I’ve been mulling over this blog post in my mind for quite awhile. I’ve been working exclusively for distributed companies since 2008. Also know as telecommuting and virtual workforce, it basically is when you have employees working for you regardless of location. Whether it is home, a co-working space, or another office space they prefer, …

I’ve had a few requests to share my Nagios SMS notifications using Twilio. I’m almost embarrassed to share them, since they are so dead simple. There was another plugin out there to do the same, but it was a lot more advanced and more work to setup, so I wrote my own in PHP. In …

Today I had an issue where I was trying to debug a problem with an nginx configuration, I came up with a simple trick. One of the hardest parts of nginx configurations, especially with rewrites, is you might not know which “location” directive is not working as expected. In PHP, sometimes you would just add …

My letter to Senator Lee: Senator Lee, My name is Justin Carmony, and I am the C.T.O. for Dating DNA, LLC, a company that makes iPhone Apps. This is my first time writing a senator, but I feel it is important to convey my thoughts on SOPA and PIPA. We have struggled with people downloading …

I’ve come across an awesome combination of tools for managing PHP Workers, and thought I’d share. Why Workers? Sometimes there are situations when you want to parallel process things. Other times you might have a list of tasks to accomplish, and you don’t want to make the user wait after pressing a button. This is …

As I look back on 2011, its been a pretty fun year technology & work wise. While I have a few more draft posts to finish up, I thought I’d hit some highlights from the past year. PHP Its been a fun year with the Utah PHP Usergroup. I look forward to it each month, …

I have a very good friend, Daniel Allen, who is living in China for 18 months for his work. It’s been very interesting to hear about how life is like in China, and how the culture is “on the other side of the world.” Well, this year for Christmas, Daniel wanted to help raise up …

The great guys at Pole Vault Media and WordPress.tv have put up a video of my Demystifying CSS & WordPress talk.

While I do work some in the Video Game Industry, I don’t write about it very often. However, I thought I would write some thoughts on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3: Ultimately, I’m approaching it with a great deal of hesitation. Here is why: When you start up a Video Game, much like watching …

If you want to stress test your application, the quickest and best way to do so is with siege. From the siege website: Siege is an http load testing and benchmarking utility. It was designed to let web developers measure their code under duress, to see how it will stand up to load on the …