Mark Sanborn . net

Ever wonder what RSS feeds I subscribe to? Here is a quick list of most of the feeds I subscribe to.

Niche Alerts

 
These are alerts that I have setup so I can see if I am mentioned on twitter or if a general term is being talked about. Some of these keywords will generate tons of alerts. For the ones with many alerts I will usually scan these weekly to see any trending topics.

Google Alerts: Linux
Google Alerts: Linux Howto
Twitter Search: Nixtutor
Twitter Search : Linux
Twitter Search: Faceoff Podcast
Technorati Search for: Linux
Twitter Search: Rocketshipit – UPS, FedEx, USPS web shipping business that I do.

I also have some various work related niche alerts that I won’t list here.

Friend’s Blogs

 
Jade Robbins – All about my good friend Jade Robbins the co-host of Faceoff Show and founder of Montana Fragfest.
Eric Wendelin’s Blog – I wrote a guest post for Eric a long time ago and been a subscriber ever since. He talks about, programming and productivity with open-source tools.

Linux

 
0ddn1x: tricks with *nix – A nice compilation of good linux articles across the net. Most of these come from social media sites.
Adam’s Tech Talk, Linux HOWTOs & Discussion, PHP, MySQL
BabloTech
Debian Package of the Day – An excellent site. They definitely don’t post daily however.
Linux * Screw
Mark Shuttleworth (Founder of Ubuntu) – Posts are few and far between but are usually worth it.
nixCraft Linux Sys Admin Blog – Nice alternative to Nixtutor. Usually Nix admin articles.
Ubuntu Linux Help
Werner’s Linux Blog
MontanaLinux.org – If you live in Montana definitely consider subscribing to this feed.

General Tech

 
Lifehacker – Who doesn’t love lifehacker? My only complaint is that this feed can be overwhelming. (20+ a day)
gHacks technology news
Google Open Source Blog – I love open source. I love google. I love this feed.
Yet Another Technology Site
PureRoon.co.uk
Walker News

Gaming

 
Montana Fragfest – Jade Robbins runs this gaming site that is primarily for Montana residents but everyone is welcomed. If you play Team Fortress 2 we play every Monday and Thursday night.

Non Tech

 
Montana Mushrooms – The best damn mushroom blog in town. Seriously, if you think mushrooms are those little white things you buy in the store check this site out. The world of mushrooms is so much more.

Web Development

 
NETTUTS – Web development tutorials and links – Great in-depth articles on technology. I mainly use this feed to check what current web development trends are popular.
David Walsh Blog – A Mootools evangelist and web developer. I have guest posted on David’s blog and also interviewed David on Faceoff show.
CSS-Tricks – An awesome resource for CSS and general web development articles and screencasts.

Security

 
Schneier on Security – An author of many crypto books and creator of the two fish and blow fish crypto algorithms.
SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities – A very verbose security vulnerability alert service.

Business and Marketing

 
Seth’s Blog – An amazing resource for marketing advice and theory.
ProBlogger Blog Tips – The pro of blogging. Problogger, Darren Rowse.

Web Apps

 
I scan through these daily and pick only the best web apps that I can find. I then talk about these on our podcast: Faceoff Show. I highly recommend that you just subscribe to the podcast so you can skip the useless web apps and get detailed reviews of the good ones.
Useful Tools
Webware.com
MoMB

Work

 
WorkAwesome – From the creator of Nettuts.

Check personal feeds to make sure they work

 
These are feeds that I have subscribed to only to make sure they are working. Most of these are sites/projects that I contribute to.

Comments for Mark Sanborn . net – The comments for this site.
NixTutor – My blog about Linux
Faceoff Show – A podcast I co-host about web apps, programming, and entrepreneurship.
Issue updates for project ups-php on Google Code – An open source project regarding UPS shipping.

What else?

Did I miss something? Based on my feeds can you recommend a good feed I should subscribe to?

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. Read more »

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.

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

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

Faceoff-001-Frameworks.mp3

You can listen to Episode 2 when you are done with this one.

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”: Read more »

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. Read more »

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: Read more »