Now that's some title for a post. I Couldn't think how to shorten it but it is shorter than the original title I wanted to use. Anyway, a couple of weeks ago I needed to figure out how to write a Bash script that let its users state how many fields or questions the script should request information for and what those field names should be. It took less than five minutes to solve the problem but I thought I'd post my solution here in hope that someone else finds it useful or knows a better solution. Here's what I came up with. It's an input loop script that continues to request input for as … [Read more...]
Install FUSE into Ubuntu the Easy Way - Use a Script
July 26, 2011 By 1 Comment
Manic Miner on Fuse Making friendly suggestions on a forum is not always a good idea: you never know where it's going to lead. When I saw a request for feature ideas for upcoming versions of FUSE, the Spectrum emulator, posted on the World of Spectrum website little did I know that one simple comment asking for FUSE to be made easier to install into Ubuntu would lead me to write an installer script. When someone on the forum wrote "hint, hint, hint: man bash. you really can contribute that bash one-liner to FUSE then. %-)" in reply to my writing "[as] much as I'd like to give FUSE more … [Read more...]
Really Simple Traffic Logger
April 24, 2011 By 2 Comments
Born out of boredom, unrealized necessity and the fruit of another script, this really simple PHP counter logs page views and tracks visitors from the time they enter your site to the time they leave it. Weighing in at slight 9.9 KiB, or 5.6 KiB when all comments are removed, it represents excellent value for a free php website traffic counter and logger. The traffic data logged by Really Simple Traffic Logger is everything you might need to see where your visitors are coming from, where they are going once they are on your site and for optionally displaying a configurable PHP counter … [Read more...]
