This certainly falls under the "more interesting than practical" of things I've done.

Since I've recently aquired a few Raspberry Pi Zero's, I've been playing around with running Nginx and PHP on them, and experimenting with a functional web server on the Raspbian platform

One of the common problems I have when configuring a new server is that I need to install packages I maintain on deb.erianna.com, my personal APT repository. Since I use an ECC signing key , I need to have GNUPG modern installed for my signing key to be recognized by apt

Mastering Yii is now Published

After several months of hard work and writing I’m very pleased to announce that my second book, Mastering Yii is now available on Amazon!

The book outlines several different Yii projects that you can build and expand upon to create awesome Yii web applications

The White House recently responded to a "We the People" petition asking those who participated to share their thoughts on strong encryption. The following is my response

With the most recent announcement of PHP7, several individuals have asked me what the best way is to both try out the production release of PHP7 and how they can quickly explore my PHP and Nginx packages. Starting today I'm happy to announce that I am now providing [Vagrant Cloud](https://atlas

The PHP Group recently announced the immediate availability of PHP 7.0.0. I’m proud to announce the immediate availability of PHP-FPM 7.0.0 which is hosted on deb.erianna.com.

For a list of changed in PHP 7.0.0 please read the [change log](https://secure

One of my favorite toys to play with when I was a kid were Legos. As a kid I remember seeing the incredible 6286-1: Skull's Eye Schooner kit, but not being able to purchase it as Lego discontinued it

Yii2 Analytics.js Integration

Today I'm happy to announce a new extension for Yii2 called yii2-analytics.js.

This extension provides Analytics.js integration for [Yii Framework 2](www.yiiframework

Today I'd like to announce a new experimental protocol I've been designing called Modern Mail Exchange Protocol (MMXP). MMXP is a new messaging protocol designed to transfer electronic messages between users in a secure and distributed way. This document outlines the MMXP and related protocols, syntax and recommended configuration

My personal PGP/GPG key has changed. The fingerprint of my new key is 77D4 529F 2CEF B65F 8780 86F1 2875 D7C7 398E CFC4 . For more details view the full post