Utter Ramblings

Job Available: PHP Web Developer

Jason — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:40:42 +0000

I've got a permanent PHP Development position available at work. If you (or someone you know) has the skills below and are within commuting distance to Malvern, PA 19355, or are willing to relocate at your own expense within the next month or so, please use the comment form on the About page to contact [...]

Mobile site now available

Jason — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:17:37 +0000

A couple days ago I noticed that this site didn't really lend itself to a mobile browser. Not sure why Wordpress doesn't include a mobile theme, but anyway, that's fixed now, thanks to a mobile-optimized theme and a plugin that automatically switches you based on your browser identification (no separate URL required). If you should [...]

MySQL Upgraded to 5.0.86

Jason — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:43:13 +0000

According to the MySQL web site, 5.0.86 has been available since September 9th. I honestly have no idea why, just last week, I built packages for 5.0.84 rather than this newest version. Anyway, the repos have been updated with packages for 5.0.86 and I made a small change so I believe these should also update [...]

Just about everything updated (including the site)

Jason — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:40:17 +0000

Alright, just about every package in the repo was just updated. Some significantly, others not so much, but the ones people are likely to care about are there. MySQL is now up to 5.0.84, PHP is up to 5.2.11, and httpd is up to 2.2.13.

Not dead, just hibernating (like a bear)

Jason — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:52:11 +0000

Ok, maybe not like a bear. Bears eat a bunch before they sleep and wake up lighter. I, on the other hand, have put on about 10 lbs over the past year (need to spend more time at the gym and less time at the office). Oh, and bears don't do anything while hibernating, whereas [...]

MySQL 5.0.54 respin (to 5.0.54a)

Jason — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:00:30 +0000

Just a quick note, I did a respin of MySQL 5.0.54 with a patch for bug #33814. This wasn't really necessary since my binaries use OpenSSL rather than yaSSL (and the vulnerability is with the bundled yaSSL) but I know that quite a few people download my source RPMs and rebuild them, so I [...]

Busy week… Got Engaged!

Jason — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:34:47 +0000

Yeah, I know, I've been a bit lax in posting over the past week. I tried to keep up with answering questions and comments but it was a low priority... In any case, last Saturday I proposed to Dot, my girlfriend of 7 years, and she said yes! No plans for a wedding [...]

Recent repo updates: ModSecurity, XCache, httpd

Jason — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:43:30 +0000

I've been a bit lax over the past week or so, but there's been a few packages I've updated since the last post. On January 8th I updated XCache to 1.2.2. On January 15th I updated mod_security to eliminate that config bug that affected some 32-bit users. Finally, yesterday, January 22nd, I [...]

Upgrading to MySQL 5.0.54 on RHEL and CentOS

Jason — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:17:29 +0000

It's been a while (3 months) since I've posted a MySQL update. The Enterprise release of 5.0.50, the Community release of 5.0.51, and the Enterprise release of 5.0.52 all refused to pass the testing at the end of the build process. Thankfully though, they got that worked out (MySQL bug 33050), so I'm [...]

MySQL, ModSecurity updated

Jason — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:23:05 +0000

I forgot to mention, but I updated a couple packages the end of last week. ModSecurity (mod_security) was updated to 2.1.4 and MySQL 5.0.48 (still haven't gotten 5.0.50 or 5.0.51 to pass testing) was rebuilt to add the cluster components ('mysql-cluster').