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I'm having a widget developed by somebody on oDesk. It's an executable built in Adobe AIR and it (amongst other things) needs to pull news from the companies intranet (built with Drupal) and display it on franchisees computers. The problem is that the RSS feed is private and the Odesk...

I just booked my ticket to the Wacken festival in August. Only a fraction of the total acts have been booked, but it's Judas Priest's farewell gig so that's worth the ticket by itself. Other acts so far include Ozzy, Suicidal Tendancies, Motorhead, Blind Guardian, Appocolyptica, Avantasia...

Did you ever put up a site and then totally forget about it? I put this one up about a year ago, worked on it for a few hours and then forgot about its existance! The Steve Wagenheim fan club Anybody wanna throw me some fresh content... some ideas about what to actually do with the fucker...

A very good friend of mine is getting married on new years eve. It's going to be out of town and most of the people I know will be going are real party animals so win or fail, the word EPIC will be used in the near future. In order to survive, I'm creating a checklist to remember. What have I...

Here in Johannesburg, we get these creepy bugs called Parktown Prawns. they are totally harmless but they make grown men freak out and run away screaming. They ain't pretty and they are the only things that small (ok -not that small) that will actually jump at you (at head height) to scare...

I'm using a commercial currency converter on some of my sites, but I would rather code my own to make it more seemless. Does anybody know of a live currency rate XML feed that I can pull? USD/ZAR is the most important, but GBP and Euro would also be nice.

I've been playing with IE 9 beta for the last few days. They claim it's the fastest browser out there, but I haven't done any speed tests - just fiddled to get a feel of the functionality. So far I really like it. Very "Chrome ish". Get it from the MS site if you want to give it a spin.

My CEO and a partner of his had this site developed a few years back. They are both not shy a buck or 2 so this was more of a "giving back" type thing with no monetization, but now I have been tasked with testing and monetizing it. Nothing invasive that will detract from the site or the service...

I just received an email from HostGator saying they have done a deal with Cloudflare, and I can activate it from within cpanel. Cloudflare is a security/CDN thing (haven't look too carefully at it yet), but I've been considering a CDN for a couple of months now. Comments anybody. Cloudflare...

I need to upload videos to a WordPress site, but the maximum file size allowed by WP is 8GB - I need to upload vids of 50 - 100 MB... maybe more. I could overcome this by simply FTPing directly, but it isn't my site and it would be too much grief to explain the process of FTP (don't ask). I...

Can anybody tell me how accurate estibot.com is? I have a dormant domain that they valued at $4500. (no site, no traffic, no PR... just the domain name) I have no immediate plans for the domain so how easy would it be to realise the full $4500 in a quick sale? If I developed some content...

I'm helping some friends migrate their site from the old classic .asp version that I created way back in '02 to a shiney new Python version. The original site was running on a Access database and after all these years it's probably become the biggest Access db on the net!! (up to about 100...

I need a quick and easy php written for me. Yeah, I could use elance or one of those services but I'd rather keep it here. I have set up a quick article directory (open source code) and I have about 100 000 articles to seed it with. I have uploaded all the articles in categorised...

I'm busy setting up a cheap and nasty article directory using some open source code and I have around 100 000 articles to seed it with. The articles are all in .txt format in folders/subfolders according to category on my hard drive. Is there an easy (I have no coding skillz and very little...

Thrash metal from South Africa. I'm in this vid... my 0.2 seconds of fame :-) YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

Just because this cracked me up :-) I am perplexed that so many of my friends are against a mosque being built near Ground Zero. I think it should be the goal of every American to be tolerant. The mosque should be allowed, in an effort to promote tolerance. That is why I also propose, that...