http://kire.notneb.net who let this idiot out of his cage? Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:01:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Twitter is now my all time favorite Web 2.0 app. I know this is totally a childish moment and a bit of hero worship, but it is still great. http://kire.notneb.net/archives/65 Database backups are not a difficult thing, but they are tedious and only important when there is a crisis at hand. Recently we ran into a situation where backups failed to protect us from some worst practices and we had to scrape together the binlogs and old dumps to resurrect ... http://kire.notneb.net/archives/54 When we talk about modern web APIs we are mostly talking about REST(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REST). In the last couple of years it has easily become more popular than similar layers like XMLRPC and SOAP. While these protocols work in a number of situations many of the popular Web Applications like Flickr have ... http://kire.notneb.net/archives/28 The medical industry has been struggling for years to determine how to exchange patient information in a uniform manner. Every entity has their own method for piecing together the mishmash of data they collect and filing it away for later use. Now, with governement agencies like Medicare/Medicaid (US) pushing hard ... http://kire.notneb.net/archives/41 After the last article, I discovered that the Drupal framework, while it works perfectly within a SSL context provides little in the way of helping developers direct their users into the secure site. In our application we provide some content to the public at large, but we also require the ... http://kire.notneb.net/archives/10 Today we rushed to push out another site for our primary customer's new facility opening tomorrow. Since it's under the same umbrella organization we thought it best to use the subdomain form of the URL, rather than shoehorning it under the primary www site. Of course, within 10 minutes of ... http://kire.notneb.net/archives/9 As much as I love Google's Reader it is far to tempting a toy to leave just laying around to grab my attention at a weak moment. To at least give me some sanity while I worked I wrote this little Greasemonkey script that blocks Greader during my productive hours, ... http://kire.notneb.net/archives/7 So after we purchased Carrie her new laptop (hp 2130us), we found out that it came with a $50 gift card. So as a little Merry Christmas to me I thought I would pick up some variety of Digital Audio Player. Everyone knows the iPod is the heavy ... http://kire.notneb.net/archives/4 After a hiatus of over 3 months I finally brought back the blog. I was tired of paying to host a large noisy machine in my office and didn't want to deal with the headaches of babying the machine and the connection. My father-in-law offered me hosting with his ... http://kire.notneb.net/archives/1