Stuart Turner

Been doing some browsing and have come up with the following collection of links on various topics:

First of all some humour. Lots of very popular emailed jokes, some rude so beware!

The other is a how to link for rsync on windows. When rsync'ing to windows it currently copies everything due to the absence of an rsync server on the windows side. I haven't tried this yet, but it looked promising!

Found this useful plugin (Firebug) for Firefox which provides lots of useful information for developers.

Have also been digging around the mashup space and still want to develop my inbox smasher concept to re-invigorate the inbox. The Haystack project has always been of interest to me.

Other related projects on the MIT site include:

• Exhbit
• Piggy Bank
• Relo

The Brain also interested me as a way of visualising concepts.

Xobni seems to want to give power back to you and your inbox! Hey, that sounds like my inbox smasher idea ...

I drive from Cambridge to London for my work and am very interested in traffic conditions. I used to subscribe to traffic master, however thought it wasn't worth the subscription after a while.

I recently got a Blackberry 8800 and found the browser quite useful. It will display the AA Road watch pages quite nicely.

The only irritation was that I use three main routes and it meant I had to do three queries to track my route. I started to wonder whether I could send myself an automatic email of incidents at certain times of the day e.g. commute times.

I've used Beautiful Soup before for other web page scraping - Stu's Phone Footie being one of them ...

It's taken me a few hours, however what I have is an email sent during the mornings and evenings whenever the road situation has changed from the previous message sent, along with the nice images that the AA produce of the areas affected.

Here's the code if you want to adjust for your route to work:

I think my comments about the Komodo IDE were a little hasty. I've been patient and started getting to grips with it - yes loading is a little bit slow, however I'm getting quite familiar and starting to like the layout of the editor. I've also discovered the "Toolbox" where you can have simple commands kick off and bind them to key strokes. The integration with subversion is also superb. So now I can edit code, work with subversion and using a couple of simple commands from toolbox, copy files to my local webserver for testing (using rsync) and then copy to the remote web server, all from within one IDE - certainly making my life easier. I used to edit in Kate and copy files from the command prompt.

I didn't use the script I found at Gerry's in the end, I found something more appropriate for what I need at Andy's.

I modified it a bit to do what I wanted - i.e. display multiple events on the same day and changed some of the formatting a bit. I'm pretty pleased with the result.

Contact me if you want the code!

Found some other scripts here when I was looking for calendar scripts. Pretty cool menu script as well (for real restaurant menu's not menu's for navigation!).

http://www.atwebresults.com/scriptstore/cart/index.php?maincat_id=1