Shawn Holwegner's Blog

Connecting instead of connection.

I’ve recieved several messages to the tune of “There have not been many updates recently – are you still alive?” pouring in via email in the last few days.

I assure you, I am still here!

I’ve recently relocated to Reno, Nevada (my old stomping ground), after spending the last few years in the Ca...

Since there is no reason to waste syslog to report various things for PHP, I decided to write my own wrapper. It’s still quite young, and not overly featureful, but it now exists. It will log to a file of your choice, only dropping to syslog when things break.

function logger($facility=“user:notic...

It’s that time again… no, not time to make a “googy”, it’s time for another MKVToolNix release!

Mosu’s fixed up a few more things, most pertaining to the mmg system (which is still broken on MacOS X), as well as a few features.

You can get your very own “googy” release here.

After extensive testing and rewriting, I’ve broken out of my former mold, and have taken dbshim out of the works, instead, I’m now using my rewritten rollatorDB.

While doing so, I re-implemented my RSS feeds, cleaning up quite a bit of the cruft in that code while extending it a bit more.

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I must admit to having been quite busy over the last few weeks, with my relocation to my old state of Nevada, and finishing up my contracts..

I’ve managed to get rid of the last bit of bloat which was my external RSS parser. I’ve written a slightly odd code snippit which uses PHP’s (now) native XM...

Since the rewrite of rollator into a full-fledged OOP structure, I’ve been asking myself, as well as been queried a few times by curious parties: “How will it work?”

I’ve tried to make it as painless as possible. If you note my prior post, you’ll see that all DB specific queries have been made a...