Author Archives: Bob Somers

Dual videocards without SLI

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Bob Somers

I just recently upgraded my workstation to a quad monitor setup, because you can never have enough screen real estate. I originally had a dual-monitor setup on a single videocard, an nVidia GeForce 8800 GT. A friend of mine sold … Continue reading →

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Awesome regex test tool

Posted on September 4, 2009 by Bob Somers

So I’m working with a friend to develop a regex that matches something out of an API response, when we really wish we could quickly prototype a regex. Now, there are plenty of tools to do this, some are even … Continue reading →

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Know your text editor

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Bob Somers

Let’s examine why it’s important as a programmer to really know your text editor, but in a different light that usual. Traditionally programmers are concerned with knowing all the tricks of their editor so that they can make use of … Continue reading →

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Ban programmers, not functions

Posted on July 7, 2009 by Bob Somers

So my daily travels around the intertubes landed me on a very interesting blog post by Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle team (which they call SDL, not to be confused with the arguably more useful Simple DirectMedia Layer library). The post … Continue reading →

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SSL detection by PHP scripts run through FastCGI on nginx

Posted on July 3, 2009 by Bob Somers

How’s that title for acronym soup? I ran across this issue when playing around with nginx. I was trying to set up phpMyAdmin for SQL administration, but ran into a rather peculiar issue. To explain the problem, let me give … Continue reading →

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