MySpace bulletins to RSS

September 27th, 2007 by Aaron

So I’m sick of myspace… or so I say to myself. So now I log in about half the time as I did before… and this is because I’ve made the following script. It logs in and grabs each bulletin from your top bulletins. Then, it creates an RSS feed from them.

Lets check it out:

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Create Google Advanced Search String

September 25th, 2007 by Aaron

I found an interesting article about the parameters of the advanced search URL for google. Just for fun, I tested out their concepts and they were all true. I figured maybe there was a reason to do this as a PHP class (I think I was just bored…).

You can find the code here:

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Add Event Viewer to My Computer Right-Click

September 19th, 2007 by Aaron

Just wanted to note this awesome registry change that you could apply to get a right-click menu on my computer that allows direct access to the event viewer in windows xp.

eventviewer.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

;Adds Add/Remove to right click of MY Computer
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Event Viewer\command]
@="eventvwr"

Cross Domain AJAX - A quick anatomy of a mashup

September 19th, 2007 by Aaron

So after searching the Internet for some cross domain AJAX stuff, I noticed two interesting articles. The first was the specifics of writing these queries (located here). Then, the next gave a breakdown of how this might be useful in a mash-up collaborative sense (here).

The one missing point was how the collaboration should occur. There is talk about same parent domain but I think everyone’s forgetting about the DNS/webserver changes that need to happen.

In order to prove my concept on my windows box, I set up the examples. In that previous example, domain D had a subdomain of D_s which pointed to E.

I determined what the IP address of E was and entered that into my hosts file (I don’t have access to a DNS server at the moment) followed by the subdomain D_s.

Next, using apache, I found the virtual host for E, and put in ‘ServerAlias D_s’. This will make sure that the incoming connection to that IP will also respond to that sub domain.

I just wanted to jot this down to help fill in the hole I noticed.

Create an RSS feed of comments from myspace

September 8th, 2007 by Aaron

Lately, I’ve been trying to find ways to reduce the amount of time I spend on stupid sites like myspace (nevermind the fact that the time it took to reduce this amount took me enough time to visit myspace 1x a day for another month - heh). At any rate, I’ve been using Google Reader alot more (I’m up to 180 or so feeds) and I thought: Why don’t I make an RSS feed o my comments - then I don’t have to go back to the site when someone sends me a comment. (Mind you, myspace does send you an e-mail when you receive a comment, but doesn’t include the content. JEMDiary does, however ;)) I searched the internet and found a few sites that are doing that for a service, and one guy who was giving away a regular expression. So, I took his idea and wrote my own php script for cron. Check it out here:

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Pass PHP session to a new script using fsockopen

September 6th, 2007 by Aaron

I was working on a script that opened up a new connection to the same server with fsockopen to process a php script. It passed the variables needed through GET and then gathered the output. Finally, it displayed the output on the screen under the current context.

I ran into an issue where now I needed to set a session variable in my calling script, but make the same session information available to the called script (the called script starts its own session too).

This is how I did it:

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