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Race Report 2014: Lost Brook Trail Run 5-mile

Apr

6

2014

After a pretty miserable winter here in the Northeast,I was glad to be starting my running season.. This will be my first running race of the 2014 season, and this starts off a pretty busy month of April, with 4 more races scheduled in the coming weekends. This run is through a nature preserve in ...

Inspiring Resume designs :: templates

Mar

28

2014

My sister recently asked me to looked at her resume for some advice on how she could spruce things up. So she sent it over and it seemed fine overall, just your typical chronological list resume with Contact info in the header and then a reverse chronological order of jobs etc… So I said to ...

Using server-side PHP Datatables (grid) with SQLite / MySQL PDO 44

Mar

15

2014

I have been a fan of using datatables for a while and always wanted to generalize the server side example to be able to use SQLite, MySQL or any other PDO supported database. For the longest time in my projects I have used PHP AdoDB as my Database abstraction layer, mostly because it came with ...

How can planes “vanish” in 2014? 1

Mar

8

2014

UPDATE (10/10/2014): PBS Series NOVA did an interesting episode on this topic.. take a look here. Nova: Why Planes Vanish (Video) UPDATE (12/29/2014): Sadly another aircraft has been AirAsia Flight QZ8501, has gone missing, while this incident seems a bit less mysterious than MH370 , it again underscores the need for real-time GPS (Satellite live telemetry systems. ...

Review Android car stereo radio and navigation 112

Jan

24

2014

more Recent Updated Review [icon name=”android” class=”” unprefixed_class=””] For a More current Review, see My Ford Fusion Android Radio Review. My car radio upgrade… What can a $280 buy you? how about an Android car stereo + Navigation, and all the android apps your heart desires. My 40+ minute commute has me in the car ...

Linux backup and rotate script 11

Jan

23

2014

A common task to do with backups is to rotate them , so that you have multiple copies of critical files going back x days. Below is a bash script (Linux command line) that does this. Why Rotate Backups? Why not just one current backup file… The primary reason to have a rotating backup system, ...

PHP backup monitoring and alert script: prevent backup rot… 3

Jan

2

2014

One of the key components with any IT software system is putting together an automated , reliable backup solution. Gone are the days of manually backing up files to a removable media, with our interconnected world we can simply setup some form of cloud back up and go. In a previous post I discussed how ...

Cruises – a few tips 2

Dec

15

2013

Having recently come back from a cruise vacation I can share a few brief tips that can save you a few bucks and make for a more enjoyable trip. Modern cruise ships are really floating 4/5 star hotels in the ocean. The ship we went on the Allure of the Seas (Royal Caribbean) is the ...