Generally I don’t like to use the blog for update releases of CRT’s projects, but I think its a good thing to do on the first release of something or if there is a major change. ezRETS 2.1 is such a release.
The major feature of ezRETS 2.1 is official support for Mac OS X. You need to have 10.4.x aka Tiger. However, its a universal binary, so it doesn’t matter if you’re rolling it with Intel or PPC.
As a quick reminder, ezRETS is CRT’s ODBC Driver for RETS servers. It aims to provide read-only access to RETS servers via any application that can speak ODBC, such as Microsoft Office. It’s cross-platform existing under Windows and Linux. For more about it, visit ezRETS project web page.
Continue reading ‘ezRETS new and improved with intense Apple flavor!’
This week seems to be all about email. Reading it, scripting against it, parsing it, but unfortunately not a whole lot of deleting it. I really need to get in line with Inbox Zero.
Anyways, I came across a nifty little ditty for quickly checking message counts, and well, doing a lot of the basic functions of email checking. Nothing to download, nothing to configure, and best of all its all done right at the cl (command line). ** In windows to get to a command line go: START -> RUN, and then enter cmd
Continue reading ‘Popping Command Line Fun’
Warning: GeekFactor 7++
As I started evaluating forum software for the RETS.org user community, I ran across the need to export the old mailing list archives. The export was easy, as the entire history is still stored in an mbox flat file - so in essence getting the mail was already done.
I ran into the issue that keeping the email in a threaded state was going to need a nice little algorithm. Some Googling led me to an Jamie Zainski’s Threading which outlines the basic principles, all pertaining to interpreting the Email Header:
Continue reading ‘Unraveling the Ball of Thread’
You keep them lock up in their dark little closet, passing them tons of carbonated beverages, pizza and various other snacks. The reflection from the computer monitor can almost be seen burning into their retina. They speak of mystical terms like API’s, OOP, Mashups and how that last dungeon raid was a CWOT. Occasionally, you hear them scuffling by to use the washroom, you had forgotten they were still in the office. This is how they work. This is how they live!
Most importantly, they emerge to give you presents in the form of technological achievements that you would never have dreamed possible.
CRT wants to meet these individuals. The intricate cogs in the IT wheel that pushes your digital business to the next level. We want to feed off their ideas, couple them with ours, and create the uberREgeek.
To help facilitate this, we have created an exciting Tech Intensive for this years annual in Vegas. We have innovators, leading experts, and technology pioneers helping us deliver this message.
Be warned, you will walk away from this wondering what hit you! Thats why we are recommending unlocking your tech geek and bringing them along as a translator.
We hope to see you in Vegas!
I recently found myself in want of a service that allowed me to aggregate my Google Calendars. In searching around I stumbled across Pipes. Pipes is a service that allows you to aggregate several feeds soruces into a single feed. The sources and output can be RSS, icalendar and other formats. What sets Pipes apart is that you can fiter, sort and transform the items in the feeds before outputing the aggregate so you can create some very powerful custom feeds. The idea behind Pipes is similar to *nix command line tools where you can pipe the output of one tool to the input of another to create some very powerful chains of commands. Pipes a fairly intuitive user interface for wiring the different peices together to create your aggragate feed, you just drag the output of one peice to the input of another.
Chris was able to use Pipes to create a feed that searches blogs and see if NAR is mentioned, to help us find out who is talking about us.
Pipes is still in beta, I for one was unable to aggregate different Google calendar feeds in a way that could be imported into iCal. Also, documentation of how to use some of the pieces is pretty sparse. But Pipes is a tool that has a lot of possiblities, and I look forward to seeing how it develops.
