I've been posting over on Vox.com for quite some time. Over the past year, however, my posts have been marked as private or "neighborhood viewing only". I'm reverting back to self-hosted blogging for the customization and control. As for the blog itself, don't expect much -- very informal, very quick, random stuff.
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From the blog: Pull Attachments from Incoming Mail with Perl
For a new project I've been working on, I needed to pull the image attachments from all incoming mail, store them separately. I couldn't find any snippets online for this so I had to create my own. Here's what I came up with. As always, it's a bit rough but is a [...]
From the blog: Receiving and Sending Text Messages With PHP and IMAP
I've had a lot of requests to turn some of my Twitter apps into mobile services. Most companies, like Twitter itself, use Short Codes (like 40404) to accept and send txt/sms messages. Short codes are very expensive (the cheapest solution I found started at $500 per month for a randomized short code of [...]
From the blog: A design in the works
Just to keep my blog semi updated (seems I'm just letting this place collect dust), here's what I'm working on for today. This design won't be used. I liked where it was going, the client didn't. Figured I'd share it before I toss it. Also, I'm working on something new for this blog. It [...]
From the blog: An Update on the House
After a week or so of very hard work, we decided trying to clean everything up and restore the house was a futile attempt. Everything we really wanted to save/couldn't afford to replace immediately was cleaned up, boxed, and stored at my brother's house. After a couple weeks of cleaning and boxing, the [...]
From the blog: Push RSS feed to your Twitter feed
A friend needed to push/send items from an RSS feed to his Twitter account. Here's the code in a nice .zip file. Very simple and rough, but it gets the job done nicely. Feel free to add to/modify. http://kevinsmithdesigns.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/KSDtwitter.zip