This guide is for the programmer who needs to write a quick and dirty PHP extension. A PHP extension is a module for PHP written in C. You may wish to write such a module to expose library functionality only available in C, or to optimize certain key sections in your execution path.
As I have […]

If you’re in the initial phases of setting up a new software project, one of the first things you should be thinking about is a project collaboration site. A good project site enables you to do at least two things:

Collect design documents and documentation in one place
Track and assign tasks/bugs/issues to developers

If used correctly, the […]

A while back we wrote an article called What’s Your Utilization, Kenneth. In that article we talked about a really cool web-app called Cacti. Today we will take this one step further by describing how to monitor remote servers using SSH tunnels.
In the scope of this article, we assume that you already have one […]

Yesterday we migrated Playing With Wire from our old FreeBSD Jail to a brand new VMware Virtual Server. The new server has a much faster CPU and much more RAM, which we hope will decrease the load-time.
The migration itself went smooth without any downtime for PWW. If you discover something that appears to be […]

Today WireLoad is releasing SwtCallback, a Java library for SWT that enables callbacks for event handling. SwtCallback is inspired by the Swing enhancer Buoy by Peter Eastman.
If you know you want this, just skip to the bottom of this post for the download link. Otherwise, read on and I’ll explain the reason we wrote this […]