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Veronica Walking Faster

Veronica is really starting to fly around the house. We are learning that there is no such thing as “too much” baby proofing. One awesome kid.

V Really Moving from John Mangino on Vimeo.

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PHP, Email and Twitter - updated

Update: The entire script is available at Snipt for your viewing pleasure.

Whenever we release a new Course at work an email is sent to all of the offices with all of the pertinent information including a link to the product page.

Looking for a way to keep people up-to-date on our releases through Twitter I decided the quickest, easiest and most hands-off way to do that would be to have a script that could take the email and extract the course name and a link to the product page and post it to twitter. This way we can keep people informed of the latest releases at the exact same time it’s being released.

So, I had three goals for this script.
1 - Grab the Subject and the product page link from the email.
2 - Shorten the product page link.
3 - Post the info to VTC’s twitter account

There’s nothing groundbreaking here. It’s basically reading a file with STDIN instead of a static file or webservice. But I thought I would share.

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Ridiculous

The idea that a judges life experiences should influence judicial decisions is both ridiculous and very dangerous.

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My Parent’s Wedding

My Uncle Keith brought some great family pics to our last Sunday dinner. Here are some great pics from my Mom and Dad’s wedding.

From standing left. Uncle Keith, Grandma, Grandpa, Dad and Mom

Dad dancing with Grandma.

Mom and Dad off to the honeymoon. The car's engine was filled with cheese.

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