I wrote jquery.dates about a year ago, and put it up on the site here. A few months later I realized I didn't have the time to keep it up to date, so I removed the links to the project from the main navigation. Odd that, because now jquery.dates has received a number of emails with either thanks, or bug fixes, and the jquery.dates documentation page has been seeing consistent hits.

I often find myself in need of an SSL certificate for some of the websites on my Apache web servers. The problem is that the old method of "ssl-certificate" has been deprecated. And the new "make-ssl-certificate" requires a configuration file. Unfortunately this configuration file sets up a default of one month for your certificate.

I am about to begin on a new project. This project is a migration of an existing, large application from Cold Fusion running on a Windows server with the SQL Server 2000 database server to a LAMP server. Yep, I get to convert the application to a LAMP application.

I've been working some with OpenVPN and am trying to get some automated tasks running the moment my laptop connects to my VPN network. Unfortunately, testing this is rather hard when all the open WiFi network connections nearby use the same IP subnet as my internal network (192.16.0.x). So it was time to change to a non-normal subnet.

I recently had a project that needed to do a whole lot of number crunching, and then create a PDF to present those numbers and a line chart as well. This presented two problems for me - how to create a PDF from code, and how to create a chart for use within that PDF. I can say that I have had some success and wish to share with you the process. I'll talk about the PDF side of things in this article, and post another soon with details on how I handled the chart. But an overview of the chart solution is included below.