Links as a result of a golf outing

July 7th, 2008
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Just a short entry to capture the many geek related things Jon Gordon (twitter) and I talked about on the course yesterday:

If I think of any more, I’ll be sure to add them!

Fortune Tweet

December 12th, 2007
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I was really missing those sweet little fortunes you used to get when logging in to an old school linux terminal way back in the 90’s. So, I went ahead and downloaded the latest fortune app via YUM on a CentOS box I have, and then wrote a little PHP script that posts fortunes to the Twitter API on the hour, every hour.

You can follow the fortunes here:

http://twitter.com/fortunetweet

And you can follow me here:

http://twitter.com/ten7

All in only 18 lines of code. Enjoy!

goinc 1.2 - minor tweaks

May 2nd, 2007
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so i have had some interest lately about adding certain features to goinc. and as a result, i am making some time to actually following through with the requests. among the features to be added is displaying information from the team stats pages, as well as support for a larger list of boinc projects out there. if there are any other requests before this next round of upgrades, please let me know.

this minor release puts some shameless self-promotion on the gadget, as well as the ability to donate money to me via paypal. if you like the gadget, donate a few bucks to me to keep me motivated and to keep me updating GOINC with new features.

oh. and i also changed the font.

moving hosting providers

January 20th, 2007
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i am moving hosting companies. as a result, you might see some funky data in your trend lines. all your data might seem to disappear, or, just the last few days. this is normal and expected while the dns entries transition the domain from one provider to another. as soon as the dns has caught up, i will merge the databases in both providers, and all trend data should get restored.

more on why i’m moving, and the ordeal that i had with bluehost in a later post. once i have all data off their servers. woooosh.

update: move is complete. all went well… stay tuned for reasons why a goooood web host is hard to find.

goinc 1.1 — host info added

November 26th, 2006
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tweaked a few minor things, but the biggest change is the ability to monitor hosts by user if you enter the account key (authentication token) instead of the integer user id. the account key is a 32 character hexadecimal number that the project provides to you. if you’ve lost or forgotten your key, you can have the project send you a copy to your email. check the permanent goinc info and help page too, for more information.

this is now goinc 1.1; url has not changed. please add a new module/gadget to your google homepage, if you are still using the old version - prior to 1.0, including 0.1 and 0.2.

the gadget url is

http://stegic.net/gm/goinc-xml/goinc.xml

as always, talk to me if you have any questions or concerns!

GOINC XML - 1.0

November 19th, 2006
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just finished updating goinc. major new enhancements:

  1. faster: true, asynchronous client-side data retrieval.
  2. smaller: updated css to allow more data on screen, less clutter.
  3. by user project selection: monitor users from different projects, not just one project at a time.

i’m labelling this 1.0, a jump from 0.2 - the functionality for goinc is pretty complete. i would like to add host per user information, but i might not get to that for a while. so, 1.0 it is.

the url of 1.0 is http://stegic.net/gm/goinc-xml/goinc.xml and is available immediately.

here’s a screenshot of what it looks like:

added BBC CPDN to supported projects

April 9th, 2006
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someone in wales requested support for the BBC CPDN project on GOINC… and hey presto! support for BBC CPDN enjoy!

goinc on googlemodules.com

March 15th, 2006
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just listed GOINC on googlemodules.com, here’s the link

http://www.googlemodules.com/module/507/

new functionality for goinc? what to add?

March 12th, 2006
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so i’ve been thinking about new functionality for goinc. after looking at my web logs i’ve discovered that people are using goinc to keep track of themselves on more than one project, instead of the same project across different user id’s. every userid that you are monitoring should be associated with its own project. i think i’ll put this in the next version.

any other suggestions?

(sorry, you’ll have to register to comment: spam is *killing* me.)

GOINC Ver. 0.2 - Notes

February 11th, 2006
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GOINC has only been out for a few days, and no one really knows about it (which is probably a good thing right now!) so releasing an update to it is probably not a big deal. But, there are some major improvements:

  1. List of supported BOINC projects now stored in a database and not hard-coded.
  2. Addition of trend charts (sparkline!) to the module using sparkline.org
  3. User preferences in module can now
    • switch trend lines on or off
    • select the number of previous bars (history) to display in the trend chart
    • select the color of trend chart bars
  4. Added the date/time the page was generated
  5. Added a link to project’s homepage on the project’s name on top
  6. Data is now being stored to a database as users view the module, creating history per user, per project — being used for the trending.
  7. Added Version number to footer.
  8. Added trend line footer text.

The module is available in Google’s Base (because it’s fassstt!) at

http://base.google.com/base/a/1165266/4990208565765644587

http://stegic.net/gm/goinc-xml/goinc.xml

with the supported projects still being

  • ClimatePrediction.net
  • Einstein@Home
  • LHC@Home
  • Predictor@Home
  • Rosetta@Home
  • SETI@Home

Here’s a screenshot of the latest UI

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