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Jonathan Franzone

The Human Race (10k Run) For Charity

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Yesterday I participated in the Nike Human Race event, a 10k worldwide run to raise funds for several charities. The race took advantage of some pretty cool technology. They used their Nike+ sensor technology to be able to include people from all over the world in this race. I had a great time and have …

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Link Bundle – August 27

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Build Your First Facebook App Joe Casabona over at NetTuts gives a really easy to follow tutorial on creating your first Facebook application. Step 1) Build Facebook App, Step 2) ?, Step 3) Profit! Facebook Platform: The Fanfare Revisited Since we’re on the subject of Facebook Apps, Alex Iskold has an excellent article on the …

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Diversity Training!

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I just received an email from my work that stated something similar to the following: Dear Jonathan Franzone, This e-mail will provide you with information on how to participate in Online Diversity Training. Every employee of XYZ Corp. is being asked to complete this online training program. To participate in this program, you will need… …

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PHP Init Style Status Message

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Yesterday I talked about created SUCCESS and FAILED status messages in a Bash script (Bash Script Init Style Status Message). Well, on occasion I use PHP for shell/system scripting and of course I thought it would be nice to incorporate my new status messages in those scripts as well. Turns out that it was quite …

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Freaky Site is NOT Fedora

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Ever been looking for the RedHat Fedora (Linux Distro) site and type in the wrong address? If not, then you probably haven’t run across this somewhat freaky site. The address is http://fedora.org and they must be used to the wrong hits, because there is a disclaimer that they do not have anything to do with …

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Bash Script Init Style Status Message

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Have you ever wondered how the OK and/or FAILED messages are printed out in the initialization of services on a Linux system during bootup? Well… I have. Anyway, I’ve always thought that it was really cool how the OK and FAILED messages printed out at the same column on the screen and in different colors. So of course I wanted to know how to do that so I could use it in my own scripts.

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Win a $2,000 Amazon.com Shopping Spree

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PCWorld is giving away a $2,000 shopping spree at Amazon.com just for participating in a survey. The survey is very simple and extremely short; I completed it in just a few minutes. Just go to www.pcworld.com/pcwsurvey and tell PC World about your experiences with PCs, cameras, printers, TVs, and other electronic devices. The sweepstakes is …

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