Parsing the SXSW Twitter Stream for Fun
Over the weekend I decided to toss together a simple twitter stream monitoring app that would capture SXSW tweets. I wanted to build on some of what I learne...
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Using Daemon-Kit and RobustThread to Build Ruby Daemons
On a number of occasions I have found myself needing to assemble a daemon process for some type or processing done using Ruby. Each time I roll things a litt...
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Fedora 12 Bootable Root EBS on EC2
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PHP MySQLi and Multiple Prepared Statements
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