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What RSS Feeds Does Mark Sanborn Read?
Ever wonder what RSS feeds I subscribe to? Here is a quick list of most of the feeds I subscribe to. Continue reading →
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments OffSchedule a Tweet with One Comnand in Linux
Ever want to schedule a tweet to go out at the same time an article is published or an event is started? Want to do it without signing up to a service or some other complicated task? Well this post is for you. I am going to show you how to schedule a tweet from the command line in one line of code. You can schedule the tweet to take place ten minutes from now, 14 days, or whenever you wish. Continue reading →
Posted in Howto, Linux, Miscellaneous | 2 CommentsTwo New Projects Launched: NixTutor and Faceoff Podcast
As you may have noticed posts have slowed a little here on MarkSanborn.net. This is due to my involvement in two new projects.
NixTutor
NixTutor is a new blog/tutorial site that I created to cater to those that love and use unix like systems. NixTutor will have full guides and indepth tutorials regarding various unix like topics including:
- Linux
- FreeBSD
- OpenBSD
- NetBSD
- Solaris
- Open Source Software
For Nix topics subscribe to the NixTutor RSS feed.
Faceoff Podcast
The faceoff prodcast is a new weekly podcast that me and my buddy Jade Robbins started that focuses on web technology.
Some of the topics that we have covered include:
- Frameworks
- Ruby on Rails
- Zend Framework
- WordPress 2.7
- Firebug
- Personal Brand Image
- Negative Blog Comments
- Interesting people to follow on Twitter
- Web apps
- Music while programing
- ups-php
- ie7-js
To subscribe to the itunes compatible feed click here.
How about MarkSanborn.net?
This site will remain up and I will continue as usual to post on various technology topics; however, expect to see less Linux related posts as they will most likely make their way over to the new NixTutor site.
Faceoff: Episode 2
Well we decided that podcasting was fun and many of our listeners enjoyed it so we continuing with the project.
We opened a website up at faceoffshow.com Although the site is not quite up yet, expect a full feature site with proper itunes compatible feeds soon!
In the mean time you can download the podcast directly from here:
Episode 2:
Topics include:
- Technology people to follow on Twitter
- Web apps
- Music while programing
- ie7-js
- ups-php
- Desktop virtualization
Faceoff-002-FavoriteWebapps.mp3
Show Notes:
Gary Vaynerchucktwitter.com/garyvee
garyvaynerchuk.com
Matt Cutts – twitter.com/mattcutts
mattcutts.com/blog
IE 7 JS plugin
Faceoff: A New Podcast by Mark Sanborn and Jade Robbins
This is the first episode of our new podcast called, Face Off.
This was our first recording of any kind ever. Since this is our first podcast it is very amateur. There are times in the podcast where there is light swearing. The first recording was also not structured and was never really meant to be a podcast until we were done and had over an hour worth of material we wanted to share, so, please bare with us. We promise to have a more structured show for episode two.
If this is something you would like to see more of please let us know either by leaving a comment below or sending me or Jade Robbins an email.
Episode 1: 56:30
Topics include:
- Frameworks
- Ruby on Rails
- Zend Framework
- WordPress 2.7
- Firebug
- Personal Brand Image
- Negative Blog Comments
Without further ado
You can listen to Episode 2 when you are done with this one.
Posted in Uncategorized | 6 CommentsExtract without First Directory
Whenever I download something that is compressed on the Internet in a .zip, .rar or .tar.gz it is always a crapshot whether or not it contains a “container directory”. A “container directory” is a directory that contains all the other files usually with the same name as the compressed file.
For example the Zend Framework when downloaded contains a folder called, ‘ZendFramework-1.7.2‘. All the other files are contained under this folder. This is great but sometimes I want to extract the contents of the folder without the “container folder”.
This is how I used to extract the contents and remove the “container folder”: Continue reading →
Posted in Linux | 5 CommentsMastering the UPS Shipping API: Rate Shopping Dropdown
One of the first parts of the checkout process of any ecommerce site is to provide the customer with a dropdown box with shipping options. In this tutorial we are going to shop for various UPS rates and display them in a convenient drop down.
If you are new to the UPS API first read this article, Mastering the UPS Shipping API: Getting Started. You will need to have access to UPS’s online web tools. You can register here. Continue reading →
Posted in Uncategorized | 1 CommentAuto Pastebin with Pastebinit
If you have ever been in an irc channel or IM and needed to show another programmer your code you have probably used Pastebin before or a similar service. You simply go to the website copy and paste and hit submit and you have a link generated so you can hand it out to your fellow programmer.
I’m always someone that is looking for a faster/better way of doing things and copying, pasting, switching screens, and navigating to a website is a huge waste of time. With pastebinit I can skip all of that and just type: Continue reading →
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