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Blucasting

2006-11-12T19:09:15+01:00

Bluecasting is a specific form of wp>proximity marketing using Bluetooth to push some form of content to passing devices. Following reasonably extensive Googling - I've found a lot of marketing companies saying what they use it for, but not much content about how to rig it up - probably because only commercial entities are normally interested in doing this; so I'm going to have to work it out myself.

Detecting Haldheld Devices

2009-10-14T13:09:49+01:00

According to reccommended best practice (references below) and common sense, it's a good idea to deliver suitable content and styling to each device (adaptation) rather than relying on LCD (lowest common denominator) i.e. sending the same content to everything and trying to make it work.

PHP Dropdown class

2008-01-21T16:31:51+01:00

/* * * Base class is extended with actual values * extended again with _<2 char langauge> for langauage versions * * use ddClass() to return a language specific instance of the base class * (defined at bottom of this file) * */ class Dropdown_Title extends Dropdown { public $value = array( '' => 'Please select ...', 'Mr' => 'Mr', 'Mrs' => 'Mrs', 'Miss' => 'Miss', 'Ms' => 'Ms', ); } // class Dropdown_Title class Dropdown_Title_de extends D…

Using Amazon EC2

2008-03-03T15:57:53+01:00

Preparation * Sign up for an Amazon AWS account, and the EC2 service * Get the EC2 Firefox UI extension for Firefox (lazy, but so much easier!) * Load your AWS access key and secret into a new set of credentials * In 'KeyPairs' tab create a new keypair and save the PEM to somewhere like C:\ec2\mykey.pem * In 'Security Groups' create a group permission Source CIDR 0.0.0.0/0 TCP/IP 22 (unless you want to lock SSH access down to specific IP addresses and CIDR 0.0.0.0/0 TCP 80 assumin…

File Encryption

2009-10-14T13:09:49+01:00

Truecrypt First things first - trucrypt is the dogs whatsits. Works fantastically on Windows with a nice gui, you need to run it from the command line in Linux, but it works great on my Ubuntu Edgy box. Mounting existing: jimw@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ mkdir tc jimw@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ truecrypt -u /media/usbdisk/encrypted.file ~/Desktop/tc Enter password for '/media/usbdisk/encrypted.file':

Hiding Email

2008-02-26T10:59:23+01:00

function hideEmail($email) { // obfuscates email address to hinder bots // usage: hideEmail('jim@povich.co.uk'); list ($mailbox, $domain) = explode('@',$email); echo << EOM; }

Internationalisation and Localisation

2009-10-14T13:09:49+01:00

Apache .htaccess / httpd.conf # move option 2 char country and lang codes to get variables RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^([a-z]{2})/([a-z]{2})/(.*)$ /$3?c=$1&l=$2 [NC,L,QSA] RewriteRule ^([a-z]{2})/(.*)$ /$2?c=$1 [NC,L,QSA] RewriteRule ^([a-z]{2})$ /?c=$1 [NC,L,QSA]

mobile

2009-10-14T13:09:50+01:00

Links I wish I'd found sooner: * Network/Internet Utilities Detecting Haldheld Devices

MythTV

2006-12-31T20:28:23+01:00

Install I've installed Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft on a Dell Dimension 8250, 1GB RAM, 600GB drive with a Radeon 7000 64MB display card (until I get someting better) I've got a Hauppauge PVR-250 so I need to install IVTV Next is MythTV itself - I've done this a few times now, and most consistent results come from following the MythTV Ubuntu Installation Guide although I do have to ignore the DVB bits for the IVTV install above - perhaps I'll add a DVB card soon.

Backup Windows XP to a spare linux box

2009-10-14T13:09:50+01:00

Linux to Linux would be easy using rsync - here's a Windows rsync client I'm going to try... On my FC5 box, as root $ mkdir /var/rsync $ mkdir /var/rsync/backup $ chmod 777 /var/rsync/backup $ nano /etc/rsyncd.conf use chroot = no [backup] path = /var/rsync/backup read only = no comment = backup area $ system-config-securitylevel Add rsync:tcp $ rsync --daemon

Wiki

2007-11-18T18:35:14+01:00

Top Tens * Sites * Films * Bourbon Most Recent * Films seen at the cinema * Albums played as they should be (on vinyl) Projects * Blucasting * Mobile * Detecting Haldheld Devices * MythTV * Unslung Subversion * Trundle II

SVN Tricks

2008-04-10T19:44:56+01:00

Change a log message First, make a post-commit $ cd /var/lib/svn/test/hooks $ sudo cp pre-revprop-change.tmpl pre-revprop-change $ sudo chmod 755 pre-revprop-change $ sudo chown www-data pre-revprop-change $ sudo chgrp www-data pre-revprop-change

To Do

2009-10-14T13:09:51+01:00

* PHP Database Class * PHP error handling * style this wiki!

Unslung Subversion

2007-08-26T11:57:05+01:00

First unsling your NSLU2 Then, install ssh, apache, lynx and svn Check apache's running: lynx localhost:8000 Create an svn repository: svnadmin create /jaydublu/svn location of httpd.conf: /opt/etc/apache2/httpd.conf location of DocumentRoot /opt/share/www