cruzinthegalaxie a day in the life of

New site

Alex Barger — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:30:42 +0000

I am starting a new site. I thought that I would use this one as my personal site, however want to do some customizations to wordpress. So I decided to stetup a separate site where I could set it up the way I wanted. So this will be the new home fo Cruzinthegalaxie

Skrape – my first wordpress plugin

Alex Barger — Sun, 07 May 2006 14:00:22 +0000

Check it out. I made my first release of a wordpress plugin I started working on a little while ago.

What does it do? It uses the PHP CURL extension to login to a remote website to harvest (aka scrape) content and import it into WordPress on a scheduled task.

Why would you want to do that? Well for example I have an account at a particular website that requires me to login to read the new content each day. I wanted to setup a scheduled task to login and retrieve that content and insert it into my beer club members blog. So that is exactly what this plugin does.

Enjoy!

http://www.4devz.com/skrape/

In the begining…

Alex Barger — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 21:26:06 +0000

For my first post, you would think that I would regergitate my entire life story. Instead, how about I describe what I might post in the future.
At my place of employment we have several systems I am in charge of working on, maintaining and so forth. I hope to post info that will be usefull to those in similar senerios as me, so that you can learn from my mistakes or gain knowledge from my research.

Projects/Sytems

Linux administration, installation, troubleshooting
Thin Client deployment, configuration, and further enhancements
LTSP custimizations
Single System Image Clustering with Linux
Cisco Callmanager maintenance and troubleshooting
Asterisk Phone Sytem testing and deployment
Asterisk integration with Cisco CallManager via SIP Trunking
VoIP SIP Termination with either Cisco or Asterisk
VoIP recording for quality and training purposes
Server topics in general.
Migrating away from Microsoft products and moving towards opensource alternatives.
Web developement tricks within the LAMP stack

I will also post other rantings, raves, and experiences I have with my other online adventures. Upcoming… I investigate options for one-off on-demand personalized products. I hope to find a site that will allow me to automate, but will look at some of the popular ones first. Out of the sites I found so far cafepress, zazzle, and printmojo look the most appealing. I am going to check out cafepress and see how it works out.