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I have been testing several different open source shopping cart management tools. The one I am currently messing around with is called Zen Cart .

I was having some trouble with a python app and needed to clear some cached, precompiled versions of some of the files in the app. I had a hunch the find command might be useful, so I looked at the man doc. Turns out it was very useful.

Today, in order to make some testing easier, I wanted to setup a named virtual host in Apache. Here’s how I did it.

I frequently find myself needing an amazon product link and needing to jump through all sorts of hoops to get a product referral link. What usually ends up happening is that after locating the correct link type (usually plain) and trying to search for the product through the this page:

I was doing my usual thing at lunch today (watching a TED talk as I ate) and noticed the url said http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/201. I have been watching a lot of these videos lately, and I decided I might as well watch them in order. I wrote a quick ruby / Mechanize script (source below) to loop through videos 1-201 and fetch the titles for each. Some of the titles did not have the speaker/topic, but most did. Here they are:

I felt like Firefox hasn’t been quite snappy enough lately, and I heard that Firefox 3 is mostly performance updates, so I decided to give the Beta a try. ( get Firefox 3 Beta 1 here ).

Something I just learned, but have wanted to know for so long:

Create free ringtones for your iPhone using any song you already have on your computer. (Works with iTunes 7.5 and iPhone 1.1.2 firmware )

Gmail just announced that you can now use IMAP to access Gmail–this means all your sent messages will be synchronized, and your labeling / deletion / folder management will also be synchronized. Awesome!