Author Archives: frank

One thing leads to another

Posted on 2006-08-16 by frank

I started poking around the WordPress site, looking for hints on optimizing page rendering performance. There’s the usual bit of flaming going on in the forums, in fact when I read one thread with two people arguing about whether MySQL … Continue reading →

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Dreamhost not so dreamy

Posted on 2006-08-15 by frank

As if Dreamhost’s well-publicized problems during the last three weeks of July weren’t enough to frustrate a shared web hosting customer such as myself, with a single humble domain hosting a couple of lightly-used blogs and a photo gallery, lately … Continue reading →

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You guessed it, more coffee!

Posted on 2006-08-13 by frank

The density of coffee shops in our little town continues to increase, to the point where it’s getting silly. Just this morning we drove by our nice local wine shop, and noticed the retail space next door appears to be … Continue reading →

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Building and Testing Darwin Calendar Server

Posted on 2006-08-11 by frank

Since I first checked this out on Tuesday, they’ve updated a couple of configuration files and, more importantly, added a README so I know how to build it. It’s also nice to see at least one or two people have … Continue reading →

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Darwin Calendar Server

Posted on 2006-08-08 by frank

I can’t imagine I’m alone in the desire to run Darwin Calendar Server on Panther or Tiger. I also can’t imagine I’m alone in being disappointed at the apparent lack of production-quality clients. Finally, how about faster hosting for this … Continue reading →