• Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftotext
• Reference: http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html (Precompiled binaries)
• Download: ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/xpdf-3.02pl2-linux.tar.gz

catdoc, xls2csv, catppt

• Reference: http://ftp.wagner.pp.ru/~vitus/software/catdoc/
• Download: http://ftp.wagner.pp.ru/pub/catdoc/catdoc-0.94.2.tar.gz

unrtf

• http://www.gnu.org/software/unrtf/unrtf.html
• http://www.gnu.org/software/unrtf/unrtf-0.20.5.tar.gz

cat

• Reference: http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/cmd/cmd.csp?path=c/cat
• Download: Not necessary comes installed with Apache

The command line is a tool that self taught developers often spend much energy avoiding as they first start to learn server side and database languages such as MySQL and PHP. At first I was extremely intimidated by the Terminal window and skipped out on a lot of tutorials that told me to log into my server via SSH, based only on the SSH factor.

As I started to get more comfortable with the basics of the PHP and MySQL, I also became more interested in harnessing the power of the command line and learning how these things depend on a greater stack of code.

I started out with a few simple VIM editor commands, editing php.ini and .htaccess files directly on the server. Once I started to branch out a little more I found out that instead of downloading large frameworks such as Drupal or ZendFramework and then having to upload them back onto the server (which can often take 30-60 minutes), I could do a quick wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-6.4.tar.gz followed by a quick tar -xvzf drupal-6.4.tar.gz. Bam! There it is no waiting, no download and upload.

TAR a file/folder(Foldername: drupal)
Example: tar cvf .tar
Usage: tar cvf drupal.tar drupal/

UNTAR a file/folder(Foldername: drupal)
Example: tar xvf .tar
Usage: tar xvf drupal.tar

GZIP a file/folder(Foldername: drupal.tar)
Example: gzip
Usage: gzip drupal.tar

UNTAR & UNGZIP
tar -xvzf

Visit Switch Creative

Scenario:
I would like for any site user to have the ability to subscribe to any taxonomy of the site and receive an email based on the users personal preference of frequency. They would have the option to receive an instant update everytime a post is made to their subscribed-to taxonomy(s) or they could receive the digest email daily, weekly or monthly. Lastly, I would like to be able to control when the daily, weekly or monthly emails are sent. I would like to be able to choose the week of the month (if applicable), day (if applicable), hour, and minute (quarter hours).

Everything is pretty straight-forward and pretty generic as far as email management or “ListServ” style solutions go. My only hang up has been figuring out which is the first Tuesday or the second Wednesday or the fourth Friday of the month.

After much searching and hours of trial and error I came acrossed this post which gave the below solution. It takes the current day and returns which week of the month it is in.

<?php 
 
/**
 * A brilliant one-liner, considering most of the solutions I've seen have been a minimum of 10-20 lines of code.
 */
 $week = date('W') - date('W',strtotime(date('Y-m-01'))) + 1;
 
 
/**
 * While the line above is short and to the point, the code below is a verbose example of how one could utilize the one-liner in a real world situation.
 */
 
 
 class WeekNumber {
 
   private $DateString, $Day, $DayName, $MonthName, $Number, $Week;
 
  /**
   * Adds a suffix to a number (1-5)
   *
   * @return $DateString
   */
   final function Display() {
     $DayName = date('l');
     $MonthName = date('F');
 
     $DateString = "Today is the " . $this->_get_week_number() . " " . $DayName . " in " . $MonthName;
 
     return $DateString;
   }
 
  /**
   * Adds a suffix to a number (1-5)
   *
   * @return $Day
   */
   private function _add_suffix($Number) {   
     switch($Number) {
       case "1":
         $Day = "1st";
         break;
 
       case "2":
         $Day = "2nd";
         break;
 
       case "3":
         $Day = "3rd";
         break;
 
       case "4":
         $Day = "4th";
         break;
 
       case "5":
         $Day = "5th";
         break;
     }
 
     return $Day;
   }
 
 
  /**
   * Return the week number of the current week day
   *
   * @return $Week
   */
   private function _get_week_number() {
     /** Here's our one liner **/
     $Week = date('W') - date('W',strtotime(date('Y-m-01'))) + 1;
     $Week = $this->_add_suffix($Week);
     return $Week;
   }
 
 }
 
 $WeekNumber = new WeekNumber();
 print $WeekNumber->Display();
 
?>

• Studio (18) Hundred has a fantasitic collection of screen printed posters and other design works
• Design is Kinky is pretty well known but still a great design kick starter
• Post Typography is a big favorite of mine, as well as Aesthetic Apparatus and The Heads of State
• Chris Rubino is one of the talented desigers at Studio (18) Hundered listed above
• Lifelounge is a “newly found” website on my list

Check it out.

I’ve been a fan of The Heads of State since I saw there first entires PRINT and HOW. If you’re unfamiliar with them they’re an amazing two man studio formed by Jason Kernevich and Dustin Summers with offices in Brooklyn, NY and Seattle, WA that is probably best known for their poster work.

Let’s do a quick feature run-down:

• With the new version comes an amazing update that our Textmate-using, rival, developer friends have had for some time now. “Fully integrated source control with Subversion.”
• Mixed-mode syntax highlighting (Javascript embedded in HTML)
• Significant performance increases (Leopard only)
• Search across multiple files locally
• User customizable books
• More AppleScript support
• Web Preview now previews local PHP files