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” […]
There are a couple online applications I use often and I thought I would share how to make them just a little more productive. I use Google Calendars and I also use Ta-Da Lists. These just help me keep things organized and with a lot of things happening during the day, being organized sure can […]
Many moons ago I performed a cdrom install over nfs. I just did another and it reminded me how much I dislike them. I just thought I would share 😉 If someone asks you to do one, don’t.
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 […]
Before I forget, on a recent episode of The LinuxLink TechShow our buddy Dave Yates clued me into a fantastic program called ClusterSSH which has made my life at work a LOT easier lately. ClusterSSH is a program that will open multiple concurrent ssh sessions to different machines and allow you to control them all […]
Wow, even my wife has been buggin that I haven’t posted anything lately. So, here goes… For quite some time now I have been running a program called OSSEC at work as an IDS or Intrusion Detection System. I had even recommended it to Dann a while back, but haven’t heard back from him regarding […]
A couple people now have inquired about the scripting with sqlite I mentioned on the last TechShow. A good example is a script I am using to track my time and tasks for the day which at work. The boss wants to be able to show that we are working on different things and what […]
The other day at work I was doing a bit of web programming and ran into a little snag. I had written a good sized piece of code and after testing noticed that the formatting wasn’t just right. I figured out quickly that I had a bad tag in there somewhere, but how to find […]
Did I ever mention yet that I work on the 14th floor? Don’t remember if I did. Well, just the other day we had a fire alarm (don’t think they ever actually found a reason), and policy is to always use the stairs if there is an alarm because you obviously don’t want to be […]