{ Josh Rendek }

I honestly can’t believe this was allowed to air: http://www.youtube.com/watchv=l-cy6dbeCPA

I feel like I just lost half my brain at the sheer stupidity of the reporter/report/insight.

After getting my new mac book pro I had an extra laptop sitting around… so why not turn it into a little low power development box My goal is to get LigHTTPD, Ruby on Rails, PHP, MySQL, and Python to work together with lighty.

Step 1: Install Lighty

I’m working on some new features for BlueBug and one of them is a bit of integration, for instance to link to a ClientExec support ticket you just do [ce]1234[/ce] where 1234 is the ticket ID. Each project can have it’s own CE URL. I’ve also done the same with GitHub so [git]commitID[/git] will open up the page for the commit.

Would anyone like to see more If so what program (if its commercial please give me an example URL).

On campus they use BlueSocket as a WIFI manager…. I got tired of waiting for the browser to load their nasty redirect page to login so I wrote a simple python script to automatically log me in, just execute and your good! (only tested on MAC)

Kept trying to enable flash in a TinyMCE editor I was using and finally the following worked for extended_valid_elements:

object[classid|codebase|width|height|data|type],param[name|value],embed[src|quality|width|height|type|pluginspage|bgcolor],a[name|href|target|title|onclick]

I also added flash and media to my plugins init as well.

Hope this helps someone else with that annoying tag stripping issue!

About 2 years I was on Roadrunner. I loved it; so much so that I always reccomended it to friends and family. Download speeds were blazing fast 10+mbps, sometimes even 15mbps. I moved away to Comcast and feared for the worst (after hearing a lot of bad reviews from them).

Boy have times changed. I’m back home visiting for the holidays and Roadrunner is absolute crap. What was once 10mbps is now a mere 1-4mbps, 4 if I’m LUCKY.

So I’m planning on purchasing a shiny new Macbook Pro 2.4 ghz 2GB ram 15" screen and the 250GB 7200 RPM HDD. I was going to pick it up in store, so I first called one location. After being put on hold about 5 times while she figured out what “250GB @ 7200 rpm” meant, she said they didn’t have that model in store.

So I called the second store - she informed me that they carry ZERO upgraded models in store. So if I wanted to get the base 2.4GHz macbook pro with an upgraded HDD, I couldn’t find this in the store. Ever. Or the 2.5 GHz model with a 7200 RPM HDD, order online. Basically anything but the stock model I’d have to order online.

After toying with the idea to use SVN (or possibly Git) I decided to try SVN and find a nice web interface that was easy to setup.

In comes WebSVN, which I thought would be easy to setup. Well I created the SVN repo following the instructions in the SVN book and had it up and running fine for my new server monitoring script.  Then I wanted to create a front-end to this repository (and for BlueBug once I made that one).

I’ve been writing a new program for monitoring servers ( I havn’t found one that was easy to setup and didn’t require some painful process to setup server / remote side ). It consists of the monitoring machine where all the remote servers report to. The remote servers run a simple PHP scripts every 5 minutes that reports to the monitor.

Here are a few screen shots, let me know if you’d like to see more or learn more.

• v1.2 - 10/27/2008 - RELEASED
  1. Fixed all short tags (if you still get an error let me know, I'm 99.9% sure I got them all)
  2. Script now works properly in sub directories - see demo for in-action.