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?

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.

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 »

When learning regular expressions it is helpful to be able to quickly test regular expression patterns. It doesn’t really matter which proramming language you use to build it but I will give you two examples, one in Perl and one in PHP.

If you are new to regular expressions first check out, Learning Regular Expressions For Beginners: The Basics. It will run your through your first example. Once you have the hang of it you can come back here and build a test program to practice your own regular expressions. Read more »

After reading the chapter in my Perl book about regular expressions I decided to go ahead and solve one of the problems I usually have when getting cURL data.

Often times I had cURL report back the HTTP header with the XML data. Although I can disable this and tell cURL to only display the XML data, I wanted to be able to use the header data to distinguish if the website is reachable or not. This is especially useful for web apps that go down often like Twitter. Read more »

Now that you have MySQL installed you might want to install the famous Apache web browser on your FreeBSD system. This post will be a quick walk through for installing Apache with PHP5 with mostly default settings to help you get going quick. Read more »

Improperly validating user input has become a common scenario in security exploits these days. Recently there was a flaw in the way digg sanitized user input allowing the hacker to have his articles auto dugg. Although it took digg awhile to fix the issue, it is now resolved. The problem is that these types of attacks are becoming more common. Websites these days are rapidly evolving and changing. Programmers are pressured into producing working code in the shortest amount of time leaving room for security flaws to be left un checked. Read more »

There comes a point where a site can have too many advertisements or there simply isn’t enough space for another ad. We also don’t want to distract our users from the content too much. This is where ad rotating can come in handy. With rotating you can have two ads displayed in the same space. Read more »