Author: jess
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When All Fails, Install a Chalkboard
We finally have a chalkboard back on the wall! Perfect timing too since we both needed a little something to cheer us up. I present House Eating Monster for your short attention span enjoyment.
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Mac OSX 10.6 Shell Script to Configure, Launch, and Shutdown Screen Sharing
Apple’s MacOS has a tidy built in remote access client and service generically known as “Screen Sharing”. Yay! This works great for headless machines, testing servers, and annoying your spouse. The paranoid and performance conscious user may not want these services continuously running. Rogue services hanging out, listening, and waiting for some punk to probe…
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Logo for Phergie
After I mentioned the logo I’m creating for Caidy, Matthew Turland casually mentioned that Phergie could use a logo. Phergie is open source IRC bot written in PHP (My non-technical friends’ eyes have glazed over about now). The important part is that is open source and a PHPWomen.org sponsored project, so worthy of more than…
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Mardi In Her Pool
Mardi, still a puppy, plays in her kiddie pool. Sorry bout the slight profanity while I was trying to keep the camera dry and rolling.
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New Tools for Clogged Intertubes
Caidy brings me the right tool for the job from San Diego. Say goodbye to latency! This plunger was actually a $10 off coupon from a California plumber that was given to Caidy’s mom last year.
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My Reply to E-mail with Text File AppleScript
At work I deal with a large volume of e-mail. There just aren’t enough people to handle all the e-mail requests or questions. When I have people to help handle e-mail, I still answer some of the same questions over and over and over. You just don’t want to know the volume or scope of…
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My Ugly WordPress, HyperDB, & BuddyPress Deployment Shell Script
This is the source of some of the website deployment scripts I have. This is one is fairly complex and it is my pocket tool of choice for development of big nasty WordPress sites. Probably only interesting to folks who deal with unix shells and do mildly heavy WordPress work. It’s designed to update from…
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Tommy’s diggall.sh revised
Think you know the linux digg command? Ever try to do some simple network discovery with it? This script by Tommy Johnson does some nice condensed discovery. Just pass a domain for the argument. That is all!
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WordPress 3.0 Ajax Notes
Collecting up some WordPress 3.0 and Ajax notes. Nice round look at current state of Ajax and WordPress: http://www.wphardcore.com/2010/5-tips-for-using-ajax-in-wordpress/ Here’s the WordPress Trac discussion for implementation in WordPress 3.0: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12400