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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Sunday, January 17th, 2010
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 PHP. [...]
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 is [...]
Saturday, August 9th, 2008
I posted on the 5th about how the travel page now shows all my travels. Well, I also mentioned that the page loads really slow. I’m happy to say that I greatly improved the processing bottleneck that existed. I implemented caching which has sped things up considerably. Previously, the travel page took ~7 seconds. The [...]
Sunday, May 15th, 2005
Well, my 3rd year as a Cal student is about to end. I’m in the middle of finals, 1 down, with three to go, and I’m getting antsy for summer.
To study for the finals, I worked for about 45 minutes the other day trying to get an applescript to work correctly in Adium, my [...]
