Tim Child

MobBlog:

first full test.

Came across the SavRow site a while ago but in my search for a new case I came across it again and they are making some mighty beatiful computers – and computers cannot often be labelled that not even the G5′s.

MobBlog:

gone.

MobBlog:

meT

MobBlog:

Tim and Jeanette

MobBlog:

Automatic Updates happening now!!

I have now got the Crontab(the process on a Unix box that will do a job at a submitted time) working for the Mobblog so I can of course now send and the blog will automatically pickup any entry every half an hour.

Basically an entry in cron is need so this is done by:

ssh into your servercrontab -e (this will edit the Crontab in Vi 

or create a new one if needed)01,31 * * * * /usr/local/bin/php -q 

/home/blog.timc3.com/myscript.php:wqcrontab -l (to check)cd /home/blog.timc3.comchmod +x myscript.php

Now that should be it really. In your PHP script you don’t really want any HTML or what ever and you should put an entry into the start of the file as:

#! /usr/local/bin/php

In the examples I have given I have changed the file names etc, so you should change them to your own. For debugging check out the Cron logs..

Well as you can probably see below I have updated this blog to now include Moblog entries, meaning that I can push entries straight from my mobile phone into the blog including photos that I have taken on my T610 Sony Ericsson. All it took was a script that can read a email box, PHP to be recompiled with imap and GD, plus the phone setup so that it can send email. Sweet huh! I will be putting the scripts up somewhere along with a tutorial at some point..

Great looking site and linked content at http://www.webstandardsawards.com/ which is aiming to further spread the message of using standards from the likes of http://www.webstandards.org/ and http://www.webstandardsgroup.org/ .

I like the way that the site is very clean, and the css is hiding some of the images such as the logo above from casual thiefs.. One of the outstanding sites linked deserves further mention and that is http://www.shauninman.com/. I love the use of Din for the Headline text, and the general cleaness of the site. His portfolio is also pretty sweet.

Well Mozilla Firefox is becoming my browser of choice nowdays and its because of tools like these that the decision is easy. Being able to do just a few of these things from an easily hidable browser bar makes life so easy for anyone involved in web page design I wonder whether I will ever go back to IE. But then again thats what we all said about the move from Netscape to IE 4 or 5 years ago.