I recently had some use for a program that could download a RSS and then notify me over SMS if there were any new entries. I could not find anything useful on the internets except rssdler – but that one is just geared towards content download as far I could see.
So I remembered an old script I made back in 2005. After ironing out some bugs I got it working again 
Without further ado: RSS Action Daemon 0.2
I have a case where a customer wants to block one of their many WordPress multisite blogs from all but some IP ranges. It turned out this could be quite easily solved with mod_rewrite in Apache – I know, the correct way to do it would probably be to set up a seperate virtualhost for that one URL and use allow from, but in a Plesk environment this is not always so easy…
The blog URL is intranet.domain.tld, and the allowed IPs should be 12.34.32.10 and the range 23.45.54.0/24. If the remote IP is not in the allowed range please go read the news…
The following snippet must be placed FIRST in the WordPress multisite .htaccess file
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !12\.34\.32\.10$
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !23\.45\.54\..*$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} "intranet.domain.tld"
RewriteRule .* http://www.reddit.com [last]
As previously mentioned, I am now an Android user. This is not by choice, it’s some sort of political decision on my workplace that iPhones are strictly forbidden. Android phones, on the other hand, is allowed. So when my old private iPhone 3G started getting slow due to more advanced features in iOS4 I had to switch to Android in order to get a phone from my employer, which is something they are contractually bound to provide me with while I am working there.
So, how does the HTC Desire HD stack up to the iPhone? We’ll find out.
Read more…
One of the great features of the Android Market was the easy way to get refunds if that pricey app you bought didn’t fit your needs. Now they are reducing the refund time from 24 hours to 15 – fifteen – minutes! Wow. I was going to go through the store and test time tracker applications, and I can’t thourogly test a time tracker application in only fifteen minutes. That sort of app needs to be tested in a real-life setting, testing export possibilities and ease of tracking multiple projects/tasks etc. Even in socialist Norway we don’t have 15 minute workdays.
Same goes for GPS apps, getting a proper fix takes almost 15 minutes in some cases, how can one find out if the app is good enough in such a small time period?
Please, Android Market developers, don’t ruin the buying experience. If you need to lower it from 24 hours, how about giving us at least 12, 6 or 3 hours refund time? 15 minutes is a joke for people testing more advanced applications.
