So the company upstairs had a bunch of cool looking computer junk in their doorway so I decided to pay them a visit and see if they were getting rid of any of it.  They happened to have about 15 of these 8 year old 1U servers that caught my eye so I bought a few for $40 a piece.  The boxes work great with a P4@2.4Ghz/1.5GB and stay nice and cool – not to mention look really bad-ass when stacked up.

So when I was checking Ebay to see what others were selling these for I found this hilarious dude trying to sell one for $800.  Pay close attention to the title / images, it really gave us a good laugh at the office.

Check out the mirrored ad-FAIL here.

It gets very repetitive writing forms for clients – that’s why I decided to take the last hour to write this piece of fine code.

It takes whatever title you give a form object and creates a copy / paste dump for your view, controller and Javascript.  It doesn’t handle checkboxes or select boxes – but that is because I find the form is not the time killer; it’s the Javascript and validation.  The nice part is that most of the heavy lifting is done for you – plus you do not have to worry about spelling mistakes or silly syntax stuff because it is all duped in the script.

I’d like to pop this up on a subdomain after making it pretty – please comment if you think you will find this little app useful.

PS. During the recording I noticed a small error in the code – no need to comment, it is fixed now.  The json_encoded array was returning a value that would not display in the error fields due to a mismatch in the name.

UPDATE : Check Out the Application Here!

I have fully tested the generated code and it works great, here’s a video demonstrating how to use “FormTorch”.

You may or may not have noticed some uptime / server response issues with geekhut – this is because we have moved!  Our friend Randy Powell at GSMCall has graciously donated several powerful VPS boxes for geekhut, rappiddev and enumplus (among others) and we could not be happier.  Since I was so pleased with this service Randy and I came to an agreement to host all of our clients on a similar VPS box complete with a User Panel I have been tirelessly working on for a few weeks now.

One of the biggest problems switching hosts is migrating email accounts, luckily we use Zimbra and it was extremely simple – this is how I did it :

imapsync –nosyncacls –subscribe –syncinternaldates –host1 old.server.tld –user1 user@domain.tld –password1 password –host2 new.server.tld –user2 user@domain.tld –password2 password

IMAP Sync is a wonderful application that can easily be installed on RHEL5 / CentOS using the DAG repository (just google “DAG”).  There are three or four Perl dependencies to get it working however once you have everything installed you are ready to import.

This is more or less a note for my own records – hopefully you will find it useful as well.

Joe Roper has written a spectacular article (and script) for those looking to beef up their Asterisk boxes with a powerful fax server. HylaFax is by no means new – but the simplicity of configuration and minimal effort required now to get an enterprise class fax service in minutes is ground breaking.

I just set it up in less than ten minutes and am sending + receiving faxes over VoiP (your mileage may vary) over my IPKall extension! Heres proof :