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The G4 is Gone! Long Live the Macbook Pro!

Today, I sold my old Powerbook G4 to someone else, bringing to the end my first Mac laptop in the modern (post Jobs’ return to Apple) era. This Mac was where I learned to program PHP and run MYSQL queries, where I first blogged and built my first production level website - www.nybap.org. It lasted […]

April 6th, 2008 | Rasheq | 0 comments | Continued
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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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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