About The Site
My name is Steven Merrill. I'm a classical singer and technologist based in New York, NY.
This site is my personal blog. My initial post lays out this site's scope and also the etymology of the name, in case you're interested.
You can find my work a number of other places on the web:
- I write technical articles about Drupal on Tree House Agency's blog.
- Brian McMurray and I wrote web development articles (often about Drupal, Flash, and the mobile web) at cascadingStyle.
- I put up a personal portfolio in mid-2008, but it hasn't been updated recently.
- My singing portfolio was a great proof-of-concept of a Drupal-driven Flash site with full Google-indexable content underneath, but has similarly been somewhat neglected.
- I microblog on Twitter and ident.ica under the moniker 00sven.
Thanks for stopping by!
Microblog Updates
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Very heartened by this news. http://ping.fm/WiDtS2 weeks 2 days ago
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PHP segfaulting for all your Drupal developers on Windows? Turn off CSS aggregation. Only took 8 hours to track that down. Ugh.2 weeks 2 days ago
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Technology. Fail.2 weeks 2 days ago
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GNU Screen. Wow. I should have become a Linux nerd a long time ago.2 weeks 3 days ago
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Over lunch in the UWS Apple Store, a Blackberry hits the lower level floor with a thud. Was it a slip or an overzealous iPhone switcher?2 weeks 4 days ago
Linkblog
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Useful usermod-like command for OS X.
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Handy way to generate all the alter statements to change table storage engines (although I usually convert the other way.)
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How to debug connection problems when mounting a samba share.
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An interesting way to simulate non-standard behavior for webapp testing.
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Awesome infographic: from MySQL query to Mongo Map/Reduce.
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Just what it says. A complete spec sheet on which mobile browsers support what.
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Cool blog with Lithium framework goodness.
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More info on a quicker-moving branch of Mongo support for the Play! web framework.