Writing

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

Jan 2009

Brain Dump

Promoting Wordpress Plugins

So a couple days ago I finalized the beta of a new Wordpress plugin: wp-click-track. But, well, no one knows…

Jan 2009

Getting back your domain

A while ago I used to own the domain ericlamb.com and all was good in the world. The sun came…

Jan 2009

Programming, Code

Wordpress Plugin in 12 hours

In “Why I’m writing my own blog system” I announced my plans to build a custom blog platform. Seeing as…

Jan 2009

Programming, Code

A journey into php-cli and scraping

I recently had a couple days to myself and I wanted to experiment more with this php-cli thing I’d been…

Dec 2008

Brain Dump

AT&T Phone Codes

Apparently, you can check your balance, your usage and pay your wireless bill from your phone if you have AT&T.…

Dec 2008

Rant

phpclasses.org hates me

One of my favorite time killers is going to phpclasses.org and window shop for code. Sure, a lot of the…

Dec 2008

Brain Dump

mkdir tip

Ok, maybe I feel stupid for not knowing this but check this out. When you want to create multiple directories…

Nov 2008

Programming

phpdocumentor cheat sheet

I’ve been documenting my code in phpdoc style for a while and have compiled a cheat sheet of common tasks…

Nov 2008

Servers

Fix for "convert: no decode delegate for this image format "

While working with ImageMagick on one of my servers I was getting the following error: convert: no decode delegate for…

Nov 2008

Servers

Install Imagemagick from source on CENTOS 1386 4.5

Execute “wget ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick.tar.gz” to download the tarball. Execute “tar xvfz ImageMagick.tar.gz” to extract the tarball. Execute “cd ImageMagick-x.x.x” to change…

Nov 2008

Servers

Mount HD Linux

Setting up: Run fdisk -l. This will show what hard drives are available for mounting. Next, execute “fdisk /dev/DRIVE_NAME” to…

Oct 2008

Programming

Add additional sites to IIS

Straight up, I’m a LLMP developer with a twist; I love me some Linux, Lighttpd, MySQL and PHP. I’ll save…

Oct 2008

Programming

Why I'm writing my own blog system

When I first had the idea of starting a blog I of course went looking at some of the open…

Oct 2008

Brain Dump

About Me

Who are you? My name is Eric Lamb and I’m a programmer living in Los Angeles. I’ve been writing code…