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There are times when you need a “raw” SOAP client to see the exact messages being sent to and from a Soap Sever. This is especially important for developers who are hosting a soap server for an API. In my example, PHP was throwing an error, but I couldn’t see exactly what it was. The …

It still amazes me the randomness people can find online. On LifeHacker they posted how you can make your OS X computer sing: You already know that typing say something into the Mac’s Terminal will literally make your Mac say “something.” The UsingMac blog posts a few more nifty text-to-speech commands that will make your …

I read an article today about Palm on Slashdot. Here is the summary: Palm’s fourth quarter results came out a few days ago, and they were not pretty: Palm reported losses of 40 cents per share, for a quarterly loss of $43.4 million. It’s the fourth straight quarter of losses, and it’s clear that the …

This weekend I was in Las Vegas for the LT Pact (you can read about that more below) and I was posting on my blog that I was in Las Vegas. A cousin I hadn’t seen for about 5-6 years stumbled upon my blog and let a comment asking how I could possibly come to …

Yesterday while listening to the security panel’s discussion for LT Pact there seemed to be a common theme: end-users want security, but they don’t want to be inconvenienced or do anything to do something about it. It seemed like the only way a person learned about security was when it was too late, they had …

I just left the last session of the LT Pact ’08 conference and it has been fun. I’ve learned a lot and there were a lot of common themes among the conference. I’ll briefly touch on the themes and over the next week or so I’ll be writing more in-depth on each one. Besides, I …

Whew, today was a good day. I took a lot of notes and over the next few days I’ll be blogging on the different topics. Hopefully you’ll enjoy.

We’ve landed and are having a good time. Wrapping on some coding projects before I head off to the meet and greet cocktail party.

I deal with many different servers and it is hard to keep track of which is running which Distro of linux. Here is the quick way to tell: uname -a uname –help You can’t believe how hard it was to find that out.

Well, I’m doing my laundry and getting ready to leave tomorrow for LTPact 2008. I’m looking forward to hearing about new technologies in server hosting. They also have coming several speakers on blogging, including Matt Mullengweg, founder and creator of WordPress. Layered Technologies has been a fantastic sponsor for CEVO.