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curl usage explained – I love curl! Using cURL to interact with Google data services – A great resource from Google showing common usages of cURL interacting with their services.

Ever dream about automating mundane tasks? Or wish you could train you computer to do your work for you? I think we would all love to have the power of automation in our lives. With AutoIt we can easily take a boring repetitive task and automate it. AutoIt can send key strokes and mouse movements (…)

I have a script on my local computer that needs to send data to my website for further processesing. To accomplish this I use a powerful tool called cURL. cURL is an open source program that lets me send or recieve HTML data in pretty much any structure you could think of. I am going (…)

Getting consistent margins in CSS across all browsers can be a pain. I have tried quite a few CSS clears but this one seems to work the best for me. The reason these come in handy is because IE, Firefox, and Opera all have different default margins and can cause weird formatting issues later on. (…)

When I was codeing I didn’t know how in the world I was going to be able to have incrementing variables in my code. That was until I searched the php.net website and came up with variable variables. I had no idea what these were until now.

Mutt is my new favorite productivity tool. I have been blazing through my emails and setting up custom macros and commands like crazy. I have have found myself optimizing mutt more than actual reading email since it makes checking email go by so fast. Like Vim I would say mutt has dramatically changed the way (…)

The Mutt E-Mail Client – I have recently started to use mutt for checking my gmail email. I have to say that once you get it all setup you can blaze through emails. Subversion – This is another application that completely changed my life as a developer. If you are creating websites or working on (…)

Mutt is a console based email client and have been using it heavily the last few weeks. Now that I have everything setup the way I like I think it is the best email client I have ever used. I use Gmail for my email but ever since they allowed IMAP I have been looking (…)