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Introducing Tweakstreet

If you've known me for any length of time, you know my love of and heavy use of open source. Rarely though I'll find tools that aren't pure open source that are quite worthwhile to have in the toolbox. For a long time, my main go-to data integration tool has …


A Sad Day For Open Source

Today is a sad day for open source. I found out only a couple of hours ago that Red Hat, like many other open source companies before it, decided to sell itself to a group that will likely do what Oracle did to Sun Microsystems. It's a damn shame. The …


Setting Up New Blog - Pelican Edition

I've been wanting to do this for a while now, and finally found the time/bit the bullet. Wordpress, while awesome, just wasn't cutting it for me - especially since I had to pay quite a bit for hosting and the like. For now, I'll use GitHub pages and go from …


MySQL Case

I was in the midst of developing a system to track OTIF (On Time In Full) deliveries to my employer's customers. I wanted to be able to take the data and use it with a nice open source sparkline tool found here.

To do that though, I needed to be …


When Adding Plugins To Your Symfony Project

Had the roughest time getting this one going - so therefore I'm posting just in case anyone else gets stuck.

Today, I started adding user security to the training database I've been developing in Symfony 1.1.  One of the great things about a strong framework like Symfony is the ability …