Archive for 2005

LibriVox Catalog

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

LibriVox Catalog
Here’s an interesting idea, grab free ebooks from project Gutenburg gather a team of volunteers to read the, and create free audio books.
It looks like it’s just starting up, but an interesting idea.

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Free Linux/OSS Magazines

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

Stefan N. pointed me to what looks like a cool new Opensource magazine O3. From the website:
O3 magazine is a free magazine distributed electronically in PDF format. O3 is published on a monthly basis. The focus of O3 is on the use of Free and Open Source (FOSS) software in Enterprise Data Networking environments. Some […]

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Lawrence man turns hobby into $4M hedge fund

Monday, November 28th, 2005

Note to self: Find way to monetize my hobbies… anyone heard of buisness plans based around IRC?
Investing - bizjournals.com
For years, the former accountant and real estate developer traded options and various securities with his and a few friends’ money. The returns were strong enough to drive Santaularia and his son, Charlie, to start Parrot Trading […]

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a quote to remember

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

I’m just saving this for when it might come in handy!
<ionic> ohhh then I was sooooo wrong

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Finally, a server move!

Monday, November 21st, 2005

I’ve been saying I would do it for the last year or so, but as of a couple hour I’ve finally moved my crap over onto my server.
Running PHP5.1RC6 with Wordpress 2.0 SVN, you could say I’m living on the bleeding edge.
The downside of this is that dispite my efforts, email is still not really […]

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PEAR at LinuxWorld Frankfurt

Friday, November 18th, 2005

By: Stefan Neufeind
Less than a week after PHP Conference in Frankfurt it was time for a trip to Frankfurt again. As last year we had an exhibition booth in the .org pavillion of the LinuxWorld Expo, next to the people from Free Software Foundation and right across from KDE. Unfortunately no PEAR-related talk made it […]

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PHPUnit Pocket Guide - 5 Minute Review

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

At the recent International PHP Conference held in Frankfurt, Germany I was able to pick up a copy of Sebastian Bergmann’s “PHPUnit Pocket Guide” a slim pocket guide published by O’Reilly which forms the most complete documentation for PHPUnit. I hesitated before picking up this book, the last “Pocket Guide” I bought covered Python and […]

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Winbinder Slides from IPC Up

Sunday, November 13th, 2005

Conference is over, and the slides for my talk on “Winbinding your Code” are up. I was was very happy with the schedule, and how my talk followed Jeremy Johnstone’s talk on the very cool PHP-GTK2.
Lots of the same people were in both talks, and I was plesantly surprised by the amount of people who […]

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E-Plus & Skype

Saturday, November 12th, 2005

E-Plus Mobilfunk - Handys und Tarife
So it looks like my mobile carrier just struck up a deal with skype for a 40EU/month Flat rate UMTS deal. That is VERY attractive.
I wonder if I could use the same package for both my phone and my laptop, or would I need to purchase 2 seperate packages.
Looking at […]

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Sounds of International PHP Conference Day 1

Sunday, November 6th, 2005

First day of this years IPC has ended… unlike previous years, where I tried to cover as many sessions as possible with blog posts, this year I’ll be using my trusty Zaurus SL5500 to capture some of the sounds of the conferences.
In this first episode, we start around the lunch table with Lukas Smith, Jeremy […]

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Get Google ads on your site - Make me some money :)

Saturday, November 5th, 2005

Google just added a referral program to google adsense. I’ve been running google ads on this blog for the past 2 years, and while I haven’t made a fortune, it covers the costs of my dedicated server (which I will move to soon).
My ads are pretty mild, and I generally don’t get any more than […]

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JavaScript - Introduction to Forms

Thursday, November 3rd, 2005

JavaScript - Introduction to Forms
Why am I always wondering how to do this?

for (i=0;i

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Like my Podcast? VOTE NOW!!!

Tuesday, November 1st, 2005

Vote for Podcast: Another Day in Paradise
I’m waaaay to tired/busy for blogging these days (DST took out a couple hours of my sleep :S), but if you’ve liked my podcast recently please vote for me using the above link.
If you don’t know what podcasts are, read this and then subscribe to my podcast at Yahoo, […]

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Podcast Tools, Man on Fire and Bush vs. Religion

Sunday, October 30th, 2005

I took a stroll through the Podsafe Music Network and picked up a great track by Brother Love.
In this episode we take a stroll through the tools that I use for playing with my audio. The links follow.
Mp3splt
VideoLan
Foobar2000
Audacity
A quick round up on the great Man on Fire. Followed by a rant on Bush’s version […]

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join() the fun

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

GeekStory
Having a bit of fun with ning over here. Feel free to contribute

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