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CCorpSoft http://www.ccorpsoft.com Emanuel's Project Space en-US Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:38:57 -0700 http://www.ccorpsoft.com Time To Go: How to Export from MyBlogLog http://www.ccorpsoft.com/index.php?nav=news&article=article1263573537&offset=0 http://www.ccorpsoft.com/index.php?nav=news&article=article1263573537&offset=0 Its no secret that MyBlogLog has gotten some serious neglect in 2009, and based on <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_will_kill_mybloglog_next_month.php" target="_new">recent rumors</a> and <a href="http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/12/mybloglog_update.html" target="_new">Yahoo!'s own response</a>... it might be a good idea to export your data for safe keeping. Its no secret that MyBlogLog has gotten some serious neglect in 2009, and based on <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_will_kill_mybloglog_next_month.php" target="_new">recent rumors</a> and <a href="http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/12/mybloglog_update.html" target="_new">Yahoo!'s own response</a>... it might be a good idea to export your data for safe keeping. <a href="http://twitter.com/iankennedy" target="_new">Ian Kennedy</a> wrote a great <a href="http://everwas.com/2010/01/how-to-export-your-data-from-mybloglog.html" target="_new">blog post on how to export your data from MyBlogLog</a>. If you've got a MyBlogLog account, and you have a lot of data over there, I'd recommend giving it a read. Also, you can download the mbl_depart script he is talking about at the <a href="index.php?nav=projects&package=mbl_depart">mbl_depart project page</a> on ccorpsoft.com. Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:38:57 -0700 Goodbye Yahoo!, Hello SunRun http://www.ccorpsoft.com/index.php?nav=news&article=article1221593111&offset=0 http://www.ccorpsoft.com/index.php?nav=news&article=article1221593111&offset=0 Last month was my last month as a <a href="http://www.yahoo.com" target="_new">Yahoo!</a> employee. I was an engineer on the <a href="http://www.mybloglog.com" target="_new">MyBlogLog</a> team, and it was the most enjoyable job I've ever had (no joke). The last year with my team at Yahoo! was great, and I can't think of a single day I didn't enjoy working there. Last month was my last month as a <a href="http://www.yahoo.com" target="_new">Yahoo!</a> employee. I was an engineer on the <a href="http://www.mybloglog.com" target="_new">MyBlogLog</a> team, and it was the most enjoyable job I've ever had (no joke). The last year with my team at Yahoo! was great, and I can't think of a single day I didn't enjoy working there. <center><a href="http://www.mybloglog.com" target="_new"><img src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/mbl/mbl_logo_new.gif"></a></center> Yahoo! catches a lot of flack in the media, but anyone who has worked for Yahoo! knows how great the culture is, how enthusiastic, smart and kind the people who work there are. I mean, come on, <a href="http://flickr.com/search/?q=yahoo%20hackday&w=all" target="_new">hackdays</a>? Thats fucking awesome! I got the chance to work on some pretty cool stuff (like the reader roll on the right :)), worked with some great technology, learned a whole hell of a lot from my peers and was able to take part in a couple hackdays (thanks to Ian's ideas). Make no question about it, they've got a lot of talented individuals under their roof: <a href="http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/toddsampson/" target="_new">Todd Sampson</a> was a great boss to work for who actually knows code, <a href="http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/iankennedy/" target="_new">Ian Kennedy</a> always had great ideas, <a href="http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/thegreatexitor" target="_new">Chris Goffinet</a> is a God damn genius (and will probably succeed in what the sticky note on his monitor says), <a href="http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/steveho/" target="_new">Steve Ho</a> makes databases his bitch, <a href="http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/johnsampson/" target="_new">John Sampson</a> does color syntaxing in his head, <a href="http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/ram7os/" target="_new">Raymund Ramos</a> gave up sleep to ensure our systems were working at 3AM, <a href="http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/mani77_iitr/" target="_new">Mani</a> and <a href="http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/Saurabh_Sahni/" target="_new">Saurabh</a> broke down services like mad men, <a href="http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/Duzins/" target="_new">Robyn</a> who was a fantastic community manager for the time we worked together, and <a href="http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/misstillytilly/" target="_new">Tilly</a>.. well, words can't really describe how awesome she is-- always thinking of the community and new ideas, plus anyone who says "awesome possum" while being completely cheerful and bubbly every time you speak to them is an invaluable asset. <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/toddsampson/2422301330/" target="_new"><center><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3027/2422301330_701404be52_m.jpg"></center></a> If anyone is looking for a fantastic job, <a href="http://blog.mybloglog.com/my_weblog/2008/09/mybloglog-is-hi.html" target="_new">they're hiring</a>. As for me, I'm now the Manager of Web Development for <a href="http://www.sunrunhome.com" target="_new">SunRun Inc</a>. Wish me luck. ps: oh devel-random, how I'll miss thee. Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:25:11 -0700 New Host (part duex) http://www.ccorpsoft.com/index.php?nav=news&article=article1216790851&offset=0 http://www.ccorpsoft.com/index.php?nav=news&article=article1216790851&offset=0 I've had to switch hosts again, to the person who recommended startlogic.com: eat me. I've had to switch hosts again, to the person who recommended startlogic.com: eat me. I've had to contact these people weekly, sometimes more than that, since I've signed up with them. Every single time I will get a cookie cutter response, and the last straw was them telling me my sites are loading fine even though it was taking them up to 20 seconds to dump out a 20K page. Right. Horrible hosting, period. Avoid them like the plague. On a lighter note, my new host is much faster so everything should be snappier (<a href="http://disregard.me">disregard.me</a>, <a href="http://parcelplotr.com">parcelplotr.com</a>). Update: how did I miss this.. <a href="http://www.startlogicsucks.com" target="_new">startlogicsucks.com</a>?? Wed, 23 Jul 2008 0:27:31 -0700 New Development: disregard.me http://www.ccorpsoft.com/index.php?nav=news&article=article1216427316&offset=0 http://www.ccorpsoft.com/index.php?nav=news&article=article1216427316&offset=0 Recently the extension .ME was made public, so during the land rush I happened to grab <a href="http://disregard.me" target="_new">disregard.me</a> for fun! After a few hours work last night I have a rant website up. Recently the extension .ME was made public, so during the land rush I happened to grab <a href="http://disregard.me" target="_new">disregard.me</a> for fun! After a few hours work last night I have a rant website up. <center> <a href="http://disregard.me" target="_new"><img src="images/repository/disregardme.gif"></a> <a href="http://disregard.me" target="_new">visit disregard.me</a></center> Feel free to post any kind of rant you want! Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:28:36 -0700 New Development: parcelplotr.com http://www.ccorpsoft.com/index.php?nav=news&article=article1212690326&offset=0 http://www.ccorpsoft.com/index.php?nav=news&article=article1212690326&offset=0 Update: my new host isn't that reliable, so I made some modifications to my code to compensate for their network issues. Should be much more reliable now. Update: my new host isn't that reliable, so I made some modifications to my code to compensate for their network issues. Should be much more reliable now. The pet project yesterday's <a href="?nav=news&article=article1212611491">rant</a> was referring to is something I've been working on in my spare time over a few weekends. I've always been curious as to where my package travels to when it's in the courier's possession, and since <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/ajax/" target="_new">map APIs</a> are so well rounded now I decided I should just write up an application to do just that. <center><a href="http://www.parcelplotr.com" target="_new"><img src="images/repository/parcelplotr.png"></a> <a href="http://www.parcelplotr.com" target="_new">parcelplotr.com</a></center> At the moment it is very beta, but it does work and supports <a href="http://www.fedex.com" target="_new">FedEx</a> tracking numbers. If you want to try it out you can use: <blockquote>FedEx: 481404010034023 FedEx: 947046906133</blockquote> I'm going to add more couriers in the future, but I need tracking numbers to test with. So if you have any packages coming your way that aren't FedEx, please, send them to me so I can add more couriers to the service. The goal here is to have one central location to track your packages, regardless of who's carrying it. Be sure to send me your bugs! Thu, 5 Jun 2008 13:25:26 -0700 How To Lose a Customer http://www.ccorpsoft.com/index.php?nav=news&article=article1212611491&offset=0 http://www.ccorpsoft.com/index.php?nav=news&article=article1212611491&offset=0 I had to switch hosts today, it is not a fun process. I've been working on a new project for the past couple of weekends and just got it into a workable state, so naturally I want to test it live on the web-- the only issue is my (old) webhost, <a href="http://www.sunwave.com" target="_new">Sunwave</a> was running PHP4 and my code was in PHP5. On Sunday I put in a request to get it moved to PHP5, I was told that "someone was on the job". For the next couple of days the status remained "someone is on the job" whenever I would inquire about it. Fast forward to today and I'm no longer a customer. I had to switch hosts today, it is not a fun process. I've been working on a new project for the past couple of weekends and just got it into a workable state, so naturally I want to test it live on the web-- the only issue is my (old) webhost, <a href="http://www.sunwave.com" target="_new">Sunwave</a> was running PHP4 and my code was in PHP5. On Sunday I put in a request to get it moved to PHP5, I was told that "someone was on the job". For the next couple of days the status remained "someone is on the job" whenever I would inquire about it. Fast forward to today and I'm no longer a customer. The issue isn't that they were taking their sweet time to do it, or that there was a complete lack of communication; the problem was the complete lack of respect and rude behavior of the support representative towards their customer. The headers of the server showed "PHP 4.4.7", I was told "someone was on the job" for numerous days.. why in the world would I even begin to think that PHP5 was also on the server? What aggrivates me more is that whenever I did a website for a client I would suggest the hosting company to them. I've sent them a lot of business and for them to treat a customer this way just speaks loads of the company. Anyhoo, enough ranting.. here is the chat log.. Wed, 4 Jun 2008 15:31:31 -0700 New Development: snapple-fact http://www.ccorpsoft.com/index.php?nav=news&article=article1171584861&offset=0 http://www.ccorpsoft.com/index.php?nav=news&article=article1171584861&offset=0 So it's not a huge development, I actually just wrote it for fun because I love reading the back of my Snapple bottle caps, but it's something regardless-- and my site has been pretty idle for a while now so it needs some kind of new content ;) So it's not a huge development, I actually just wrote it for fun because I love reading the back of my Snapple bottle caps, but it's something regardless-- and my site has been pretty idle for a while now so it needs some kind of new content ;) <center><img src="images/repository/factbulb.gif"></center> Anyhoo, <a href="index.php?nav=projects&package=snapple-fact">snapple-fact</a> is a small script that will download a real fact from <a href="http://www.snapple.com" target="_new">snapple.com</a> and display it to the user. It also has the ability to loop (with a provided delay) and save facts to a file for later use. Feel free to download it at it's <a href="index.php?nav=projects&package=snapple-fact">project page here</a>. Here are a few facts I've collected while testing: 1: A goldfish's attention span is 3 seconds. 2: Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons. 3: Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes. 4: Slugs have 4 noses. 5: A camel has 3 eyelids. 6: A honey bee can fly at 15 miles per hour. 7: A queen bee can lay 800-1500 eggs per day. 8: A bee has 5 eyelids. 9: The average speed of a house fly is 4.5 miles per hour. 10: Mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas. Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:14:21 -0700 Google, Google and more Google http://www.ccorpsoft.com/index.php?nav=news&article=article1161298572&offset=0 http://www.ccorpsoft.com/index.php?nav=news&article=article1161298572&offset=0 So I've been pretty sick this past week, laying in bed eating soup and what not.. you know the usual sickly stuff. During this time I've been bored out of my mind! So I've been pretty sick this past week, laying in bed eating soup and what not.. you know the usual sickly stuff. During this time I've been bored out of my mind! Today I decided to write a quick little python script to query all the TLDs I could think of for Google-- I just needed to get some kind of coding in, I didn't really care what it was for as long as I wrote something. You can download the script <a href="downloads/google_tld.py">here</a> if you're curious; who knows, maybe someone will find another use for it. Anyhoo, I thumbnailed all the sites and uploaded them to <a href="http://www.photobucket.com" target="_new">Photobucket.com</a>. During this whole thing I found an interesting domain: <a href="http://www.google.vc" target="_new">google.vc</a>. It has that OSX toolbar that one of the Google engineers released a while ago but was short lived because Apple complaind (IIRC). I don't think the domain is owned by Google though, regardless its still an interesting collection of Google stuff. Ok on to the results, just to clarify they are organized alphabetically with the .co.xx TLDs at the end... I also included domains where Google wasn't the owner just for the hell of it. Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:56:12 -0700 Chernobyl Legacy http://www.ccorpsoft.com/index.php?nav=news&article=article1154618046&offset=0 http://www.ccorpsoft.com/index.php?nav=news&article=article1154618046&offset=0 I came across this <a href="http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essays/chernobyl.aspx" target="_new">audio/photo essay</a> yesterday about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl" target="_new">Chernobyl</a> and the aftermath twenty years later. It's really worth the watch if you're uninformed about the history of Chernobyl and have the time; really quite depressing to think they actually live like this now. I came across this <a href="http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essays/chernobyl.aspx" target="_new">audio/photo essay</a> yesterday about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl" target="_new">Chernobyl</a> and the aftermath twenty years later. It's really worth the watch if you're uninformed about the history of Chernobyl and have the time; really quite depressing to think they actually live like this now. <center>Click the image below to watch it.</center> <a href="http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essays/chernobyl.aspx" target="_new"><center><img src="images/repository/chernobyl.gif"></center></a> Update: fixed broken link. Thanks Mike! Thu, 3 Aug 2006 10:14:06 -0700 System Administrator Appreciation Day http://www.ccorpsoft.com/index.php?nav=news&article=article1154102411&offset=0 http://www.ccorpsoft.com/index.php?nav=news&article=article1154102411&offset=0 Today is <a href="http://www.sysadminday.com/" target="_new">System Administrator Appreciation Day</a>, have you hugged your sysadmin lately? Today is <a href="http://www.sysadminday.com/" target="_new">System Administrator Appreciation Day</a>, have you hugged your sysadmin lately? <a href="http://www.sysadminday.com" target="_new"><center><img src="http://www.sysadminday.com/images/atefiles-234x60.gif"></center></a> I was entered as the <a href="http://www.sysadminoftheyear.com/" target="_new">2006 Sysadmin of the Year</a>; turns out I was one of the first 2500 to be entered so I got a <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/coder/8769/" target="_new">free shirt</a>! Woo! Luckily I don't look like the <a href="http://www.sysadminoftheyear.com/images/saoty/bg_silhouette.jpg" target="_new">guy</a> on the front page, yikes.. but then again I'm not really a sysadmin, the company I code for is small so I just happen to handle that area as well. I'm going to give you all some valuable advice: never let on that you know more than the field your in. You'll thank me later. Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:00:11 -0700

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