Monthly Archives: September 2009

Linux TCP Settings for Comcast & Using ionice

It’s been mailed and blogged about to death, but I’ll explain how to increase you TCP performance for usage on a laptop or notebook that will having heavy bandwidth usage. With a common cable provider and wireless device ratings these days you can get about 2 MB/sec connections. However, it’s unlikely you’ll find many HTTP

Nicer HTML Forms in Less Time

We just discovered JotForm – an online tool for making and editing HTML forms. Most of the abstractions we have for forms are on the back-end, so we end up writing boring form code manually. Not anymore. Now we can create nice looking forms during development!

Santiance.com is finally back

We’ve been working on another domain, which I won’t be putting in this article since it should be forgotten and never used again. Welcome to santiance.com! It’s an exciting time as we’re working with a lot of different developers and clients with unique visions, and we’ve also got our own projects in the works. Our

Ubuntu 9.10 to Drop Pidgin Instant Messenger

It’s interesting to see what’s happening with the latest Ubuntu (9.10, Karmic Koala), which is in Alpha 4 of testing. Firstly, I would like to point out that I think the releases are getting slightly worse as of recent, which may be partly due to the economic crisis and lack of good developers being fully committed.