As a writer of online content, I’m always looking at what is new in the world of content management systems (CMSs), and I was intrigued to see that there is a new CMS out based on Node.js called Calipso (and with …
Jun 07
Code.DanYork.com Now Available Over IPv6 as of World IPv6 Day
Just in time for World IPv6 Day, I’m pleased to note that Code.DanYork.com is now available over IPv6!
This site runs on WordPress and while WordPress itself works fine with IPv6, the trick was to find a web hosting provider that …
May 27
China Passes 900 Million Cell Phone Users! (Featured Blog)
Fascinating stats out of an article at TheNextWeb this week: China has become the first country to reach the 900 million mobile phone user milestone after amassing about 11 million mobile phone users in April alone, according to a report by the country…
May 25
Skype Issues Official Statement About the End of Skype for Asterisk (Featured Blog)
Before writing my story yesterday about Skype killing off Skype For Asterisk, I had reached out to Skype’s PR agency to see if there was any statement from Skype. There wasn’t at the time, but today they sent over this statement from Jennifer Caukin, a…
May 24
FBI’s Newest VoIP Fraud Case Shows Danger of Social Engineering
Over on the Voice of VOIPSA blog yesterday, I wrote about a new VoIP fraud case were a group of people stole over $4.4 million in services from a variety of Internet Telephony Service Providers (ITSPs) / carriers, including AT&T and Verizon. As I note in that blog post, this…
May 20
My Github repo of SMSified experiments
Earlier in the week I mentioned a quick python app I wrote to send SMS messages using SMSified. I’m storing that code and some other experiments up in a Github repo at:
https://github.com/danyork/smsified-experiments/
If you are a Github user …
May 19
Skulpt – a JavaScript-based way to run Python inside your web browser
In the process of writing about the site that lets you run Linux in your web browser, I learned about Skulpt.org that is essentially the same idea only for a python command line.
The demo at www.skulpt.org is pretty cool… just …
May 18
Greg Bayer: How to Move Files From One Git Repo To Another While Preserving History
By way of a Hacker News post, I learned of this great post by Greg Bayer:
Moving Files from one Git Repository to Another, Preserving History
I’ve actually had a couple of cases where I’ve wanted to move some files and keep the history. I couldn’t easily figure it out and opted to …
May 17
A Quick Python App to Send SMS via SMSified’s REST API
May 17
Fun Tool to Run a Linux Computer IN Your Browser Using JavaScript
Here’s a fun little JavaScript experiment… go to:
Watch the boot sequence… and… ta da… you’ve got a Linux root prompt! Use basic Linux commands, edit files with vi, compile apps in C using “tcc”.
