Welcome
You've reached the website of Judd Vinet, an open source programmer, system administrator, and web developer.
A bit about myself...
- I live in Halifax, NS, Canada.
- I do web programming and system administration to pay the bills.
- I like to hack on open source projects.
- I'm a linux nerd.
- I play guitar in a jam band with some friends.
- I like to swim and frolic in the outdoors.
- I have a beautiful girlfriend and a small dog.
Recent Links
- Javascript closures in for-loops
- Less: More than CSS
- Why is programming fun?
- Wondermill Crew at SXSW
- Thru-You
- Fast polling using C, memached, nginx and libevent
Recent Blog Posts
- Migrating to Android
- Rocket Stick on Arch Linux
- Phatso
- Clean Switch Blocks
- Working Backwards: New Pronto Data Models
Recent Tweets
- juddv: This angers me. http://is.gd/1mz0I
- juddv: @chartjes :set ft=ruby will probably do it.
- juddv: @tobbik The "soapy heels" part really speaks to me. ;)
- juddv: RT @thejonotron Time to switch your doctypes folks, XHTML 2 looks dead. Long live HTML5 http://www.w3.org/News/2009#item119
- juddv: Office staff strip naked to improve morale http://is.gd/1lD92
- juddv: Canada last among G8 on climate change action. http://is.gd/1ltId
- juddv: Thinking I should sell my good sunglasses to buy another rain coat. Apparently I won't need them in Halifax this summer.
- juddv: Very happy to see closures in PHP 5.3 http://php.net/releases/5_3_0.php
- juddv: The Vendor Client relationship - in real world situations. If you're a consultant, watch it. http://bit.ly/H9zm6
- juddv: @tobbik Oooh, very nice.
Recent Tech Tips
- Build PHP as a static binary
- Regular Expression to Validate an Email Address
- Regular Expression to Validate a URL
- Convert a static library (.a) to a shared object (.so)
- Setup your own Certificate Authority (CA)
- Protect a web area with Basic HTTP Authentication
- Reuse an existing ssh connection
- Setup SMTP AUTH and TLS with Exim
- How to avoid ISP blocks on port 25 (SMTP)
- How to Balance Database Load Across Multiple MySQL Servers
