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  • 2019 East Coast Drupal Camp Guide

    Feb 1, 2019  | 1 min read
     | Chris Zietlow Profile Image Chris Zietlow

    Recovering Software Engineer, Philomath, Shitty Photographer, Technologist, believes the oxford comma isn't optional.

    East Coast Drupal's guide to camps. Event Start Date End Date CFP Deadline Locale Drupal Camp New Jersey 02/02/2019 02/02/2019 Closed Princeton, NJ Florida Drupal Camp 02/15/2019 02/17/2019 Closed Orlando, FL Drupal Con 04/08/2019 04/12/2019 Closed Seattle, WA Drupaldelphia 05/10/2019 05/10/2019 Closed …

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  • Find mysql Table Size

    Sep 22, 2017  | 2 min read
     | Chris Zietlow Profile Image Chris Zietlow

    Recovering Software Engineer, Philomath, Shitty Photographer, Technologist, believes the oxford comma isn't optional.

    TL;DR A sql query to list the size of database tables on a mysql server. …

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  • WTF is Sculpin

    Mar 7, 2017  | 5 min read
     | Chris Zietlow Profile Image Chris Zietlow

    Recovering Software Engineer, Philomath, Shitty Photographer, Technologist, believes the oxford comma isn't optional.

    WTF is Sculpin

    Sculpin is a static site generator written in PHP. And WTF is a static site generator? It's a tool for generating html files using raw data like TWIG and markdown. It's great for a website that has content that doesn’t need to be updated by multiple users on a regular basis, authentication, search, or any logic that …

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  • An Impostor's Blog

    Feb 2, 2017  | 6 min read
     | Chris Zietlow Profile Image Chris Zietlow

    Recovering Software Engineer, Philomath, Shitty Photographer, Technologist, believes the oxford comma isn't optional.

    An Impostor's Blog

    After a year and a half, I'm finally getting around to launching my new blog. That's a lot of time for a small static website. That should mean that this blog is packed full of innovative technologies, captivating designs, and polished features, right? It has to be perfect. Thankfully this is not perfect, or so I keep …

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  • Getting started with Upstart

    Oct 17, 2013  | 2 min read
     | Chris Zietlow Profile Image Chris Zietlow

    Recovering Software Engineer, Philomath, Shitty Photographer, Technologist, believes the oxford comma isn't optional.

    Upstart is an event based monitoring system for monitoring and controlling services and daemons. Upstart is meant to be a replacement for the older System V init.d start up scripts with better optimizations in parrelism and boot time. It can be used to run serveral one off tasks, like that of any shell script, or can …

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  • Fun linux Terminal Tools

    May 31, 2012  | 1 min read
     | Chris Zietlow Profile Image Chris Zietlow

    Recovering Software Engineer, Philomath, Shitty Photographer, Technologist, believes the oxford comma isn't optional.

    Anyone with a UNIX based machine (Linux or MAC) has access to a terminal. Anyone with a Linux computer has almost undoubtedly dabbled with command line utilities for some period of time. Here are a few little known terminal tools that I found interesting. I'll give examples of the tools, though it's worth noting that …

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  • Scrivener

    Jan 1, 0001  | 1 min read
     | Chris Zietlow Profile Image Chris Zietlow

    Recovering Software Engineer, Philomath, Shitty Photographer, Technologist, believes the oxford comma isn't optional.

    Scrivener

    Introduction A utility to convert ripped DVD and Blu-ray media MKV into transcoded MP4 containers

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