monday Monday If someone asks you to pick them up from the airport, do you assume they're flying in from somewhere, or is it just me that does that?
php 5.3 PHP and MongoDB traffic over SSL So I'm writing this in hopes of saving someone an hour or two. I recently upgraded our development server from CentOS 6.8 to 6.9 and PHP 5.3 to 5.6.
DIY Patio v1.75 Patio v1.5 is on the verge of completion. I took the opportunity to get a head start on v1.75. Sneak peak of sorts
DIY Quick Soil pH Test So I wanted to test the soil pH of a couple places in my yard. Flowering plants tend to be pretty reliable on the pH of the soil. The flowers of most plants
Smoker update Its working!! There's maybe a couple of weekends worth of putting the exterior on and it'll be one hundo. Maybe in that time I'll find thw time to post a how to, up
brick smoker STEEL DAY! Man I love metal work. Today is steel day. I'm fabricating the doors for the smoker, so i felt maybe this would make a good teaser. I'm not showing any photos or the
Kenda Delashaw Kenda Delashaw We lost my mother on September 21, 2014 in a motorcycle accident. She was returning from a rally in Riudoso, New Mexico when they lost contol on the bike due to wet roads.
Directory Paths Why the heck do paths have to use "/" or "\"! Lets all "get on the same page". ba dump tsssh
esxi ESXI Woes Patio is under way still. Stop asking. Srsly. I had set backs with time and weather, then I came upon a bit of a construction conundrum that I'll go over when it's done,
DIY Patio 2.0/Coffee Table Project patio is well underway. Part 1 of 3 of the smoker is constructed, and curing. I'll post a full summary after its completion. With rain in the forecast for the next foreseeable
Pergola Patio Approved Currently we still live in an HOA, but the neighbors in the area seem to agree it's useless since there is no common areas so it may be dissolved soon. Still, I applied
SaferInternetDay Safer Internet Day Google is giving away 2 gigabytes of drive storage for their annual security checkup today. It takes a couple minutes to go through and verify your devices and permissions and can be used
Ember Self Study https://www.ludu.co/course/ember In a hiatus with the blog for now. I've been incredibly busy for not having anything to do. Strange. Checking out some ember practice ^ see there. I've
Denton Fios Outage Denton's Verizon Fios is down. I may have to find some public internet service to push changes to the site today. Could just do it locally and push it all through later as
Exploring So I got an email the other day saying my site is official AdSense approved. I'm not to happy with how the banner positions itself though. It's a responsive banner so it adjusts
ghost blog menu button ERROR!!! I was made aware of a bug with the menu button not functioning. It works on safari but is unresponsive on other browsers. I wouldn't expect any of the changes I had made
googlefamous Google I've added some of Google's code to the site. Down at the bottom you may notice a translator if you'd like to learn a new language. Photo time. I'm going to do what
Stamped concrete Projects I haven't made any changes yet to the site, I've been distracted with other projects around the house. I browse and research while I'm at the gym looking for inspiration though. I've made
bitcoin Spam Alert I just got a cold storage device for the experimental cryptocurrency Bitcoin. I find it interesting. There's some good documentaries out there about Bitcoin, theres some fancy widgets for it I will probably
mattdelashaw About This Blog Well I decided I wanted a website to flex my programming skills. With guidance from a friend, https://www.sethbrasile.com, I decided the format of my website would be a blog. Most