Archive for February, 2008
boo hoo – $135 million, 18 months… a dot.com story from concept to catastrophe
boo hoo is a book about the rise and fall of boo.com - the short lived fashion and sports clothing retailer that appeared at the height of the .com boom and collapsed when the bubble burst. The book is written by Ernst Malmsten (who was the CEO and co-creator of boo) along with Erik Portanger and Charles Drazin (whose link to Ernst is [...]
FTP uploading a directory of files using perl
Here is a simple script to upload the files which are in a particular directory. I use something similar to automate the file uploading for my tube walking blog. Whenever I take photos for the blog I put them into a directory with the current date as the directory name. So I have a structure like [...]
Roll on one click updating of WordPress plugins
Today I saw the future of WordPress plugin upgrades. Anyone who has a WordPress blog with a number of plugins installed will know how much of a chore it can be to keep those plugins up to date. The official way of upgrading any plugin involves: Spotting the plugin has a new version available from the WordPress plugin page. Downloading [...]
