Sunday, September 21, 2008

I decided to Google 'filter rss feeds' today. Seems there are several tools out there to do the task. The one that really caught my eye is Yahoo pipes. I had seen pipes before, but never really thought about what it could do for me. I played around some with Pipes to filter a feed. Next up - combining feeds with Yahoo Pipes.

Sunday, August 31, 2008

Wordpress plugin for social bookmarking

I found a Blog today that used Wordpress with some neat features. I liked the fact that it offers social bookmarking sites. I have been using Feedburner with Blogger to accomplish this on most of my blogs. The thing I was unsure of is how to make this happen with Wordpress. This plugin Sociable looks really slick.

How to get the best rankings on your blog

This was an interesting article on how to get the highest rankings in your blog. It is specific to wordpress blogs, but the same techniques can be used on any blogging platform.

Share a post - find content to post to a blog

I stumbled across a site today called sharepost.com that has content that you can grab and post to a blog. I think it would be more interesting to actually write you own content to post to your blog, but hey it is something I had never heard about before.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Google AJAX Search API Wizards - Google AJAX Search API - Google Code

Google AJAX Search API Wizards - Google AJAX Search API - Google Code: "Google AJAX Search API Wizards"
I found this today while searching around. There is a wizard that allows you to create an AJAX news bar and place it on your web site. I am sure there will be more wizards to come in the future.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

If you own a Linksys WRT54G3G and you are having problems then please keep reading. I have worked for a couple of months now to figure out why my router and my Pantech PX-500 card would not work properly together. I was already running Linksys 2.00.9 firmware and my Pantech card also had the most recent firmware. My router would not stay connected, would not auto connect all the time, and just overall was very unreliable. After upgrading my router with OpenWRT Firmware I was able to finally have a reliable internet connection.
Please see this thread below for information on where to find the OpenWRT firmware and how to install the new firmware on your router.

OpenWRT Firmware for WRT54G3G- New Aug. 25th : EVDOforums.com

Update: 12/16/2008
If you are looking to purchase one of these great routers I would check eBay. I just purchased one shipped for under $60

Saturday, September 15, 2007

After purchasing a Sprint broadband card I wanted to see if there was a way to make it work with Ubuntu Linux. After lots of searching I found a document on Sprints web site that details the steps required to get their broadband cards working. The card I purchased was the Pantech PX-500. I am using Ubuntu 7.04, so the instructions were a little different. I had no need to configure the modem for graphical access, I just wanted a simple script I could run to share broadband using my old Linux laptop.
Here are the steps I followed to get the card working:
  1. Follow the steps on pages 21-22 of the Sprint guide.
  2. Setup masquerading on your Linux box. I used the command "sudo iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.1.0/24 -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE". This will be different depending on your network configuration.
  3. And the final step that was somewhat hard to figure out was to setup IP forwarding. This was the magic trick to completing the whole setup "sudo sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1". There appears to be several ways to make this work, but using sysctl was the only way I could make it work with my specific configuration.
  4. Bring up your connection with "sudo wvdial" and enjoy!

Thursday, September 06, 2007

LucidDB Home Page

LucidDB Home Page

Column type databases are a very interesting idea. LucidDB is an open source database that claims to be much faster than a row based database.

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Setup tomcat server under IIS steps - Google Docs & Spreadsheets

Setup tomcat server under IIS steps - Google Docs & Spreadsheets
This will take you through a step by step process of setting up Tomcat on a windows 2003 or windows xp machine and deploying a GWT packaged as a .WAR file.

Monday, July 16, 2007

Java Network Programming FAQ

Java Network Programming FAQ:
Allow tomcat5.5 on ubuntu 7.04 to open socket connections to remote hosts
Modify the java.policy file of found under /etc/java-xxxx/security
Under the grant section for all domains add this line:
"grant { permission java.net.SocketPermission '*:1024-65535', 'connect,accept,resolve';"

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Friday, June 15, 2007

iPod Touch Deals