Rich's Tongfamily (Richtong.net add-on)

Bicycle Tires Updated Here’s an update from the bike tire explorations: TUFO | Product Line. Saw this first on Sdeals. This is a tubular tire that fits on a clincher rim. Interesting idea. Weighs 335 grams but this includes the tube, so it compares with say 180 grams for a Veloflex Pave plus 70 grams…

PHP password protection Here is something that Michelle has asked for. When I convert Tongfamily.com over, I’m going to add this as well. By adding one line to each page, you get password protection. Cookie Password Protection in PHP. This is freeware for the simple case, but costs $20 otherwise. List of password protection scripts.…

Mailing List Servers Another thing I’ve been looking for are mailing list servers. Right now I’m using Arrow from Jadebox which is Windows based, but does require you have your client up and running all the time. This is limited to 50 users I’m going to try EZMLM – Easy Mailing List Manager which is…

Photo Gallery and Digital Photo Management Here is the final project, finding a good photo gallery and digital photo management system. There are web based ones like PhotoWorks, but I’ve found them to be super slow or cumbersome. So, I’ll start collecting a list of hacker ones. Here’s a start: alexking.org

PHP Bulletin Boards Now that the blog project is well on its way with the next steps being to get four other sites up and running and to try movabletype on tongfamily.com. The next step is to understand bulletin board software that’s out there and then album and photo archiving. Here are a quick list…

InternetSeer Web Site Monitoring Service. This is the number one hit on Google for doing site monitoring. Right now it is hitting the b2 blog mail monitoring url every hour to get email into the blog at Geek Fishing

boardom :: View Forum – Site showcase. OK, now I’m in the middle of posting my brand new b2 hack on the bulletin board. A proud day. I have to figure out how to package it so that you can all download it though.

PuTTY: a free Win32 telnet/ssh client. Oops that last listing was for a Unix-only client, here is the top Windows version from Google.

OpenSSH. This is the replacement for telnet. It is amazing how many old Unix utilities like ftp and telnet are still being used. Heck, I learned how to use it in 1975 when I was a teenager. I guess that dates me. At least, some things aren’t obsolete. I’m switching to ssh since it is…

APD |. It is pretty frustrating to be writing PHP without a debugger. Here’s one that some folks pointed out. I tried another debugger a while back and it was terrible. APD is the Advanced PHP Debugger. It was written to provide strace/truss capability for profiling and debugging php code, as well as providing the…