Script School News

Next show - Show #276 - Friday Mar 24, 2006: The official 2 hours of Tech Lineup.

NOTE: As of show #238, Script School radio now runs 90 minutes and Webmaster Cookbook runs 30 minutes, which still makes it the two hours of tech radio show. We’re trying to reduce the podcasting time, as it seems shorter is generally more preferred in the podsphere and also 60 minutes just wasn’t quite enough time for Script School radio.

Today on the Script School Radio show we’ll discuss why it’s important to go AFK periodically to recharge webmaster batteries. Also:

- Beatallica got help from Metallica frontman
- chatrooms on blogs, do they have a place? (demo)
- Virtual conferences stealing the thunder?
- Google Finance takes on Y! Finance
- $100 XBox dev kit?
- How to read 150+ feeds every day, really
- Funny Pac Man junkie video
- cleansing RSS feeds with Feed Rinse
- 3D baseball coming to a movie theater near you in 2007?
- 007 replacement Daniel Craig not the Casino Royale Fan treatment
- Vista and Office for consumers delayed to 2007
- Mac Mode: open source Mac: opensourcemac.org

All this and more during the longest running adult webmaster radio show on the web. Hope to see all make it virtually, in RL, or just as a pair of ears listening, whichever you prefer.

The 276th two hour of tech radio show starts at Script School 2pm PST / 5pm EST / 10pm GMT and your attendence and opinion is welcome and encouraged:
http://www.scriptschool.com/radio/ <– radio show feeds (look for the 24k and 56k links)
http://www.scriptschool.com/commons/ <– java chat
irc.scriptschool.com #scriptschool port 6667

Toll Free caller line (US and Canada): (800) 634-2718
Skype line: TDavid

## Hour #2: — Mainstream — Worksafe –
(via webmastercookbook.com — LIVE commercial free, no carbs education) show #75 — starts at 3:30pm PST ###

A reality-based family-friendly webmaster e-learning show. Follow along as a Jowl and Spawn learn webmastering and programming, step-by-step.

90 minutes catering to adult webmasters and 30 minutes for mainstream webmasters every Friday … it’s the two hours of tech radio show starting at scriptschool.com

http://www.scriptschool.com/radio/ <– radio show feeds
http://www.scriptschool.com/commons/ <– java chat
irc.scriptschool.com #scriptschool port 6667 <– IRC

We now have a TOLL FREE call-in line (US webmasters only) for webmasters! Stop by the IRC chat for the phone number so you can call into and interact during the live show!

The 253rd edition of Script School Radio will continue the focus on recapping the SS Battle of the Indie Bands 2005 artists to date. Also:

- Drama ensues over OPML spec
- Does any legitimate, free PHP/MySQL hosting exist?
- Yahoo releases another niche browser and API: Y! Site Explorer
- XM, Sirius or neither?
- Whedon’s Serenity flying in theaters everywhere
- Cold Stone Creamery rocks!
- 500,000+ people subscribed to watch TV on their cell phones
- Rollyo part of a new breed of API mash-ups
- Annoying Microsoft video ads in Zinio appearing, auto-play enabled by default
- Google personalize adds “remove result” feature
- TiVO starts $150 early termination fee for new customers with rebates
- Warner Music wants to play hardball with iTunes over 2006 song pricing
- MusicGiants offers up to 1100k lossless files starting at $1.29 per track
- Internet advertising up 28% compared to first half of 2004
- Google removes the index count, says they are “more comprehensive”
- MSN flirting with Adwords-like program … in Singapore and France first, US to follow in October
- Skypers can call toll free numbers via SkypeOut for free in France, Poland, UK and USA — this means listeners outside USA/Canada can now call Script School radio live for free!
- Mac segment: Mac OS X update includes tabbed IM, Safari updates and more

The 253rd two hour of tech radio show starts at Script School 2pm PST / 5pm EST / 10pm GMT and your attendence and opinion is welcome and encouraged:
http://www.scriptschool.com/radio/ <– radio show feeds (look for the 24k and 56k links)
http://www.scriptschool.com/commons/ <– java chat
irc.scriptschool.com #scriptschool port 6667

Toll Free caller line (US and Canada): (800) 634-2718
Skype line: TDavid

## Hour #2: — Mainstream “Safe for work” –
(via webmastercookbook.com — LIVE commercial free, no carbs education) show #53 — starts at 3:30pm PST ###

A reality-based family-friendly webmaster e-learning show. Follow along as a Jowl learns webmastering and specifically how to create his very first website, step-by-step.

Drinks (cool stuff like RIAA-free music, free scripts, affiliate programs, websites, and more):
- PHP.net and php-scripts blog resource

Appetizers (hungry for knowledge, this will get you started)
- Spawn and Jowl learn write their first PHP script

Main Course (the meat and potatoes of the show)
- PHP script basic structure

Dessert (fun and fat-free stuff)
- assigning the week #1 to-do assignment

The Check (what did we learn today)
- checking Spawn and Jowl’s knowledge

90 minutes catering to adult webmasters and 30 minutes for mainstream webmasters every Friday … it’s the two hours of tech radio show starting at scriptschool.com

The 249th edition of Script School Radio will focus on how contextual analysis of content can help with categorization and tagging. Also:

- Listen to 2 hours of tech show through IE or Firefox browser
- Google Talk released, Gmail says no more invites … as long as you have a mobile phone # in the US
- Skype announces SkypeWeb and SkypeNet … is coming soon
- O’Reilly getting flamed over ads preying upon their Google PR
- Linspire installation adventures and report
- Reaching 1,000 stumbles
- Yahoo Toolbar gets better by adding Y!Q DemoBar functions for highlighting text and dump to search
- Sony PSP firmware 2.0 available, complete with web browser, and already a hack for homebrew is out
- Twilight Zone slot pays nearly $3 million, sets record
- Atlanta Journal Constitution makes it even harder to register for their news, thanks to BugMeNot
- generate your own magazine covers
- Call For Help coming back to US starting Mon Aug 29
- Buying and using a Tablet PC for the right reasons
- Skypers can call toll free numbers via SkypeOut for free in France, Poland, UK and USA — this means listeners outside USA/Canada can now call Script School radio live for free!
- Mac segment: Arizona school gives iBooks to each student instead of textbooks

The 249th two hour of tech radio show starts at Script School 2pm PST / 5pm EST / 10pm GMT and your attendence and opinion is welcome and encouraged:
http://www.scriptschool.com/radio/ <– radio show feeds (look for the 24k and 56k links)
http://www.scriptschool.com/commons/ <– java chat
irc.scriptschool.com #scriptschool port 6667

Toll Free caller line (US and Canada): (800) 634-2718
Skype line: TDavid

## Hour #2: — Mainstream “Safe for work” –
(via webmastercookbook.com — LIVE commercial free, no carbs education) show #49 — starts at 3:30pm PST ###
A reality-based family-friendly webmaster e-learning show. Follow along as a Jowl learns webmastering and specifically how to create his very first website, step-by-step.

Drinks (cool stuff like RIAA-free music, free scripts, affiliate programs, websites, and more):
- BodyTrans 14 day free trial

Appetizers (hungry for knowledge, this will get you started)
- What did Jowl learn at camp about leadership?

Main Course (the meat and potatoes of the show)
- Accepted for YPN and first thoughts

Dessert (fun and fat-free stuff)
- Jowl on working out after three weeks

The Check (what did we learn today)
- Weighing in with Jowl

90 minutes catering to adult webmasters and 30 minutes for mainstream webmasters every Friday … it’s the two hours of tech radio show starting at scriptschool.com

While battling css, I found some nice linkage to a php hack around the IE css Box Model Problem. Its a great alternative!

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Upon further review at w3.org they are all acceptable. At least according to their table located here: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/index/elements.html. This also includes a list of acceptable attributes.

Introducing the 239th production of the two hours of tech show starting at Script School Radio:

Topic: Motivation and Organization
Host: by TDavid
Music: Kameltoe & the Bad Habit
LIVE: 2:00 - 3:30pm PST

There comes a time for every Webmaster, sooner or later, that regrouping, retooling and refocusing is important. Today on the program we’ll discuss ways to remain motivated, get re-motivated as well as the importance of organization as the stable of websites grows from one to many. In addition we’ll touch on:

- The Greasemonkey phenomenon: a radical, cool idea or abomination? User upside, yes, but what is the webmaster upside, if any? We’ll break this one down in detail. Also we’ll discuss the platypus and rip extensions
- Google’s new feature: Personalize or Portal (the slippery slope?)
- Notes on the history of podcasting
- Plenty of desktop search options obsoleting benefits of Gmail search
- Tablet PC achilles heels: price and availability
- Seattle concertmaster settles out of court for negative blog post
- The Links Machine now accepts Blogs!
- The $8 billion dollar software piracy problem
- Three weeks ago blogevent.com was created. Today we’ll be doing our third dry run blog event starting at 3:30pm PST
- Mac segment: handy, safe dashboard widgets

The 239th two hour of tech radio show starts at Script School 2pm PST / 5pm EST / 10pm GMT and your attendence and opinion is welcome and encouraged:
http://www.scriptschool.com/radio/ <– radio show feeds (look for the 24k and 56k links)
http://www.scriptschool.com/commons/ <– java chat
irc.scriptschool.com #scriptschool port 6667

Toll Free caller line (US and Canada): (800) 634-2718
Skype line: TDavid

## Mainstream “Safe for work” –via webmastercookbook.com — LIVE commercial free, no carbs education, starts at 3:30pm PST show #39 ###

LIVE: 3:30 - 4:00pm PST

A reality-based family-friendly webmaster e-learning show. Follow along as a Jowl learns webmastering and specifically how to create his very first website, step-by-step.

Drinks (cool stuff like RIAA-free music, free scripts, affiliate programs, websites, and more):
- Chatzilla basic IRC client, Colloquy on the Mac

Appetizers (hungry for knowledge, this will get you started)
- Creating your own IRC channel
Main Course (the meat and potatoes of the show)
- How to create, protect and run an IRC channel as well as basic IRC commands and protocol

Dessert (fun and fat-free stuff)
- Jowl’s take on why he didn’t want to go to Star Wars III

The Check (what did we learn today)
- Take the weekly quiz along with Jowl — what was learned today?

BONUS:
3rd dry/test run: blogevent

4:00pm - 5:00pm PST - stop by and work on your drafts along with other bloggers.
chatroom: irc.scriptschool.com #blogevent

This week’s Script School 2005 Battle of the Band musicat artist, EL84K is providing a free video as well that mixes a political message, rock and roll and even throws in some B-grade alien movie reference. We’ll also be checking in with Forser live from Sweden in setting up a MySQL database based on a Q & A list and covering the following:

- opp #1: Earthcore author looking for programming help
- opp #2: Wordpress plugin/mod competition
- Bill Gates one year anti-spam progress report
- looking at when and where Full Page Ads work (FPA)
- searchable oodcasts via podscope
- no porn on Google Video a result of the Wall Street morality tie-in?
- Free Real Basic Standard ($99.95) offer ends today (April 15, 2005)
- Filing a tax extension and get until August 15, 2005
- API category on Script School news
- Mac segment: 90+ days of Mac ownership

The 234th two hour of tech radio show starts at Script School 2pm PST / 5pm EST / 10pm GMT and your attendence and opinion is welcome and encouraged:
http://www.scriptschool.com/radio/ <– radio show feeds (look for the 24k and 56k links)
http://www.scriptschool.com/commons/ <– java chat
irc.scriptschool.com #scriptschool port 6667

Toll Free caller line (US and Canada): (800) 634-2718
Skype line: TDavid

## Hour #2: — Mainstream “Safe for work” –
(via webmastercookbook.com — LIVE commercial free, no carbs education) show #34 ###

A reality-based family-friendly webmaster e-learning show. Follow along as a Jowl learns webmastering and specifically how to create his very first website, step-by-step.

Drinks (cool stuff like RIAA-free music, free scripts, affiliate programs, websites, and more):
- Free video storage online — ourmedia.org and (new) Google Video

Appetizers (hungry for knowledge, this will get you started)
- Should we use Google video to distribute our instructional videos?
Main Course (the meat and potatoes of the show)
- Adding Google Adsense to a Wordpress blog

Dessert (fun and fat-free stuff)
- Looking for good MP3 Join / Splitter programs

The Check (what did we learn today)
- Take the weekly quiz along with Jowl — what was learned today?

In addition to code snippets, from time to time I’m going to post jobs/projects that I come across as well. Check out this one from Craig’s List - WordPress Wizard Task:

Task is to
-convert a webpage into a WordPress 1.5 Blog
-relocate the web page at a new host
-provide simple procedure to publish webpage

Please request details and provide quote via email Payment via PayPal or bank transfer

A little earlier I posted on MakeYouGoHmm but you can see below that we’re going to start
adding Code snippets to be added to Script School News:

From time to time myself, and a few other folks are going to start posting small code snippets to serve as real world examples of how to use built-in functions, variables, arrays, DB connectivity, etc in PHP and other scripting languages at the Script School News blog.

I’m excited about using this to help sharing. If you’d like to get involved and share your own original snippets demoing small uses of functions for various coding languages and databases, then please drop me an email at principal at scriptschool.com and I’ll get you an author account.

Here’s a few snippets for Wordpress 1.5 to grab the post ID and post_date inside The Loop:

$post_id = $post->ID; // returns ‘13′
$post_date = $post->post_date; // returns ‘2005-03-18 12:13′