I have a Perl script that one of my clients uses to upload files. It is a script that I created and has been working flawlessly for a couple of years now. Today I received a call saying that this client is no longer able to upload files.

I ran into this problem the other day while trying to print from a laptop running Windows Vista to a PC that was running Windows XP. The XP machine had a USB printer that was being shared and was visible on the network. I installed the shared printer through the Add a printer function as a network printer on the Vista machine and it installed without error. When I tried printing something to the newly installed printer nothing happened, no error, nothing…

While doing some business in downtown Tampa a while back, I came across something very interesting but also exciting for an ex-LEGOmaniac. In the lobby of the Regions Bank building there was a miniature reconstruction of most of downtown Tampa made entirely of LEGOs. The reconstruction was an exhibit from the Glazer Children’s Museum.

I use a great WordPress plugin called Twitter Tools to update my Twitter status with posts from my blog. It’s a great way to get the word out about new content on your site. The only thing that the Twitter Tools doesn’t do automatically is shorten your urls to make it easier to fit in the 140 character limit of Twitter. Fortunately, the author of Twitter Tools did think of this and built in a way for us to do it fairly easily.

If you are still using the Fedora Core 4 (FC4) version of Linux you may have a need to upgrade your version of PHP. Unfortunately the Fedora Project hasn’t put out an update to PHP past version 5.0.4. There have been some functionality updates to PHP since then. The project I was working on at the time needed the functionality of SimpleXML (for handling XML responses; built into PHP 5.1.4 or higher).

The easiest way to upgrade PHP on Fedora, in my opinion, is using YUM. YUM makes it easy to download and install rpm packages on Linux systems. So let’s take a look at what we need to do.