Monthly Archives: November 2008

Exim4 with DKIM and conditional greylisting

Exim4 in recent Debian GNU/Linux Lenny — Debian testing as of this writing — is quite easy to configure to use DKIM. The original implementation, DomainKeys, you’ve probably heard of. DKIM is the recent incarnation of DKIM and the one you’d want to implement today.
Building DKIM aware Exim4
First, you’ll want to build a [...]

Amazon’s Call Me Support Option

I haven’t ever had to call Amazon before, but apparently at some point they implemented a callback feature as the preferred method of contacting support by phone. It’s provided by a service called eStara. It seemed like an interesting idea, at first. The touted benefits, that the support representative always knows who [...]

If you jam money into everyone’s pocket…

Alan D. Levenson thinks:

“The Fed is going to ram liquidity into the financial system whether it is asking for it or not, just going out and buying assets and printing money in order to do it,” said Alan D. Levenson, chief economist at T. Rowe Price. “If you jam money into everyone’s pocket, they will [...]

ExtJS and Observable

With ExtJS, any class you create can have access to the ExtJS event model by simplying extending Ext.util.Observable. But then how do you actually use events?

High level overview of ExtJS events
Custom events in ExtJS
Observable Tutorial/Example
Singleton Observable
Subscribe to app level events demonstrates using Observable to listen to app level events
Another example of app level events.

Firefox 3 crashes constantly

Since at least Firefox 3.0.3, Firefox seems to crash almost daily for me. And that’s with only four or five tabs open, typically, and a lifetime of less than four hours. Sad. Firefox 2 rarely crashed for me.

Epson lawsuit effecting generic ink cartridge supply

I’d been buying from abcink for ages, but recently — actually it seems last year — Epson was successful in stopping the manufacturers of many of the generic Epson compatible cartridges from importing any into the US, to my great disappointment. I’ve found a couple vendors that still offer Epson generic ink, though. [...]

LDAP for centralized contact management

I initially visited the concept of using LDAP as a centralized address book store for contacts back in 2005, but was ultimately disappointed with client side support. I finally have actual need of such a solution, I am more interested in finding a functional solution. In three years, the situation obviously hasn’t improved [...]

Staging WordPress for content review

I don’t think there’s a plugin as of yet, but there are a couple of links worthy of notice.

Creating a Staging WordPress Blog for Testing
Allow siteurl and home to be defined as constants in wp-config
Wordpress Deployment Strategy Plugin

I’d probably bootstrap such a setup the same way described in the first link, then do something close [...]

DAViCal over SSL via Apache mod_proxy

If you’re stuck in a single IP world, you’ll find you frequently need to mount various Web services on top of your SSL host to ensure communications are encrypted. In many ways, SSL serves as a poor man’s VPN. (Although OpenVPN is ridiculously simple to set up, even with a certificate per client, [...]

Pitching Pitney Bowes into the trash

Few companies offer less value than Pitney Bowes. We’re renting what is essentially a glorified ink printer for $90 a quarter. It costs us roughly $200 a year in ink. Each time we refill the postage, it costs $6.99 for the privilege of using a credit card and $7.99 for the new [...]