The following instructions explain how to convert a VMWare (CentOS 5) virtual machine, into a Xen DomU guest machine. The basis for this tutorial was this post by David Nalley.

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LazzyMonk has created a Magento extentions which integrates a WordPress instalallation. At present, his extension only works (cut and paste) with WordPress 2.5.1.

A client hired me to fix an implementation on WordPress 2.6.. here’s how I did it:

(If you don’t want to do it manually, simply download the modified …

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One of the things I find most rewarding about blogging is the “feedback loop” it creates between writer and reader.

There’s a sense of excitement and anticipation that I get from crafting a new blog post, publishing it to the world, and sitting back and waiting for feedback.

Since this “feedback loop” is one of the primary reasons this blog exists, I’ve tried to make it easy and rewarding to leave comments.

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Funky Penguin’s mail is hosted via Google’s Free “Google Apps” service. This means that all mail sent to our domain is routed via a Gmail interface (2GB per email account, up to 100 accounts!), before being downloaded into Outlook, Mail.app, etc.

I’ve recently started filtering my email rather stringently, as my …

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Greasemonkey is a great little extension for Firefox, which lets you install little snippets of javascript to customize the pages you see. There are loads of customization scripts for Facebook. The following are the ones I consider useful, and am currently using.

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I recently had reason to convert the latest DD-WRT firmware .bin file to .trx format, so that I could manually flash my WRT54GL. Not wanting to risk it, I first converted the .bin image with the following command:

[sourcecode language=bash]dd if=firmware.bin of=firmware.trx bs=32 skip=1[/sourcecode]

Which I found here.

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I’m a huge fan of Jesse Vincent’s Request Tracker – I run my own implementation, and I’ve setup several custom implementations for clients. I wanted a scrip (yes, that’s how you spell it!) to automatically assign incoming requests (specifically the ones received via email) to a queue, based on a …

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Thanks to the awesome “Bookmarklet Builder” at www.subsimple.com, and through careful examination (and duplication) of the kick-ass “quick-post” plugin and bookmarklet for WordPress, I’ve been able to whip up a simple bookmarklet for Drupal.

Drupal 4.7+, 5.x+ …

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I stumbled across an obscure bug in the latest PHPList (2.10.5) today.. I setup a development environment to pre-test a WordPress PHPList integration, and as a result, we were dealing with relatively long URLs in the RSS feed, for example :

http://phplisttest.penguinlabs.funkypenguin.info/… wordpress/2008/03/06/steve-wozniak-has-pent-up-iphone-frustrations

(I chopped …

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PHPList allows you to record arbitary details from your users at signup – i.e., their name, surname, favorite TV show, etc. You can then re-use these variables in your mail messages, by placing “placeholders” into the content. For example, “Hi [NAME], how was [TVSHOW] this week?” would translate to “Hi …

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