by jake | Sep 17, 2022 | LAMP Administrator, Web Entrepreneur
I first started registering domain names and using shared hosting in 2000 after graduating from college. In 2005, I decided it was worth paying the extra money for a VPS Server – both to gain root access and to get off of shared hosting. Honestly, I mostly did...
by jake | Feb 9, 2022 | Laravel
Like most, I have been eagerly awaiting the release of Laravel 9! Yesterday I tweeted about my first Laravel 9 install: ➜ curl -s "https://t.co/A8BysypaTJ" | bash Creating a "laravel/laravel" project at "./app-pricing" Installing...
by jake | Jan 27, 2022 | Tech Journal
Figured I should start putting this to good use again to help get me back on track with work. Reading: Up Next:always be testing: The Complete Guide to Google Website Optimizer Finished Reading past two weeks:Testing Business IdeasValue Proposition DesignBusiness...
by jake | Sep 18, 2021 | WordPress
Last night I stayed up later than normal trying to plan what I needed to get done before the end of the calendar year in preparation for 2022. I have decided to delve back into WordPress so that I can get back to publishing content on the regular, and investigate...
by jake | Sep 16, 2021 | WordPress
After fighting for well over a year to use something newer and cooler as the software for my blog, I’m back to WordPress. Again! I was finding that not having as cleanly polished a product as WordPress meant that I was spending more time fidgeting with kludges than...
by jake | Dec 31, 2020 | Uncategorized
2020 was the year of getting these fucking monkeys off my back! CPTSD / AgoraphobiaVPS development pipelineLaravel & VueManifested a carSolopreneurCPTSD/Agoraphobia In 2020, I entered year 5 of CPTSD recovery. I felt pretty shitty about it being 5 years and not...
by jake | Jan 5, 2020 | Tech Journal
I am now at the 3 year mark since trying to break back into the “booming” tech industry as a web developer, web server admin, and dba. Hard to believe this year is 20 years since graduating college! Three years ago, I worked three different jobs: one was...
by jake | Nov 27, 2018 | Web Entrepreneur
Alright. Now that it’s almost the end of November, it must be time for work year 2018 to start, right? In terms of my career, I have gained a lot more knowledge, became that much more organized, and knocked a few long standing items off of my massive to do...
by jake | Oct 19, 2018 | MySQL
Once upon a time, I moved a MySQL database and the stored procedures stopped working. The website relying on them was effectively crippled because it was a data-driven website. When exporting a MySQL database in phpMyAdmin, there are Procedure options under Custom. ...
by jake | Jun 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
A lot has happened since I last wrote. The ups: House is *finally* up for sale Gifted a bamboo Uncaged Ergonomic Standing Desk Move back to the coast is within sight! Read several books on cafe patio: Debugging Teams, The Senior Software Engineer, Computer Science...
