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

Eric Wendelin over at eriwen.com was kind enough to let me post an article about Vim on his blog today. It is a nice guide to Vim for people that have never used Vim looking to add some productivity to their programing. If you have used Vim for years you might learn something as well.

While you are there check out some of his other articles. There are some great ones on grep, sed, awk, and lots more.

Vim is a beautiful tool

With my newly acquired Perl and regular expression skills I was trying to put them to the test and get a little practice. I asked a friend of mine if he had any regular expressions I should write. He first gave me an easy one. Replace ‘foo‘ with ‘bar‘ only when bar follows the word ‘blah‘. So after a minute or two I returned with a working regular expression.

Well that was easy…

Now for something a little trickier. He said, I want a regular expression that would print out words that land on every third letter ‘e‘ except if that word was ‘the‘. This doesn’t mean he wanted the third word that has the letter ‘e‘. Read more »

Google Chrome is the new browser that was just relased by Google in an attempt to capture the browser market to give them a significant advantage to their search/advertising business. With Chrome Google will be able to track what actions the browser takes to further narrow down pagerank of sites. Read more »

Well its been one year now since my blog started and I can say it has been a lot of fun. I have learned a few things after joining the blogosphere and one of the things I learned is that blogs are not easy. Although they are not easy, they can be extremely rewarding. Read more »

Dreamhost just anounced in their monthly newsletter that they now offer one click domain linking with Google Apps. All you have to do is: Read more »