Check Your Mail

I keep forgetting to publish this post, so I had better do it now before I forget again 🙂 Many of you know that I dig using (al)pine for reading my email. This is especially true on my Acer Aspire One netbook. I like to have fast access to my email and save space on […]

The One

A good while ago I remember voicing my opinion on the show about those new Netbooks, the sub-compact notebooks/laptops that everyone was buying. It was my opinion that they were underpowered and pricey for what they actually offered. After all, why buy a mini notebook when you can get a fairly good regular notebook for […]

TivoGrab Howto:

For those of you who are following the whole TivoGrab script, a friend, Russ Wenner, wrote a nice howto for the program: A Step-by-Step How-To on using the “TivoGrab” PHP script by Linc Fessenden (by Russ Wenner 8/14/08) 1. A few things you will need before you begin: a. You will need to make sure […]

TivoGrab

A while back I mentioned a little work I was doing investigating getting my recorded shows off of my new Tivo onto more portable media (I watch my shows on the train to work). After talking about that, my friend Allan spoke with me about getting a script together and specifically, about getting a BashPodder […]

RackSpace

One of the applications I have been working on at work is RackSpace. Basically, it’s an application that helps track rackmounted servers and equipment and their placement, power, vlan and BTU usage in a datacenter. Of course, this started out as one of those deals where there just wasn’t a utility available that did exactly […]

Tivo script

Ok. A lot of people have asked me about when I was going to write something to take advantage of my Tivo from my Linux box. Some have even called it a “BashPodder for Tivo”. While I haven’t quite gone that far yet, I have written a script to make getting things off of my […]

HTML Validator

I do a fair bit of LAMP programming at work and one of the tools I hold absolutely invaluable in this regard is HTML Validator. This handy-dandy little program is a Firefox Extension that is based on HTML Tidy and does w3c html validation. Just right click on the website and pick “view page source” […]

SimplePie

I was surfing the net as I usually do when there is nothing on tv on sayurdays when I came across SimplePie a php class that deftly handles rss feeds. I just have to say that this is freaking cool! I am not sure what I am going to do with it yet, but I […]

Subversion

I do a fair bit of coding as as such I decided long ago I needed to use a versioning system. Initially I used cvs, like most people do. After using it a while I was looking for something with some better features and decided upon Subversion. I have been using it ever since. By […]

Bracket counting in php

Been quite ill this week so far, but in on of my few lucid moments, I remembered that I never actually put this up on my blog. A while back I made a simple bracket counting utility that I use against my php scripts when I get stuck. Basically, all it does is give you […]