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December 14, 2003
Brief moments of fame
So I've gotten briefly famous in the last few weeks for a program that I wrote. It's been inspiring to say the least. I wrote about mt-blacklist a few weeks ago. It's a very useful tool but was missing one piece so I decided to write a helper program to go with it. A few hours later I had mt-blacklist-autoupdate written and out on the net. I then installed it on cementhorizon, it worked great and I forgot about it. Since then people have been downloading it and using it. Here's some of the response (I'm glowing) :
- I’m running Gene’s PHP updater, and it appears to work perfectly.... Jay and Gene: thanks!
- Gene’s little program works a treat. I didn’t know anything about .php or what a crontab was - but I do now! Thanks Jay and Gene.
- It’s similar in it’s operation with Gene Wood’s updater... I’m indebted to Gene’s pioneering work and his Snoopy bugfix (which frustrated me for an hour until I took a closer look at his README file)
At this point another guy, Cheah Chu Yeow, wrote another updater partially based on my code. His program, MT-Blacklist Update uses lots of mine and looks to be pretty cool.
Anyhow, I'm just so proud to have my skills recognized and praised, not something that happens much in my life.
Posted by gene_wood at December 14, 2003 03:32 PM
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Gratitude is undoubtedly the biggest motivator for me as well. It feels good to provide people with something they need.
So, thanks for creating the blacklist updater. It was definitely a piece that is currently missing from MT-Blacklist. This will be remedied in the future with a very easy-to-use yet extremly advanced system of interconnecting blacklists, but until that time comes, this was an important bridge.
Posted by: Jay Allen at December 14, 2003 05:02 PM
Congrats Gene! Hopefully this is just a prelude to the long and enjoyable programming career you can look forward to having.
Meanwhile, once I get quasistoic.org up and running, I'll be sure to implement some gene-etics myself. (Quasistoic.com was bought out by some domain-head-hunting bastard while I was distracted by South Florida Yellow-tail (Tuna's, of course)).
Posted by: Brian at December 15, 2003 12:35 AM
congratulations! you have mad skills; i've always said so.
Posted by: didofoot at December 15, 2003 08:25 AM
mad skills. :)
Posted by: stingray at December 19, 2003 10:11 AM
Sweet, autoupdate has been downloaded 117 times!
Posted by: gene at December 28, 2003 05:00 PM
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