Archive for the 'tutorial' Category
Wireless Issues on Gutsy Gibbon (and a fix!)
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007I couldn’t wait and installed the latest RC of Gutsy Gibbon today. To my surprise the wireless did not work whatsoever! ifconfig didn’t list my interface, but it showed up when I ran lspci. I decided to boot into an older kernel (2.6.20) and it showed up! It must’ve been some […]
Protecting Your Data with SSH - Setting up a Proxy (Part 2)
Monday, September 3rd, 2007In the first part of this article I introduced Public Key Encryption and SSH. In this part, we will look at how to use SSH to secure your traffic when using an untrusted network.
As previously mentioned, this was partly inspired by events from SuperHappyDevHouse. At the last event we wanted to promote the […]
Protecting Your Data with SSH - Background (Part 1)
Friday, August 17th, 2007While using either an open wireless network at a coffee shop, an untrusted network, or virtually any open network, your data is exposed. Data passed around on a network is normally unencrypted which means anyone can read it. Imagine the type of data you send over the network: passwords, private messages, more passwords! […]
RSS - Creating a Feed (Part 3/3)
Friday, April 6th, 2007In the final article of this series we’re going to write a script in PHP that will dynamically create an RSS feed from entries in a MySQL database. If you decide to use this script in your own custom application, you may need to change parts of the script, such as the query. You can […]
RSS - Inside (Part 2)
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007In the previous article I demonstrated a practical application of RSS with Google Reader.
Now that we have a working example of RSS in action, let’s dig a bit deeper and see what’s inside an RSS feed. For this article, we’re going to use RSS 2.0 as our primary example.
An RSS feed is made up of […]
RSS - Introduction (Part 1)
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007Adam Darowski recently asked to pick my brain about writing a PHP script to create an RSS feed from a database. As one of my favorite “Web 2.0” technologies, I figured I would write a 3-part introductory series on RSS and PHP.
In this series I want to cover a couple topics:
What is RSS?
Digging […]
Organization with Web 2.0
Monday, November 27th, 2006If youre anything like me, then you’re moving from computer to computer. Syncing data between all of these workstations can make your workflow both inefficient and unorganized. There are also cross-platform issues, and the different data formats between applications. This article will demonstrate how to overcome these problems with the use of web 2.0 […]
Yakety Sax Mash-Up
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006Yakety Sax, better known as the Benny Hill theme, can make anything funny. I was sent a youtube link of a turtle trying to “rape” another turtle. Not finding any humor in the video, I thought of a way spice it up: use the Benny Hill Theme! Watch it once and […]
RSS and Google Personalized Pages
Monday, July 31st, 2006One of the emerging technologies in this Web 2.0 fad is called “RSS” or Really Simple Syndication. This XML-based technology is used for a variety of purposes such as news feeds, podcasts, and sending out regularly updated information. As a matter of fact, this blog has an RSS feed; you can identify sites easily with […]
Drink Making Lesson #1
Sunday, July 30th, 2006The first drink I would like to share is one of my favorites: a Washington Apple. I was first introduced to this drink on my 21st birthday and fell in love it with it since. Not only is it a tasty drink, but it’s very easy to make.
The ingredients are as following:
1 Part […]
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