Category Archives: technology

DD-WRT and an Airport Express

I’ve got a several year old Linksys WRT54GL wireless router that I use for my home network. Ever since I’ve had the router, I’ve been running DD-WRT on it, which is great. The new firmware is super stable, has a … Continue reading

GCalendar Reminders

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 … Continue reading

Benchmarking Redis and PRedis

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 … Continue reading

GMail IMAP Backup With mbsync on Ubuntu

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 … Continue reading

Cache Miss

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 … Continue reading

Finals Season

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 … Continue reading