I moved to Joplin in March of this year(2011) and until this past sunday everything was perfectly normal. I actually liked the city but it is smaller than most that I have lived in in the past. Just early this week we were rocked ...

I recently wrote an intro To PHP and MongoDB tutorial over at phpfreaks. Check it out if you haven't already. Anyway, I got to tinkering around and decided to write a php script to log apache requests to a MongoDB. This actually ended up ...

Today I read another great article by Annie Duke entitled Implied odds bluff. I completely agree with her on the over use of implied odds and have been guilty of this in the past. What got me away from over using implied odds for situations ...

This is a small validation class that I wrote for a project a long time ago. This currently has validation filters for US phone number format, US zip code format(12345 and 12345-6789 etc) and email addresses. You can pass your own custom validations to ...

This is a Django runserver alternative using twisted.web. I like this method as it is also production worthy. It is very useful for both production and development environments. In my opinion, it is important to develop applications using a similar environment that will be ...

This is a simple adaptation of the poker-eval-webservice for a pylons controller