Category Archives: PHP

Web Developer Contractor Rates

Posted on November 18, 2009 by Michael Schurter

We just happened* to start chatting in the #pdxdjango IRC channel on Freenode about what the rates web developer contractors charge today, and I wanted to post my experiences after leaving the contractor world a few months ago after 2 … Continue reading →

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Web Server Quandary

Posted on December 27, 2008 by Michael Schurter

Apache was probably the first Linux application I learned how to configure. However, I’ve gotten a bit frustrated with it recently… The Problem A memory leak. Apache is eating up memory so quickly that I need to restart it every … Continue reading →

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Selling some books

Posted on July 26, 2008 by Michael Schurter

I’m selling some books on Amazon. Here’s the full list that I’m too lazy to link individually (click above instead): 0-262-53170-4 – $16 – Evolution and Human Behavior 0-534-95216-X – $6.35 – Data Structures 0-321-26853-9 – $14 – Succeeding with … Continue reading →

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WordPress Rocks at Updates

Posted on July 15, 2008 by Michael Schurter

I feel I owe it to my friends who put up with my senseless Python fanboying to admit WordPress is not only a great blog engine, but rocks at updates. I just upgraded from 2.5 to 2.6 by doing a … Continue reading →

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Simple WordPress Upgrade Using Subversion

Posted on October 28, 2007 by Michael Schurter

I’ve been using subversion to update WordPress for a few minor revisions now. I simply followed the 2.2 branch and ran… svn up …to update my code. Today I ran… svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/branches/2.3 …followed by visiting the upgrade script page … Continue reading →

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IRC After a 10 Year Hiatus

Posted on September 21, 2007 by Michael Schurter

Its probably been 10+ years since I’ve touched IRC. In the early days of the public Internet, IRC was IM + MySpace + Filesharing, only a lot geekier. Then came ICQ and soon after a flood of IM clients that … Continue reading →

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