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Handy tips for getting Swift (OpenStack's object store component) up and running when it just won't cooperate.

It seems so simple, and yet the method for installing Node.js, NPM and LESS non-interactively is extremely difficult to find. For future reference here's the concise way to make it work.

Spring cleaning is a good thing to do. Especially on old projects. One of those projects that desperately needed work was the homepage for Zero Coordinate Inc. The goal was to create a site that loaded inordinately fast and showcased some fun new tech without any javascript at all. Let me give the quick rundown of what's new and cool about it...

I received a very unexpected honor this week: I was invited to become a committer for Django by Jacob Kaplan-Moss!

Every Wednesday Suzanne Long (Manager, Forbidden Island) unveils an all-new cocktail of her own creation—served that night only and never again at Forbidden Island. For showing up and ordering the drink, you get a limited-edition collector's card, and at the end of the 13 weeks, there are prizes to be won.

I meant to write this article about a month ago, but I've been too swamped to get it out.

Long story short: I'm done with AIM.

A part of me is amazed that the protocol has stuck around as long as it has, and another part is surprised I've stuck with it.

In truth, I hardly know ...

I've decided to start adding rel="designer" to the little "Designed by" links that go into sites I work on. That's right.

As the whole XFN movement continues to grow (slowly), I can't help but notice that there's no place in the spec for businesses. Identity is just as crucial for businesses as it is for ...

I've known about stackoverflow.com for a while... anybody that uses Google as their reference for coding lands on solutions there pretty regularly.

I signed up as a user two days ago after learning more about them at Google I/O and I have to say, there are are some excellent design features at work on their site.

1. They ...

At the keynote this morning, Google announced a brand new product that they're calling Wave which is flat out amazing.

Imagine combining gmail, chat, and docs and turning them into one all-encompassing real-time collaborative tool. Yeah, that's just the beginning.

Everyone invited to the Wave can edit simlutaneously without conflicts.

All the changes appear on everyone's screen ...

I got tired of having to upload every little change to the code of my web designs to the server to see if they even work at all, so I decided I'd run a local web server with PHP on my computer. If they ran Linux, this would be extremely simple. Unfortunately, I run Windows XP on both my ...

Useful tricks in Asterisk and some troubleshooting suggestions for the amazingly customizable (and frustrating) PBX system.