Its a no brainer, but some what disappointing. Recently NASA had one of its GRAIL space ships witness "The Dark Side of the Moon." Unfortunately there was no space bridge or lost space ship.

This to some of us Scifi junkies means there will not be a robot Apocalypse any time soon...

It does however mean there is some science research, and some short video...

I have always been a bit of a space nut. Growing up I had my room decked out in NASA stuff. Between having a live size Astronaut poster on my wall (Up until it started scaring me...) Blow up plants hanging from my ceiling... etc...

Needless to say when NASA releases pictures from space especially like this I get a little excited.

Denial of Service Attacks or (DoS Attacks) or (DDoS Attacks) are a common battle in the web world. They involve a repeated ping or call on a server. The goal is to make the server/website unavailable.

I do my best to keep up to date on the latest hacks and not to mention old hacks resurfacing. One of these issues seems to be coming up again. And that has to do with PHP's $_GET, $_REQUEST, and $_POST variables.

These are excellent ways of creating heavy loads on a server if the maxium allowed variables is to high. Not to mention if each one of those variables is not limited it could potentially unleash a lethal Denial of Service attack on a victim hosing and destroying there CPU's.

A friend and collague of mine spent the better part of a week. Or for good ole time's sake a "Get Married Two Week's." On this article. I am still working on my article that will show all the main revisions of getmarried.com, but until then please enjoy his article.

Tedlee.net

He really does do a good job, without making to many punches, but in truth being honest. There was so much more drama that happened in between each event, but he does a really good job summarizing the reasons why Get Married Media, Inc closed.

It sadden's me to find out a company I recently just left will be closing down most of its major operations today. The rest will follow on December 16th of this month. I had worked for them for over 3 years starting as a base level web developer and grew into a Lead Senior Web Developer. Over the years they definitely had there bumps in the road. It is unfortunate that they could not make it past what was always told to us. "We are not going anywhere." Taylor Corporation assured us that we were a center product and that we were a necessity.

Unfortunately GM is coming to a close and the work I had done over the last three years will now be gone forever.

I am trying to keep this going with new things that I do every so often. Along with helpful tidbits that I run into.

So here is a list of upcoming articles.

1. Alternative Hosting Solutions / Website Hosting Solutions.
2. Alternative HTTP Servers (Other than Apache and Tomcat.)
3. CSS3 Animations with JavaScript
4. GDFonts... Converting text to an image. (I use this on the side bar of the site.)
5. Social Network Plugins
6. Voting Systems (The good the bad and the ugly...) "This one will probably be December before I get to it."
7. And so much more than  I can recall at the moment also!

So I realize its been a few days sense I last posted. But I promise Ill have something to post soon. I am currently working on a entry/vote contest for GetMarried.com. Once I am done with this ill have some more to write about. It is utilizing some CSS3 tricks along with JavaScript to animate portions of it.

Along with this I am working on a small side project that will create sitemaps and even give detailed reports on your site. I have built the crawler portion, but thinking I am going to minimize the sitemaping element so I can make it for free. While I will make the reporting parts a paid element.

Lately I have had "caching" on the brain and have been working on a decent way of caching.

So far I have found that caching is obviously faster and in XML format makes it really easy to iterate through in Object format.

My methods so far are

1. Checking a database table for current cached item information.
2. If it has an expiration date or does not exist the feed needs to be cached.
3. If needs to be cached - Caching will grab the feed via curl, fopen, or file_get_contents()
4. Feed will then be stored in a file in a specific directory on the server. 
5. Database will either be updated or inserted with feed information.

Few updates to the site -

1. Added social media to the site such as facebook, twitter, linkedin, and google plus.
2. Added drop down menu for my personal information.
3. Fixed an issue when I would input a code example any time I would have to edit the post I would have to almost rewrite the example.

Much more to come...

Finally I have recreated my website. It is using a content system I created from the ground up. I will be writing more on this system in the future. A small list of features this system can do:

• Manage Multiple Sites in one.
• Member Registration
• Banners
• Page Control / SEO
• And so much more...