From time to time, I need to find out what the TCP/IP address is for a particular computer. Sometimes it is one that I’m sitting in front of, but sometimes it is a remote machine that I’m connected to via telnet or ssh. I know there are a lot of web sites where you can find out your TCP/IP address, but I’ve created another. I’ll get to why in a moment. If you want to see what your TCP/IP address is without a bunch of advertisements or other clutter try this page: http://www.comitservices.com/ip.php. The results are simply your TCP/IP address; no more, no less.
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Archive for March, 2009
What is my TCP/IP address? Find out with a Groovy script!
Sunday, March 29th, 2009Working with PHP and Shopping Carts
Sunday, March 1st, 2009A suitable subtitle would probably be “And now for something completely different”. I’ve not done anything with PHP in a very long time. The good news is that the NetBeans 6.5 IDE provides support for development and debugging PHP applications.
A friend on my wanted to create an e-commerce web site to sell jewelry and gifts. After doing some research, I selected a web hosting company that included an easy to install shopping cart application written in PHP. The application was a slightly modified (perhaps just older?) version of osCommerce. It turns out that osCommerce is one of the leaders in this space and provides numerous features and community developed modifications that can be added. This also turned out to be a drawback.
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Article about Jetty at IT Jungle
Sunday, March 1st, 2009I realized that I never mentioned an article I wrote last summer for the Four Hundred Guru at IT Jungle on how easy it is to install and use Jetty on the iSeries (IBM i now).
I have been using Jetty on different computers for years. It has proven a reliable and easy to use tool that I would recommend for your toolbox.