Little Truck

Turns out that at jobs (a.k.a. the at queue) don’t support some of the shortcuts you can use in most other flavors of *nix, times like “15:00″, “3PM”, or “teatime”.

In OSX, you have to specify -t YYMMDDhhmm. Example:
at -t 10081637.30

Don’t forget the CTRL + D to schedule it!

In my example, I have it pointing to a file that has only one line:
sh uploadAtCertainTime.sh

No more waking up at 6AM (that’s 9AM EST) to upload press releases!

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Here is my uploadAtCertainTime.sh script:
#!/bin/sh
USER=username
PASSWD=supersecretpassword
ftp -n ftp.myhost.org <<script
user $USER $PASSWD
binary
cd public_html
lcd /Applications/xampp/htdocs/[wherefileslive]/
put file.html
quit
SCRIPT

Post Script: this only works if you leave your computer on. D’oh!

I have a client who wants a distance calculator AND Google Maps. I thought it was impossible, but upon reading a Maps discussion board I found this. And then I created this.

The next task is to figure out how to create these points on the fly.