http://yansblog.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:46:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I set up email piping--it is very straight forward in Linux using cPanel.  Pretty much whenever an email gets sent to support@domain.tld, it gets forwarded to the PHP piping script, and that adds it to the application.  The alternative method of doing email piping is not true email piping--it is ... http://yansblog.com/2008/04/09/email-piping/ I have been diagnosed with Murphy's Law of Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.  My version of Murphy's law...When shit hits the fan, shit hits the fan HARD.  Placing all your eggs in one basket is not a wise idea, thus, I placed all my eggs in different baskets.  ... http://yansblog.com/2008/04/01/murphys-law-hits/ Yan Huang (me) explains the way he automates his process of gaining leads from Craigslist, using PHP/SMTP and Gmail to do so. The Craigslist URL is pasted into the Craigslist API that we developed, and the output is a datafile in CSV format. This server does the parsing ... http://yansblog.com/2008/03/30/mass-responding-to-craigslist-through-gmail-via-smtp/ Tags: facebook, business This post is to test the automatic blog polling and trackback service for Radario. http://yansblog.com/2008/01/26/radario-test/ I never had a purpose for creating a Facebook application, and I still do not. One of my friends, whose still in high school, mentioned the computer science teacher gave extra credit to any students that created a Facebook application. From my knowledge, none created one, but knowing ... http://yansblog.com/2008/01/20/my-facebook-app-hello-world/ Usually my posts are about technology but a lot has taken place in the past month. It seems like all the pieces of the puzzle are finally coming together. This post will be a bit awkward because it will be very philosophical and probably not logical. During the past few weeks ... http://yansblog.com/2007/12/04/road-to-str8-ballin/ I don't know if it is still Ajax if there is no XML involved.  I used PHP to parse the CSV data from Yahoo Finance and exported it into JSON.  My server did not support the json_decode and json_encode functions so I had ... http://yansblog.com/2007/11/06/ajax-with-json-ajax-with-xml/ Let's back up for those who are not familiar with the term PR--it is not Public Relationship in this context.  PR stands for Google's PageRank and it is an old method of tracking which websites are relevant or important by Google. Dranet used to be a PR6 website at one point in time--it is now ... http://yansblog.com/2007/11/05/same-pagerank-for-websites/ There is something about American Gangster that caught my attention--both protagonist went for their own versions of the American dream and did it.  Denzel Washington did an excellent job portraying Frank Lucas.  His actions for the most part were along the line, in my opinion, with the exception of him ... http://yansblog.com/2007/11/03/american-gangster/ I have heard a lot about PHP Pear or PHP Extension and Application Repository.  I never really had to use it but heck, I tried Ruby on Rails and it was pretty cool--why not try Pear.  The repositories that I downloaded were Mail and MDB2.  Mail was pretty straight forward--I ... http://yansblog.com/2007/10/27/php-pear-is-pure-awesome/