All Posts Tagged With: "General"

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My fifteen minutes of fame (or how to get OPML into HTML)

A few days back as I was skimming through my plethora of rss feeds on Bloglines I came across a post from Tod Maffin looking for a programmer to write a simple script which would parse an OPML file of podcasts into HTML which could be included in a web page. The task was straightforward […]

May 26th, 2005 | Rasheq | 3 comments | Continued
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Code to determine the user’s offset from GMT


May 13th, 2005 | Rasheq | 1 comment | Continued
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The joy of open source

I was first drawn to open source by the promise of free software. Blogs I read and respected would suggest a GPL’d app which I would download, use and not think twice about as long they worked. Open source apps were like any other piece of software - the only difference was they didn’t cost […]

May 8th, 2005 | Rasheq | 0 comments | Continued
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Learning PHP

Now that I have my own domain and access to a server, I’ve been poking around with some cool open source apps. One of the first applications I installed was Wikka (formerly known as Wakka). Wikka is an Wiki written in PHP with some great features:

PHP and MYSQL make it lightweight and fast. (Okay […]

March 30th, 2005 | Rasheq | 1 comment | Continued
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Beginning again …

It seems like every few months I start and then stop blogging from a different location. After reading so much about blogging and its effect on the presidential election in the U.S., I jumped on the bandwagon in late November 2004 by starting a blog at blogger. It was fun for a while but I […]

March 27th, 2005 | Rasheq | 0 comments | Continued