Boris Masis

Ok, so you’re working with Google App Engine, cool. It comes time to deploy your application, and of course you’ve created several application copies in your GAE account to have DEV, QA and PROD versions of your app. But how do you manage the app.yaml file which holds the application identifier? (this determines which version […]

Update: we’ve had some problems where some incorrect tables have been deleted by this script. We haven’t had time to investigate, but for now I don’t recommend using this script as is. Elad posted a small script to delete inactive WordressMU blogs. This can be useful if you run a blog network and want to […]

It’s fairly simple to integrate Google Analytics so that your campaign variables get saved behind the scenes when someone submits your wufoo form. The code is based on the original post at analytics talk, with some small modifications for wufoo. All we need to do is include a small javascript file that will parse our […]

Current versions of Umbraco appear to have a bug that may cause corruption of publishing times and cause documents to re-publish themselves many times over. This can lead to an extremely large CMSPropertyData table and the need for frequent application pool recycles. See http://forum.umbraco.org/yaf_postst4699p2_Extremely-large-Umbraco-database-55GB-table-cmsPropertyData-contains-over-135-million-records.aspx and http://forum.umbraco.org/yaf_postst6564_305-Database-Huge–cmsPropertyData–392MB.aspx for a discussion of the issue. We’ve done several […]

I’m working on a WordPress MU blog network and ran accross the need to change the domain that the blogs are running under. This should actually be a fairly common need, for example, if you copy your PROD environment to QA, you’ll probably want to change the blog url from http://blog.com to http://qa.blog.com. Changing the […]

At Cultural Care Au Pair we use Google Analytics to track the sucess of our campaigns both online and offline. Google provides a nice url builder tool that generates links tagged with our various campaign attributes. Here’s the problem though, the links end up looking like: http://www.culturalcare.com/default.aspx?utm_source=testSource&utm_campaign=testCampaign That’s quite an ugly url for something like […]

Who am I kidding with posts like “Film Recommendation”? I don’t actually like to write updates very much, but here are the things that actually do change around here: photos.borism.net is my friend. refresh a couple of times to see different header images. There are now 202 in rotation. my bookmarks and calendar in the […]

I added some more photos into the header rotation. Mostly they are from Sam and my trip to Spain and Morocco; hit refresh a couple times. 🙂

Film recommendation for everyone: go see word play. It’s a genuinely enjoyable film. After you get back, you can follow up with a nice read.

The internet is so full of good self improvement advice, its scary. In any case, my new alarm time is 5:30 AM thanks to How to Become an Early Riser. Today I got up at that un-godly hour out of my own volition. That means that before work I had time to: sort laundry mail […]