Tech, filmmaking, & thoughts.
Jacob "Boom Shadow" Tirey
A linux web hosting administrator, a professional production sound man, and a renegade cop without nothing left to lose.... Ok, that last part is made up. In all seriousness, my passion in life is to help people; whether that be with help running their sites or with their productions. The name Boom Shadow was given to me by a great group of filmmakers called Star Wipe Films. back in 2005 and has been with me since. One of these days, I will post the full story, and many more, here. As a side note, I love my mac for video editing, my CentOS for web hosting, and my Windows box for Stepmania. Don't give me any OS hate, cause I don't care :P Also, nano is still the bomb!
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Posts by Jacob "Boom Shadow" Tirey
Assassin’s Creed for Kinect
Apr 1st
Here is the demo video for Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed that my buddy Anibal and I worked on:
That’s right, its an April Fool’s day prank! Anibal and I worked on the visual effects and they used my house for all the Girl gamer party shots (as well as the table crash). It was a ton of fun making it and a lot of work to pump out in only a few short weeks.
Starring: The Frag Dolls
Change a document root on cPanel
Mar 30th
What is the document root?
When you visit a web site, you are accessing a particular folder on the web server. The server knows to only serve up those files located at that folder to incoming visitors. The location of that web folder is called the “Document Root”.
It is similar to using a coat check. You present your ticket to the attendant and they fetch it from the back room. In this metaphor, the coat is the site you want to visit and the attendant is the web server. The visitor doesn’t know the exact location where the coat is More >
How to install PHP memcache
Feb 28th
This guide will help you install PHP Memcache on a CentOS server.
What is PHP memcache?In my previous article, I showed you how to install Memcached, the service daemon. Now, if you would like your PHP software to interface with that daemon, you will want to install a PHP extension for it.
There are actually two separate implementations of a PHP Client that wraps the memcached (daemon); both are provided via the PECL library. One is called ‘memcache’ and the other is called ‘memcached’. I know that it is a little confusing that ‘memcached’ shares the same name as the daemon itself, More >
How to install Memcached
Feb 8th
# Updates # 01/02/13 – Updated RPM locations
This guide will help you setup Memcached on a CentOS server.
What is cachingBefore diving into Memcache specifically, let’s take a step back. What is caching? Why should you care and why should you use it? Caching is used for two very important reasons: to speed up the delivery of the pages and to alleviate system resources. Caching is used to speed up dynamic sites; database driven sites will benefit most form caching. Think about a WordPress site. Each page you visit is not an actually file, but rather an amalgamation of the More >
