Monthly Archives: April 2010

Pylons + FastCGI on Hostgator

By Mark | Published: April 18, 2010

This article can only be considered a work in progress; it took many tries to get it right and I don’t remember the exact steps. So I’ll explain the process as best possible, and please leave comments if I’m missing anything. My plan was to get a Pylons app running on a simple shared hosting account. [...]

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Modifying your shower head to increase water pressure

By Mark | Published: April 18, 2010

This information is NOT intended to maximize blast velocity of your shower head. It’s meant for people who live in apartments on prehistoric water lines where shower pressure is a mere dribble. Here’s a quick trick to modify your shower head. Most apartments in downtown Toronto (most rental apartments for that matter) use this ultra basic head: They [...]

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Quebec Maple Wine

By Mark | Published: April 8, 2010

I’ve always wanted to make a maple wine. It’s the Canadian spin on a traditional Viking mead — but using maple syrup instead of honey. Maple is full of sucrose and all ready to be fermented into delicious booze. It’s also worth noting that when the zombie apocalypse drops and we’re all living in tree forts [...]

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Update your website via SMS

By Mark | Published: April 5, 2010

This is done with old technology, but it still has such a wow factor I want to write about it. You can easily update a website via SMS. The middleman is Twitter. Set up a Twitter account (make it private if you want, but better keep it open!) Set up your Twitter account to receive SMS text messages. [...]

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No Name Berry Shine

By Mark | Published: April 4, 2010

For the first experiment in my newly founded Clinton Brewery, I turned to the lowest common denominator. It’s been years since I last brewed and I wanted to re-familiarize myself with the process. I wanted to study the prowess of a common yeast strain (EC-1118) at various gravity levels. I wanted to assess the viability of [...]

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CakePHP + Wordpress

By Mark | Published: April 2, 2010

So this is a very common issue. You’re building a site in CakePHP. Client wants a blog. Why code a blog from scratch when you can just use Wordpress? But then you have them play nice together within the same environment. There are already several articles online about how to accomplish this, but here’s my particular [...]