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Bookmarklet For emailURL.com and anonURL.com

by damonp on June 27, 2007

in Sites

I created the two URL shortening services: emailURL.com and anonURL.com several years ago as a side project to support another side project. It’s a great service that allows you to create short URLs that don’t break in email messages. How many times has someone replied to an email saying the link you provided doesn’t work. In most cases its a matter of manually copying and pasting the parts of the link that were broken by the word wrapping. With emailURL.com its simple to create a short url that works everywhere.

I use these services every day but I never made it easy for someone else create shortened URLs. Today, I added a bookmarklet on both site’s home pages to facilitate usage.

To make it easy to integrate into other projects, I have built a SOAP API to call the create functions remotely. Stay tuned for more details after we complete beta testing.

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Zencart Inventory Report Update v0.9.2

by damonp on March 18, 2007

in Ecommerce,Sites,Software

Feedback from users prompted me to add an extra column to the report display… the master category. The master_category_id is listed in the products table and is generally the category the product was originally created in (unless changed later). The report won’t show every category a product is listed in if the product has been linked to multiple categories.

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Thanks to Ron for the donation to help out with these feature additions.

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Quick and Dirty MySQL Backup Script

14 March 2007

I previously posted a Quick and Dirty MySQL Backup snippet that has gotten a bit of traffic. It works well in a pinch, but it doesn’t have any features. I use it primarily as a safety backup when performing maintenance on a MySQL server. Several of my clients have requested a script that they can [...]

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WordPress Revision History Plugin

12 March 2007

Editing a post is a necessity from time to time, especially with any type of coding related blog. I particularly like to keep older posts up to date with revised download links as new versions are released. This prevents a user following a link off of a search engine to an old post and downloading [...]

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ZenCart Inventory Report – Updated

10 March 2007

Thanks to Ron for posting a bug back on the Zencart forums about my Zencart Inventory Report Fixed… download… enjoy.

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Versions.sh – Shell Script to Find Installed Versions of Major Server Daemons

26 February 2007

I look at a lot of servers throughout the day. When taking a first look at a server it’s always helpful to know what versions of Apache, PHP and MySQL installed. I use Versions.sh to get the low down on one screen. [root@servername root]# versions.sh Linux <em>servername</em> 2.4.21-27.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Dec 1 21:59:02 EST [...]

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Qmhandle Short Display Option

12 February 2007

Qmhandle is a Perl tool to aid in the management of the Qmail mailer daemon and queue. I sometimes use it to flush the queue, restart Qmail (or Apache, MySQL and several other major server daemons) with my mobile phone and MidpSSH. When clearing the queue, Qmhandle lists information for each message as it processes [...]

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