent hours and hours on your site, you made it beautiful, and perfect, and it looks amazing! You love it! Then you go to show it to your friends and it’s all gone. What happened? Data loss is...
View ArticleWhat is a Scrum Master?
Most of my friends and family have no idea what I do for a living. In fact, I’m sure a lot of my own coworkers don’t really know what I do either. To those not in development, the title “Scrum...
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PHP has no class!
Recently I was working on a new project, but when I tried testing it on my DreamHost server, I got the ominous message… “Fatal error: Class ‘finfo’ not found” Oh noes! PHP defines several classes in...
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Brewing Up a Python Deployment
When my family bought me a “brew-beer-at-home” kit years ago, they didn’t know what they were getting themselves into. My first batch tasted a bit like carbonated cereal, but once I got some...
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DreamObjects Apps
DreamObjects is our cloud storage product we’ve touted since January. More specifically, it’s object storage, which is a bit different than “standard” storage you’d use at home or work. Some of the...
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Part 1: PHP Security: User Validation and Sanitization for Beginners
First and foremost: you’ll need a working knowledge of PHP to read this post. But not much is needed since this is intended for beginners. Why Secure your Site In this day and age, when the internet is...
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MySQL: Checking The Slow Query Log And Simple Indexing
The dreaded spinning mouse pointer and the progress bar moving at a snails pace, are frustrating for both website viewers and those responsible for maintaining a site. Many times a site will have...
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Hot Off The Pressgram
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. “Honey, I made a Picstagram account so I can share my photos with you! What’s your account?” “Get with it, mom, no one uses Pictsagram, we use Picbook now!” It often...
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Open Source and DreamHost: Like Peanut Butter and Chocolate
The story of DreamHost starts with open source from the very beginning. Our first server was a commodity PC running Debian Linux with Apache as the web server and perl as our programming language of...
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The Power of DreamPress and Caching
In a recent review from ReviewSignal, DreamPress performed significantly better than last year. This is due, in large part, to the efforts of multiple teams here at DreamHost and their commitment to...
View ArticleAn App Developer is an App Developer is an App Developer
What you call yourself may determine what resources — or jobs — open up to you Software developers have now become app developers, who knew? I made this discovery as I was hunting down the best names...
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