Shawn Donley’s BLOG

You don’t honestly think I have the time or ambition to create these great looking posts do you? Especially when I cannot even spare a few moments to get the stupid spell checker to work correctly in WordPress… anyways, this is very slick. The following explains the whole thing:

http://skattertech.com/2007/02/word-07-supports-wordpress/

cron is a unix, solaris utility that allows tasks to be automatically run in the background at regular intervals by the cron daemon. These tasks are often termed as cron jobs in unix , solaris.

Crontab (CRON TABle) is a file which contains the schedule of cron entries to be run and at specified times.

The following link gives some details on how to use the command. I am constantly looking this up.

http://www.adminschoice.com/docs/crontab.htm

A very common task for a cgi script is to be able to inform a set of users with data generated by itself or other programs, cgi’s or not. For example, you might be one of the web designers who have joined one of the myriad of free counter programs on the internet that email you with nice statistics and reports about your web pages’ traffic. Systems like that are responsible for informing such a large number subscribers that sending the reports manually would require a full-time employee devoted to this task only. Obviously this wouldn’t be a sensible option even for a relatively large organization.

The following post has some great documentation on this…

http://www.perlfect.com/articles/sendmail.shtml

Just a quick reference link to the PHP manual for the number_format function.  Use this all the time, but for some reason always seem to forget the syntax.

http://us3.php.net/number_format

Sometimes you run into an issue where you need to override the CSS for the page. Instead of defining a new CSS or adding it to the page (which would change those elements on the page) you can use an inline style which would override all of the mentioned previous. The following link is a tutorial that will explain how to actually do this correctly.

http://www.tizag.com/cssT/inline.php

Dealing with the time filed in MySQL is a little tricky.  The following tutorial explains how to deal with it a little better in PHP. 

http://www.tizag.com/mysqlTutorial/mysql-time.php

I came across an interesting scenerio during the development of yourEZvideo.com where I wanted to do a zip backup behind the scenes on the website, but I didn’t have a command line zip program.  The following came in handy since the main video server was originally designed on a Windows box.  Since the development, it has been moved to Linux.

http://www.stahlforce.com/dev/index.php?tool=zipunzip

The following is a blog for the PayPal development team.  There is some useful information on this blog if you are using PayPal as your shopping cart.  In order to gain access you need to register on the blog.

http://www.pdncommunity.com/

The following is a great link to help with a printer friendly version of a page. In this example it is a printer friendly version of a WordPress page. I’m going to incorporate this into the documentation pages I am currently working on at the school.

http://www.aleeya.net/wordpress/css-printer-friendly-for-wordpress/aleeyaprint/

FFMpeg is a command line utility that can be used to convert videos from one format to another.  I have played with the utility extensively to convert videos into the .FLV format for a  website that I have been working it.  I also use it to create a .jpg thumbnail out of the video file. 

FFMpeg is the utility used as the conversion engine for http://www.yourezvideo.com. The following link is to the documentation page for FFMpeg.

http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg-doc.html