Archive for January, 2010
Getting Horde logged-in username & full name
A customer wanted to be able to pull the current logged in username AND the full name of the user to use outside of Horde to populate some on-the-fly flyers.
Getting Horde to tell us the current logged in user was no problem. Three lines of code. However, the trick was getting the full [...]
Show real names in hover in Who’s Online
To this day, SMF (Simple Machines Forum still doesn’t show users the real (registered) name of an online user, but whatever custom name they have chosen for themselves. This makes it hard to know whom someone really is, especially if you want to send them a PM and you can’t find them by their [...]
Installing SoX w/ MP3 Support on CentOS 5.x
First off, this article assumes you already know the basics of using the yum repositories, downloading & extracting tarballs, and compiling sources on a CentOS 5.x box.
So recently we were given the task of installing the latest version (14.3.0) of SoX (Sound eXchange); on a new CentOS 5.x machine.
The base of CentOS already comes with [...]