Author Archives: Dave

A phpBB 3 iPhone Style Theme With Option to Disable View Comments

A forum that I am an adminstrator for has been clamoring for an iPhone theme (style) for a long time now. In the past, I hadn’t seen any usable iPhone template for phpBB3, until now.

View this entire post to view my modifications to a theme switcher for mobile devices, so that the end user can disable a mobile theme for their login if they should choose to do so.

Walled Gardens and Currency View Comments

Walled Gardens are never very effective. They may work for a period of time to isolate a nation or organization, but they inevitably fail. On the short list that comes to mind: The Great Wall of China, U.S. Isolationism in the 19th Century and AOL in the 90′s. Countries, by very definition, are walled gardens. [...]

Another Bash One Liner To Delete Old Directories View Comments

We received a tip from blog readers Christian and Michael for alternatives to the command to delete all directories older than a certain period of time. These both work in bash and can be used in scripts to clean up old backup directories or any situation where you need to delete old directories from the [...]

Thoughts On the Google TV Platform View Comments

Just watched the Google IO stream regarding the release of Google TV.  My thoughts: Good: The platform is open. This is the way to go, and will allow developers to go hog wild and develop things that even the Google engineers couldn’t envision. TV/Web Integration. The Google TV platform appears to have great web and [...]

One Line Linux Command to Print Out Directory Tree Listing View Comments

My professor sent us this little one liner (ok, I had to format it to 2 lines to fit in this blog. You know what I mean) which prints out the current directory tree: ls -R | grep “:$” | sed -e ‘s/:$//’ -e ‘s/[^-][^\/]*\//–/g’ \ -e ‘s/^/ /’ -e ‘s/-/|/’ What’s going on here?