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Chicago Open Data at Work
A few years ago Blagica Bottigliero started the website Gals' Guide as an online forum for young women moving out…
The Power of mod_proxy
The Power of mod_proxy: An Introduction to Proxy Servers and Load Balancers with Apache HTTP Server Presentations slides from…
Adding SQL Server Support in PHP on Linux
Back in July I outlined a method for establishing a SSH tunnel between Linux and Windows machines. The goal of…
Accessing Chicago, Cook and Illinois Open Data via PHP
In Accessing the CTA's API with PHP I outlined a class file I created1 for querying the Chicago Transit Authority's…
Accessing the CTA's API with PHP
Overview Last month the City of Chicago arranged for a Open Data Hackaton in which a collection of programmers gathered…
Chicago's Technology Scene, circa 2011
Roughly this time two years ago, I attended an entrepreneur and startup event in D.C. called Social Matchbox which I…
Establish and Maintain an SSH Tunnel between Linux and Windows
The Situation Over the years, I've worked in numerous computing environments and have come to appreciate heterogeneous systems. In my…
Speaking at ApacheCon NA 2011
At the moment November, and another hockey season, seems a long way off. But I'm already making plans to be…
16 of 20: Personal Artifacts from the Early Years of Linux
As the story goes, in 1991 Linus Torvalds, then a student at the University of Helsinki, began work on…

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