Lo que viene siendo

I have been trying to get a nice weather widget for my desktop, and even when the default widget in OS X is really nice, I wanted to get a more custom version for embeding in my desktop with geektool.

I was struggling to get Yahoo's RSS feed parsed with awk and sed, so I decided to switch approaches and use PHP's json_decode and YQL.

One of the disadvantages of this is that YQL still has some limitations in the info you can query. For example, you can't get Temperatures in Celsius. But that's not a big problem.

I work for a company that uses Drupal in a lot of sites. I have been developing most of them and coaching the team of developers that made the rest of them for two years now.

We have all learned a lot and always try to "do things the Drupal way" but sometimes even the most awesome CMS won't cut it for the specific needs of one particular site. And from what I have learned, none will.

Enter the "Media company"

I was trying to get the network througput of my MacBook from the command line and tried to install ntop but I was not able to compile it, so I started looking at all the other commands that were already there and came up with some "netstat" switches that were able to do what I wanted.

GeekTool is a pref pane for mac os x that overlays text from shell commands into the background of your desktop.

I have been using this to monitor a few things on my PB for a few days and it's great.

Anyway, I came up with a very simple ip reporter that dissapears when not connected and shows you your ip address when connected to the wireless or wired network, and your external ip when this is possible.

It has a few problems, mainly it can be slow sometimes, but I haven't figured out why yet.