Writing

After all these years, there's a DEEP ocean of projects and systems mitra62 has been involved with.

Apr 2009

Brain Dump

Scrub Your Bulkmail List NOW!

In How to Not Suck at Email Campaigns I completely left out a HUGE part of not sucking; scrubbing your…

Apr 2009

Brain Dump

Looking Back on 6 Months of Blogging

My first post was on October 21st 2008 and after 6 months my blog is still not getting much traffic.…

Apr 2009

Programming, Code

Manipulate Zip Files with PHP

Back in the olden days the easiest way to create zip files using php was to have the operating system…

Apr 2009

Programming, Code

HTML_QuickForm Validation Functions

I’ve been using HTML_QuickForm for, what feels like, forever. I’m happy to say that I haven’t, manually, written a form…

Apr 2009

Brain Dump, Servers

How to Not Suck at Email Campaigns

One of the most frequent IT related tasks I have to deal with are email issues. Spam is a big…

Mar 2009

Programming, Code

Google Visualization API Primer

The Google Visualization API is a JavaScript API for creating those fancy graphs and charts Google displays in all their…

Mar 2009

Programming, Code

PhpDelicious: Wrapper for del.icio.us API

Here’s a cool little php class for managing a delicious feed; PhpDelicious. According to the official site: PhpDelicious is a…

Mar 2009

AxCrypt File Encryption for Windows

AxCrypt is a pretty nice open source (OSS) encryption program for Windows. What makes me want to write about it…

Mar 2009

AxCrypt File Encryption for Windows

AxCrypt is a pretty nice open source (OSS) encryption program for Windows. What makes me want to write about it…

Mar 2009

AxCrypt File Encryption for Windows

AxCrypt is a pretty nice open source (OSS) encryption program for Windows. What makes me want to write about it…

Mar 2009

AxCrypt File Encryption for Windows

AxCrypt is a pretty nice open source (OSS) encryption program for Windows. What makes me want to write about it…

Mar 2009

AxCrypt File Encryption for Windows

AxCrypt is a pretty nice open source (OSS) encryption program for Windows. What makes me want to write about it…

Mar 2009

AxCrypt File Encryption for Windows

AxCrypt is a pretty nice open source (OSS) encryption program for Windows. What makes me want to write about it…

Mar 2009

AxCrypt File Encryption for Windows

AxCrypt is a pretty nice open source (OSS) encryption program for Windows. What makes me want to write about it…

Mar 2009

AxCrypt File Encryption for Windows

AxCrypt is a pretty nice open source (OSS) encryption program for Windows. What makes me want to write about it…

Mar 2009

AxCrypt File Encryption for Windows

AxCrypt is a pretty nice open source (OSS) encryption program for Windows. What makes me want to write about it…

Mar 2009

Rant

For your Perspective: My Email Hell

I was walking down the hall the other day when I heard one of the employees complaining about how much…

Mar 2009

Programming, Code

Smarty Relative Datetime Modifier

In Extending the Smarty Template Engine I outlined the steps needed to create all the varieties of plugins for the…

Mar 2009

Programming

Starting to Develop For Blackberries

I’ve been using a Blackberry for a few years now; ever since I started working at StreetWise again. We use…

Mar 2009

Programming, Code

Extending the Smarty Template Engine

One of the nicest parts about working with the Smarty Template Engine is it’s extensibility. The developers of Smarty had…

Mar 2009

Programming, Code

Using the FriendFeed API with PHP

Dissenting opinion: I don’t like social networking as a consumer. I just find the whole thing pretty stupid; meeting people…

Mar 2009

Brain Dump

Video Trace

Here’s something quick from The Australian Centre for Visual Technologies that I’ve been keeping my eye on for over a…

Mar 2009

Code

iTunes Data Wordpress Widget

Here’s just a quick announcement for a new WordPress widget I’ve written call iTunes Data. It’s a sidebar widget that…

Mar 2009

Programming, Rant, Code

Language Select Screens Die!

One of the things I’ve done way too much of is the creation of language select pages. These are the…