For the past several days I’ve been working on a website for fun. You can check out what I have so far at http://discuss.nathancheek.com. I have never done much with web programming other than simple static websites so this is my first such project. It was supposed to be a simple discussion website, but it has turned into quite the project for me. My programming language of choice for this project has been PHP which has been mostly straightforward. However I have definitely learned a whole lot of things in the past couple of days. Here are some of the things I’ve learned so far.
I don’t know if I’ll end up posting much here, but sometimes there are things I’d like to talk about that are just too long for Twitter.
I often ssh to my computer from my phone, which is not the easiest thing to do. I thought it would be really neat if there was a way to perform certain commands, such as reboot or suspend, without taking the time to log in. Enter IFTTT Remote Control. Set this script up along with IFTTT (If This Then That) and Dropbox, then it just takes a text message to run a command on your computer, no matter where you are. This script is a template for any number of commands you may wish to run.
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