I typically spend my weekends shooting landscape photography or hacking away my newest side project. Trying to start the new year off by killing two birds with one stone, I embarked to build a lightweight lightbox component into my fresh hugo blog.

I want a reusable component, that once complete will allow me to …

East Coast Drupal's guide to camps.

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A sql query to list the size of database tables on a mysql server.

1SELECT concat( table_schema, '.', table_name ) table_name,
2       concat( round( data_length / ( 1024 *1024 ) , 2 ) , 'M' ) data_length,
3       concat( round( index_length / ( 1024 *1024 ) , 2 ) , 'M' ) index_length,
4 …

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 …

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 …