Dellanave

Most people who would actually read this know that with AuctionAds, I’ve had my head deep inside the bowels of the eBay API. Recently I sold a whole lot of 1 item on eBay and I had the daunting task of leaving 400+ feedbacks in front of me. I google’d for some tools, and not [...]

This, and the comments that follow it, are all the reasoning you need.

If you’re building web sites or applications, and you’re not using memcached yet, you should be. Hogan showed me memcache a while back, and I literally implemented it the same day. Even if your site isn’t high traffic it hopefully will be in the future. When that time comes you’re going to wish you had [...]

DaveN brought up a good point on Strikepoint today. Akismet should really have a local whitelist that you can set to whitelist people to comment or trackback. Here’s a quick 15-minute hack. Let me know if its ok and I’ll polish it a bit. Download – Updated 12/3 This allows you to add trusted domains [...]

A few weeks ago I noticed that some scripts I was playing with weren’t actually using tor even though I was proxy’ing through privoxy. Turns out that when you apt-get install tor/privoxy (at least on stable, ok) it doesn’t actually enable tor via privoxy. The fix is a simple addition to: /etc/privoxy/config: forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 [...]