For many, many years, I had an extremely simple personal website (above). Its early content was handcrafted in static HTML pages and used little styling (CSS was not available early on, and later, ...

I have owned three NetGear ReadyNAS units over the years (NV2, NV+, Ultra 4). Since I bought a higher-capacity one some time ago (the Ultra 4), the other two have been used for long-term image back...

Today, I completed a modernization of my biography, resume, and company information pages by bringing them into the fold (format and style) of this website.

On this, my new blog-based website, I have integrated the documentation for PVS6 Access and API as a regular page. The PDF document (as of January 2026) will remain available, but will no longer be...

Important Update: Information about newer firmware requiring authentication, and a new local monitoring API from SunStrong. See the section immediately after the introduction in the documentation. ...

Since the first publication, I have found that some of the information presented is incorrect. I have updated this document to reflect that, but my recommendation has not changed. I recently (lat...

I have been researching and implementing a way to connect to my SunPower PVS6 monitoring system so I can view panel-level details about my PV system. SunPower does not make this level of detail ava...

Just wanted to show all of you who use OO PHP a technique that is quite familiar to old-time C++ programmers, but generally not so well known in the PHP world (think auto_ptr). This technique allow...

I recently converted an old(er) Zend Framework based application to the new Zend_Application/Zend_Bootstrap style bootstrap approach. In doing so, I of course started down the path of creating comp...

I have occasionally been plagued by less-than-stellar performance while using ZendStudio 6.x.x series. It happened again the other day, and I finally made some progress in tracking it down, so let ...