Hi there! Welcome to our blog. Don’t forget to sign up for our free RSS feed. We Triple Dog Dare Ya! And thanks for visiting!One of my favorite movies of all time is The Magnificent Seven. You just can’t go wrong with this movie. The theme music (later repurposed to great effect by the [...]
Entries from October 2005
The Bernardo O’Reilly Factor
October 7th, 2005 No Comments
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Guerilla Content Strategy
October 6th, 2005 No Comments
I’m not one to bandy about terms like “guerrilla this” and “guerrilla that” mainly because I think that most of the folks who tell you they want you to practice “guerrilla marketing” really want you to use more direct mail instead of TV ads. Blech.
However, we get quite a few questions here about content strategy. [...]
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A simple script to sort HTTP access log by IP address
October 4th, 2005 No Comments
Sometimes you need to know how many times any particular host is hitting your web site. In fact, you may need to know who your top 10 (or 20 or 50) referers are. When working on a project back East, I came up with a quick Perl script to analyze Apache’s access_log file and give [...]
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Recursively searching for a string in UNIX
October 2nd, 2005 1 Comment
Have you ever had to look for an elusive variable or function name in your code? Are you developing on UNIX or Linux? Then you’re in luck, because you have any number of ways to find every single file that contains the string you’re looking for.
The first way involves the use of xargs, a command [...]
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