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Shopping with convenience (for us developers, that is)

Sam — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:34:35 +0000

I don’t normally post my nerdy tid-bits here, but we did something totally cool today.
We built a pseudo-purchasing system (ie shopping / “add to cart”) revolving entirely around functionality in an ORM and PHP’s built in session handling.

The beauty of it all, is that once our logic validates the cart is ready and all processing is done, all that is required is calling $object->save();, and the ORM takes care of persisting it all.

I’m a little inspired with how easy this was, and how well it really worked (it seriously was awesome).. I’m going to put some thought into other ways that code libraries that I already use can be put to use with their “in the box” features, but in an “outside the box” kind of way.

in need of a new domain

Sam — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:18:08 +0000

Wanting to do some self-marketing today, I’ve gone on a domain hunt. After registering a couple of joke domains, and transferring some of my other domains to a new provider, it doesn’t seem like I’ve really gotten anywhere. Who the hell would want to own my named domains? Check. these. out.
Stupid internet squatters. None of them seem to be in use at all. Blah! I’m stuck on ideas of what to register.

Hey cyberstalkers, any ideas?

Argh!

Sam — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:04:02 +0000

Seems when work did a batch of recent DNS updates, they put my site on the wrong IP addresses, and subsequently it was redirect looping. Uh-oh.

Fixed it for now, although I need to remember to fix it for good tomorrow (few more settings).

In other news, WordPress 2.6 is out and I need to update. I updated my test site I have stored locally and everything seems to have run normally. I’m loving the wiki-like revisions features, very very nice. I’m going to try updating tomorrow morning

bleh

Sam — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:52:37 +0000

So I killed my server, again. Interestingly though I found out that I can do SVN and trac from my Dreamhost account, and I do most coding stuff on MAMP locally anyway (it’s easier than scp’ing files over…)

On to funsies now, philage sent me a heap of demotivation posters …

which I quickly forwarded on to Benn. We all know why.

Going to Melbourne next week, could be interesting.. Maybe not. PJ and Lucy have already put in orders for Krispy Kreme … haha.

Oh and I’m also playing with making WordPress plugins now.. I made a simple one that uses twitter‘s API to pull my tweets down, and I’m playing with WP2.5.. The new interface is so pretty!

over it

Sam — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 03:50:45 +0000

I just checked my iiNet email address today.

Several months ago I got annoyed at how badly their spam filters operate, so I decided to try out something. I set my ii-Email to forward through to an address hosted here (@chasm, somewhere way down in the depths), which is provided by work.

Since I use Thunderbird for most of my mail, it also does it’s spam thing, and learns really quickly and easily what is and isn’t junk. After about 3 weeks of using it, I was confident in it enough to set it to automatically move out email it thought it was spam to another folder.

There was a reason for this, of course: I could compare inboxes.
Also since my email was being stored at both ends, I could be confident that it wasn’t being lost in the second forward.

Periodically (almost every day-ish), I would log into my iiNet webmail and clear out the legit emails that I had received at the chasm end. I don’t think I’ve lost any yet.

In the several months since I set this up (I think I did it early June), I’ve received 11 emails through that were spam.

Compared to my iiNet email, where I’ve received over 1100 (14.2 MB worth) in the last 6 weeks.

Now I definately think that there are better spam management softwares out there than anything made by the same company that makes Norton Antivirus, but work uses a free one.
Ironic huh? ii pay lots and lots of money for a system that rarely works, work pays nothing, and it works perfectly.

16 times nerdier… unless it’s hexxed

Sam — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:49:38 +0000

Conversation at work… went something like this:

benni: how do we white lable the dns information?
Sam: well you get some whiteout
Sam: cover your screen where the DNS says dns1.ilisys.com.au
Sam: and then get your pen and write “dns.somedomain.com”
Sam:
Sam: white and labelled.
phil: haw haw
Damian: should be wiki-ed
*yells across the office: my one? really?*
Damian: not the sam-parody, the real ones
Sam: can we put mine there too?
Damian: only on star trek holidays
Sam: hmmmm
Sam: wikipedia doesn’t have a list of star trek holidays!!!!
* Damian points out it’s an obscure west wing reference
Sam: and i was seriously looking forward to national vulcan day
Sam: it could be similar to talk like a pirate day
phil: except 10000 times nerdier
Sam: yeah well in binary that’s only 16 times nerdier!!!
phil: that is still a lot nerdier

and if it’s hexxed… then not only is it going straight to hell, but it’s also 2710.