Today is the Seattle iPhone developer talk event. I'm headed for the ferry in a few minutes and figured I would give the Wordpress iPhone app a try. I'll update this post as I have time today.

Well, it was a long day! I used twitter a bit, but didn't have a chance for any longer updates here. Here are my impressions and short notes from the sessions

I attended. I attended 4 presentations: UI Design Essentials, Adding In App Purchase, Core Data, Testing and debugging and Networking.

Replace Yourself With Python

• ais_download.py - setup passwords for product download website
• mail-grep.py - Use IMAP and python to grep mail for specific strings
• mail_customers.py - Use smtplib and python to announce new releases to customers
• release.txt - Template file used by mail_customers.py
• ssh_thread.py - Threaded skeleton to run a ssh command on multiple servers in parallel with randomized start time.

System Health Monitor for Linux is a handy Python program that will setup your system to generate RRD Graphs of network interface traffic, system load, memory usage, disk space and inode usage and graphs of the number of running processes. It features a user-friendly interactive configuration mode and auto-generated html pages. Just point your web server to the health_html directory to get an overview of the status of your machine. You can see examples of it in operation here on my machine

http://www.safaribooksonline.com/

Full disclosure: I was give a 60 day 10 slot bookshelf account on Safari Books for the purposes of reviewing it, with the understanding that I would receive a full year free when I posted a review to the KPLUG webpage. No other strings were attached.

The Safari Tech Books project is an amazing undertaking. The online catalog includes 2013 (at the time of this writing) books from O'Reilly, SAMS, QUE, Cisco Press, and several other publishers. The full text and diagrams of all of these books are online and fully searchable.

MSP430 Programming with Linux

This is a presentation that I gave at Linux Fest Northwest 2005. It covers PC Board layout in Linux and programming the TI MSP430 microprocessor.

• Slide images are here
• Magic Point source is here

This presentation was also the basis for an article published in Linux Journal Issue #142

PICprg is programmer software for Microchip PIC programmers. It is designed to work with any of the PC parallel port types of programers for the PIC16C84 processors. It features a very flexible configuration menu where you can set the parallel port pin for each function, and test them. Setup is easy and only requires a voltmeter. It includes a user friendly setup menu, memory dump screen with hex display.

You should also read my Linux Journal article article describing how picprg works.

PhotoAlbum is a Perl program that creates a nice web friendly photo album of your pictures. It creates top level index files and individual image pages with optional captions, image statistics and file names using plain html for easy uploading to any web host. Navigation buttons make moving between pictures easy.

The Album generated it suitable for posting to a webpage, or burning to cdrom. One of the things I like to do is to take tons of pictures at family events and then burn cds for everyone. Having a nice HTML based photo album cdrom of an event is a big plus!

This is a simple PalmOS application that contains all of the information that I could find on the serial number ranges for various AR-15 manufacturers indicating whether or not the rifle is a 'pre-ban' rifle or not.

Select the manufacturer from the popup menu and all of the information that I have found for that manufacturer will be displayed in the main screen, if it is too large to fit on one screen the scroll bar will be enabled, use it or the up/down buttons to scroll the information.

TrollBridge is a set of Python scripts and iptable configuration that allows you to capture unknown network clients and authenticate them before allowing them to access the network (local, internet, 802.11 WiFi, etc.). It is based on the firewall script from NoCatSplash, but is written in Python instead of 'c'.

It can be used to to setup a network hot-spot for your business, school or home. The only authorization methods currently available are a skeleton username/password example, and an example using iButton devices. When a unknown MAC addresses tries to make a connection to the protected network the iptables rules redirect any access (web or otherwise) to port 5280 where the Apache server then displays the authentication page. Yes, MAC addresses are used to keep track of authorized users, so this system is susceptible to MAC spoofing.

up2dateiso is a Python script that will create current CD .iso images for RedHat 9, Fedora Core 1 and CentOS 3.1 with the latest rpm updates available. It also includes a custom KPLUG splash screen identifying when it was last updated.

This project attempts to update downloaded iso images with the latest security releases from the distributions. It support RedHat 9, Fedora Core 1 and 2, and CentOS 3.1 to one degree or another.