Archive for July, 2007
MySpace Preferred Reader List
Are you as nosy as me? Do any of your MySpace friends have blogs that only their ‘preferred’ friends can read? Does this hurt your feelings and make you want to send them a frowny face?! Well, here’s a little bit of code that can help, and the steps it took to create it. It will add you to anyone’s preferred list that looks at your profile, providing one little requirement is met.
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What is Open Source?
A few days ago I had this crazy idea that open source was like the “science” of the software world. It could be openly analyzed for bugs and defects. Anyone could update it or change it for the better (hopefully) provided you took the time to understand the code. Many more people will eventually be analyzing your code for defects and improving it. Arguably Windows is the “bible,” it is set in stone and must maintain backwards compatibility with previous versions. You cannot make any feature changes to it and you certainly can’t fix bugs. What you can do is tell them about a problem bug and hopefully they will fix it (which is unlike the bible). Now to avoid a religious debate which I don’t feel like having I am only being general about the topic. The bible is old and static and science on the other hand is a self-correcting process.
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Unattended Installations In Windows With AutoIT
Last summer I started working on a project for unattended installations written in AutoIT. AutoIT is a very simple scripting language that was originally written to automate installing programs. It has been expanded to be able to do more than just simple automation. It also has its own IDE which uses SciTE. Features include syntax highlighting, code completion and a very nice help with examples for each function. I have even written a very lightweight FTP client, (not full featured) to replace using Microsoft’s FTP client and Expect for work.
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Tokyo Breakfast
When I first started my website years ago it had no real purpose, much like it is today. Funny movies and images seemed to be scarce for me. I pretty much saved everyone of them I came across and started to put them on my site. There was flash, movies and pictures and for sometime I had a consistent amount of traffic. In fact, I was told that I had a large amount of a school visiting my site for the flash games. I didn’t realize nor take advantage of the possibilities of having a website. I was against using ads since I didn’t own the content I was serving. I didn’t watermark them either (which is just plain wrong), but I should have at least tried to generate enough money to pay for hosting costs.
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MySpace Filters All External Links Now
Today I decided to update my “myspace” page and I discovered that some of my YouTube links weren’t working. After a closer look I noticed all my links were now changed to point to www.msplinks.com. At first I was shocked and my only thoughts were that I got owned, but how? I tried a few other links and they still pointed to the correct locations. That made it even more strange for me, so I decided to do a quick Google search. Seems that MySpace started doing this to the links in comments a while ago and now they changed it to rewrite all links. There are somethings that are not affected (yet?) including img and object tags.
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