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Server Farm Setup for Knife Depot

July 2nd, 2015 (5 minute read)

OK… the title is a little misleading.  This post actually discusses the setup for my entire company, Internet Retail Connection.  We run a few other sites, like Picnic World and Backyard Chirper, but Knife Depot is our bread and butter. A very abridged background story is that we run our own ecommerce websites on a custom platform developed over the last 10 years.  It started…

Storing Symfony Sessions in MongoDB

July 2nd, 2015 (1 minute read)

This post was written about Symfony 2.7. It may or may not be correct for your version of Symfony. By default, Symfony stores session data using the default handler, which uses the server filesystem. This is fine in most cases, but if you need your app to work on multiple web servers behind a load balancer, the default handler won’t work. There are a few options, but I will…

Building Our Minimalist Home Gym

October 4th, 2013 (5 minute read)

I’ve been lifting weights for about 1.5 years now and my wife has recently shown an interest in starting a similar strength program (no ladies, lifting weights will not make you bulky).  Because she is a pediatrician and doesn’t really have time to go to the gym, she hasn’t been able to follow a program regularly.  We talked about it and decided to cash in some credit card…

Fat Loss Results: 2.5 Years Later

July 25th, 2013 (3 minute read)

IMG_0262 Before Photos (215-220lbs): Before After Photos (160lbs): after How I Did It – The Basics I pretty much did everything imaginable, but at the end of the day, I found these elements are key to losing weight in a sustainable way: Track Your Food Intake – I keep a food diary (I used loseit.com and myfitnesspal.com) and log everything that I eat.  You need to first see how…

Embryo Adoption Results

May 30th, 2013 (1 minute read)

Today, Adrienne went to our local fertility clinic in Lafayette to take a blood test to determine if she was pregnant from last week’s embryo transfer. Unfortunately, the test came back negative. We are both really sad and disappointed. We are not sure what our next step will be.

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