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Web Services are real OK, I admit it, I don’t understand the gigantic .net initiative at all, but I do get it when certain sites really do begin to act like services I can call. Here are a few: Google Web APIs – Home. This is very cool, you can programmatically call Google via an…

Movable Type Installation Help. These are great instructions for how to turn blog templates (called blogplates) into MovableType compatible layouts. You can find these kind of layouts at Blogplates or from Miz Graphics

Blog Templates Ludwig has given me the mission to become an expert of MovableType. There is alot to learn. I’ve through a.lifeuncommon.org which is probalby the most well designed site I’ve seen in a long time and stumbled onto these blog template sites: Miz Graphics!. A general purpose site for templates. . This is a…

MSN Hotmail – Message AT&T Broadband is an amazing company. They cut off my service two weeks ago when they silently updated their system. Had to spend a couple of hours figuring it out, then a journey to their service center in north Seattle. Told me I should have gotten something in the mail. Now…

Rain Tire Recommendations From the Roadbikerider.com web site, some more winter tires to look at HEY UNCLE AL: I’ve decided to start criterium racing a little early in the season. I live in California, so the weather is usually just wet, not icy or snowy. I’d like a recommendation for a tire that would have…

Bicycle Tires Updated Here’s an update from the bike tire explorations: TUFO | Product Line. Saw this first on Sdeals. This is a tubular tire that fits on a clincher rim. Interesting idea. Weighs 335 grams but this includes the tube, so it compares with say 180 grams for a Veloflex Pave plus 70 grams…

PHP password protection Here is something that Michelle has asked for. When I convert Tongfamily.com over, I’m going to add this as well. By adding one line to each page, you get password protection. Cookie Password Protection in PHP. This is freeware for the simple case, but costs $20 otherwise. List of password protection scripts.…

Mailing List Servers Another thing I’ve been looking for are mailing list servers. Right now I’m using Arrow from Jadebox which is Windows based, but does require you have your client up and running all the time. This is limited to 50 users I’m going to try EZMLM – Easy Mailing List Manager which is…

Photo Gallery and Digital Photo Management Here is the final project, finding a good photo gallery and digital photo management system. There are web based ones like PhotoWorks, but I’ve found them to be super slow or cumbersome. So, I’ll start collecting a list of hacker ones. Here’s a start: alexking.org

PHP Bulletin Boards Now that the blog project is well on its way with the next steps being to get four other sites up and running and to try movabletype on tongfamily.com. The next step is to understand bulletin board software that’s out there and then album and photo archiving. Here are a quick list…

InternetSeer Web Site Monitoring Service. This is the number one hit on Google for doing site monitoring. Right now it is hitting the b2 blog mail monitoring url every hour to get email into the blog at Geek Fishing

boardom :: View Forum – Site showcase. OK, now I’m in the middle of posting my brand new b2 hack on the bulletin board. A proud day. I have to figure out how to package it so that you can all download it though.

PuTTY: a free Win32 telnet/ssh client. Oops that last listing was for a Unix-only client, here is the top Windows version from Google.

OpenSSH. This is the replacement for telnet. It is amazing how many old Unix utilities like ftp and telnet are still being used. Heck, I learned how to use it in 1975 when I was a teenager. I guess that dates me. At least, some things aren’t obsolete. I’m switching to ssh since it is…

APD |. It is pretty frustrating to be writing PHP without a debugger. Here’s one that some folks pointed out. I tried another debugger a while back and it was terrible. APD is the Advanced PHP Debugger. It was written to provide strace/truss capability for profiling and debugging php code, as well as providing the…

PHP_CodeDoc – Class: Mail. Wowk, this is a super useful site, they go into every routine that is built with PEAR and document what they are doing since the code itself isn’t documented. Very useful.

ALT-PHP-FAQ – How can I set the include path and other settings that are fixed in php.ini without having access to php.ini?. The include paths on tqhosting are busted, so here is a way to change it if I can access .htaccess or maybe I’ll ask mark@tqhosting.com

PEAR :: Manual: Mail_RFC822. Eureka, I discovered that I had just forgotten the declaration that asks for the right file that is require_once ‘Mail.php’ That’s is. Then you can use the method Mail::parserecipients(“strong”) to get the list. Wow, amazing how i figured this out just when I went to bed. The problem is that code…

SecuriTeam.com ? (Weak MySQL Default Configuration). Ah one last thing is the security on mysql. By default it has a root login with no password. The e-php changes this, so you have to switch it back by editing the config.inc.php file. See the link above.

TAASC: MySQL Basics — A Tutorial. The MySQL installation now can’t connect to apache, so the search goes on. Here is an installation manual.

Web installer. OK, this is very strange, why it didn’t work, but I installed mysql, iis, perl, php and then used the e-php installer and now pear seems to be there. This installation helps me to install a “package” for us.

Parsing email Well, it occurs to me that there must be quite of few people who have written code like this, so a search reveals: PHP: mailparse functions – Manual. These are some routines from the main PHP server itself that let’s you parse the entire stream. Pretty useful like mailparse_rfc822_parse_addresses. Not super well documented,…

PHP: Documentation. I’m learning how to parse an email, grab the email address in the From line and then look it up in a MySQL database. To do that, I’ve printed the source and now I need to learn PHP finally. Usually, Iearn just by reading code, but this is a little harder, so it’s…

wapblogger – a WAP interface to Blogger, LiveJournal and other smart weblog-style tools. Wow, how cool, you can post to a blog via your cell phone. Sign me up. You just have to navigate to http://wap.ubique.ch/wapblogger/ from your phone and I’m off and to the races!

Geeklog – Documentation 1.3x. Hmm. Yet another blog tool. Nice thing about this one is the automatic theming. Wow, there are an amazing number of tools like this developed in the last year. This like cafelog and movabletype is about a year old.

SiteWorks Professional – The Complete PHP/MySQL Driven Site Administration Suite. Here’s a tool that just uses PHP and MySQL. Wow, just what the doctor ordered. I love the Internet!

PHP Builder. I’m probably going to settle on PHP or Perl as my scripting language. PHP is tempting because it is pretty easy to integrate into Windows servers which I need in this transition period. Here is a great site of tips on it.

PHP Builder. I’m going to convert tongfamily.com from a FrontPage plus IIS specific site with blogger on top to a pure blog over the next could of months. This is going to be a big project given how many dependencies there are on Microsoft technology right now. Here’s a short list of things to do:…

Telling the world about a new web site Well, now that we have Geek Fishing up and running, it’s time to do another review of web tools to get things published and into search enginers. I did this a few years ago, but the world is always changing. Here’s Jim Tools. Last time around, I…