RackSpace Reports

For those of you who make use of RackSpace for your web hosting, you may notice there is no option to get full reports on every Domain you have with them, let alone the Sub-Domains, nor where they are all pointing. If you want that type of information, you have to manually view each page, one by one.

I was put in charge of creating a Web Audit, as the company I work for own over 260 domains, numerous servers with RackSpace, and going through all of that one by one could prove daunting, and could take anything up to a couple days to complete.

Being the type of the person that I am, I wrote a small command line application in C#, which logs into our RackSpace account, navigates to the relevant web pages, and then strips the HTML for all the information we needed to do our audit. I plan on releasing the source code for this (after a bit of cleaning up, as it was very quickly thrown together), so that others may make use of it, or even alter it to gather additional information from other sections of their RackSpace administration panel.

Big Update

It's been quite a while since I've made a blog post, I haven't forgot about my blog, however I have been constantly busy with numerous other things! I am finally starting to get everything organised, so updates should start to become a bit more regular (finally!).

So let's update some of the projects I currently have running, and their status:

• CartoLogix for Windows [ on hold ]
• CartoLogix for Web [ re-drafting ]
• W3R File Parser/Blogger [ in progress ]
• XNA RTS Game [ in progress ]
• .NET MVC Forum Software [ drafting ]
• Developing Your Own Diagram Software Book [ in progress ]

I also have two long term development projects, which unfortunately are confidential, so I am unable to mention  details of their development until completion.

CartoLogix for Windows is currently on hold, as I am in the process of converting it into a book describing how to develop your own Diagram Software in C#. I have not yet tried to find a publisher for the book, as I first want to complete a couple major chapters which I think would be beneficial for the publishing companies to give me a fair judgement, on whether they will publish my work or not.

CartoLogix for Web, the original project, which took me a lot of time to develop, I have decided to re-draft, as I am sure I can re-develop all of the existing features to be faster and more stable than they are at present. I also believe that I can do all of this in a mere fraction of the original development time, with a few tricks I have learned over the past year. I'll be posting updates on the project progress in future blog posts.

W3R File Parser/Blogger, is a small project I have undertaken. I was asked to create a plugin for WordPress, which allows the user to upload a W3R file, which will first be parsed for information, and then uploaded to a public FTP. The parsed information and Link to the file will be automatically posted into a new blog post, and blog formatting options will also be available.

XNA RTS Game, a Real Time Strategy game I am currently developing with Microsoft's XNA Framework. I have a full development team on this project, of which, I am the lead programmer. I will be making use of the Lua Scripting language for this project, and releasing the game on the Xbox 360 Marketplace.

.NET MVC Forum Software, something I have wanted to do for ages is write my own Forum Software, a good software package, which is written in .NET, offers a lot of flexability, ease of use, stability, and it best of all, open source (free to use).

That covers pretty much everything that is going on at the moment, I also need to redesign my homepage at some point, as the scale of work I am now undertaking has come to be a bit too much for the current design to handle.