Hayden James

Welcome to thehayden.org

I’ve been a web developer for over 10 years. Currently, I spend most of my time on AltEnergyShift.com a green community – launched early 2011 – where people from around the world create and share in green living and alternative energy discussions.

Over the years, I’ve been involved with 100′s of websites. Here’s a few I previously owned: CoolVibe.com - digital art and inspiration blog, PinStack.com- an online community for smartphone professionals and PureHonda.com - which was a shrine for thousands of enthusiasts.

Thanks for dropping by!

Oleg Shuplyak, Ukrainian Artist, Paints Incredible Optical Illusions (PHOTOS)

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Have a look at Oleg Shuplyak’s Incredible Optical Illusions…

Congress Fails Children by Claiming Pizza is a Vegetable

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The tomato paste on pizza is enough for congress to claim that Pizza is a Vegetable. - Read

Weird “Playstation Move” Ad on Youtube.

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A growing number of people think the PS Move is a sex toy or at least looks the role and there’s a growing number of female buyers. Is Sony aware of this? Explain what’s behind this Ad they launched on Youtube.com:

No wonder Amazon confuses it! Come on Sony, hurry with the Playstation 4 and stop trying to market this “TOY”!

Geez, another Firefox update – 5, 6, 7 & 8 in 6 months!

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Is it panic mode over at Mozilla? I switched to Chrome about 2 years now but still keep Firefox for ensure certain websites load correctly in all major browsers. By the time I download and upgrade to 8.0.1 there’ll be a 9.0.1 prompting me to upgrade! These are just larger version numbers… the best Firefox is still 3.6.24! :)

Linux Mint 12 is out!

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I replaced Linux Mint 11 w/ Fedora 16 = meh! Get Mint 12 today! http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1889

Linux Mint 12 final release preps

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A another round of bug fixes in preparation of the final Mint 12 release! But Gnome 3 is dividing the Mint community. – http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1875

Set & monitor PHP’s realpath_cache_size “correctly”

Posted on November 20, 2011 by thehayden

Over the last few months I’ve started enabling realpath_cache_size and realpath_cache_ttl for the performance benefits. At the time I followed the settings I found here. It bugged me that I was blindly setting the size of the cache without actually know what and how much storage was being used. In this post I will show you how to view the size and contents of realpath_cache. Thus enabling you to tune settings based on your usage.

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Backup MySQL and Files on Amaz…

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Backup MySQL and Files on Amazon EC2 to S3 : http://t.co/qI26YCBZ

Be root on your Amazon Kindle!…

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Be root on your Amazon Kindle! Checkout detailed instructions on how to install root your Kindle: http://t.co/SZwEkWrQ

Are you missing the task bar i…

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Are you missing the task bar in your Gnome 3 desktop? Try out this easy to install Gnome Shell extension: http://t.co/k2leHD3I