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Comment on College Football Schedule - Wordpress Widget by Angelina

Angelina — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:31:42 +0000

Awesome widget. I’m definitely gonna try it out. Thanks. =)

Comment on Don’t you love College Football? by Alvin Kreitman

Alvin Kreitman — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:12:17 +0000

Hi Tom: I’ve seen your creator and I was quite impressed! I’m starting to look at ways of expanding into other college sports and possibly pro sports.

Thanks for stopping by!

Alvin Kreitman

Comment on Don’t you love College Football? by Tom Sliva

Tom Sliva — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:06:22 +0000

Well this is a coincidence. I created a similar web based tool at just about the exact same time you did last year, completely unaware of what you’ve done. I’ve since updated it with new features for ‘08.

I like the look of your CF widget. I am not web developer. I am a HW engineer who couldn’t find a concise way to list CF games, so I created one myself. It’s much more function over form but it’s been an interesting learning experience.

If you are interested the full URL is:
http://www.strangestbrew.com/cfb_sched/cf_sch08.php

thanks,
–Tom

Comment on liveSchedule for Yahoo Widgets by Riches Secondary For Brian Brohm

Riches Secondary For Brian Brohm — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:18:40 +0000

[...] in both desktop and blog formats for all major football programs across the country on his web site, where the Louisville schedule is prominently displayed. He reports that the widget has been [...]

Comment on College Football Schedule - Wordpress Widget by Riches Secondary For Brian Brohm

Riches Secondary For Brian Brohm — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:58:31 +0000

Comment on Finally, my shot! by Jeff Sim

Jeff Sim — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:41:46 +0000

No way! Don’t forget us peons when you get in office!! Al for president!!

Comment on College Football Schedule - Wordpress Widget by Frankie

Frankie — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:09:10 +0000

Great little widget Alvin. I’d make sure to notify newbies with php, that they need to have php5 on their site for this class to work.

How would I go about adding this widget to a page multiple times? I’d like to have several schedules displayed according to the teams that are popular for my site.

Comment on Smart LAMP Application Backups using Amazon’s S3 by Alvin Kreitman

Alvin Kreitman — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:49:49 +0000

Calvin: I’m sorry for the major delay in replying to you comment. It got lost in a bevy of SPAM comments and I didn’t notice it till just today. So the answer to your question is that dev/null is a nice place to put all standard output - so when this runs as a cron job - I don’t get emails detailing every little thing. The later part of the command - 2>&1 simply tells the command to redirect all error output to standard output - so that is also not displayed on the screen. See a good description of this technique here: http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/06/06/what-does-devnull-21-mean/

Comment on Smart LAMP Application Backups using Amazon’s S3 by Calvin

Calvin — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:00:57 +0000

Sorry mine is not a coment, rather a question.

Why do you first redirect to /dev/null and then to $1?..

Comment on College Football Schedule - Wordpress Widget by Alvin Kreitman

Alvin Kreitman — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:08:29 +0000

Hi Ryan:

The only things that I can think of is

a. you aren’t using the most current WP
b. you didn’t follow the instructions above…
c. Something is prohibiting the setup scripts to establish a connection to a remote server.

Sorry I’m not more help. Let me know if you are still not having any luck.

Alvin