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GCalendar Reminders

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

Google recently added the ability to create a birthday calendar. However, Google didn’t give one the ability to send reminders for the events on that calendar. This is the same thing that Apple has done for years with their Address Book and iCal integration. And I hate missing someone’s birthday when I don’t happen to [...]


Benchmarking Redis and PRedis

Friday, January 15th, 2010

At work, I recently was tasked with looking into some NoSQL solutions for upcoming projects. For various reasons, I focused on the open source Redis project. Redis looks to be adding new features quickly and seemed to be a great potential solution. I then started looking into PHP clients as our current environment is mostly [...]


GMail IMAP Backup With mbsync on Ubuntu

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Well, it sure has been a while since my last post on here. So I thought I’d kick it off with a discussion of how I went about getting my email backed up. First, a description of my situation. I run all my email through GMail. I enjoy the interface and the fact that it [...]