I noticed that my email wasn’t going through, and found that this blog wasn’t up and running. Not that I update it much anymore.
So, I grabbed the latest & greatest of WordPress — wow, has it changed.
I’ll have to play around with this some more, but I’m favorably impressed!
While checking my email this morning, I found a number of bounces from different organizations. Apparently, spammers are forging the “from” address and using random “ciulla.org” addresses.
I hate spammers as much as the next person — please be aware that it’s really not me sending these damnable things.
While WordPress rocks, it’d be nice to see it evolve into a full-fledged content management system. As such, I’ve decided to move off of WordPress in favor of Drupal.
This is in no way a condemnation of WordPress — I just need “more power!” (Arrr arrr arrr)
I’ve moved all of my blog content to csquared.org, and will eventually redirect the ciulla.org domain there.
In a word — wow.
After messing about with GoDaddy.com’s hosting, this is like heaven. I was up and running in exceptionally short order — even the domain was propagated in no time flat. I did run into a bit of a problem with adding on the ciulla.org domain, but this stems more from my impatience than anything else as I tend to forget that propogation takes time.
While it’s tempting to completely dog GoDaddy’s service offering, they do a great job for their target audience — folks new to web hosting.
Once I get all of the old content off of ciulla.org, I’m definitely cancelling GoDaddy’s hosting service.
I’ve been reading a pre-press version of a science fiction novel, Rodger Olsen’s The Empire of Texas. He used one of my ideas to make the opening a bit more dramatic, then turned me into one of the characters — I die a noble but gruesome death at the hands of neo-Luddites.
My battered remains are found by future archeologists and properly buried with “A Good Man Lays Here” inscribed upon my grave marker.
How cool is that?
I’m using Mambo to revamp a small software company’s website.
Naturally, there’s quite a few product screenshots. To help manage them, I installed Gallery 2 and the Mambo/Gallery2 integration stuff.
On the Mambo side, I needed to add a trailing slash to the component’s “Full Path to Gallery G2″ and enable the mod_gallery_block.
After getting a “ERROR_CONFIGURATION_REQUIRED”, I found that I needed to install and activate the “Image Block” module on the Gallery 2 side.
I was in business… Almost.
When I clicked on the mod_gallery_block on the site, I got a lot of “headers already sent” errors. After searching the web to no avail, I took matters into my own hands. I edited Mambo’s index.php and moved lines 194 through 198 to line 9.
Success!
Now, to work on getting the embedded Gallery 2 content to look like it’s part of the site…
Like a lot of programmers, I’m very… meticulous… when it comes to writing code. I detest looking at malformed code, and will reformat it — if not refactor completely — at the first opportunity. But, like a lot of geeks, I’m lazy efficient, so I use a class of utilities called beautifiers to help maintain my code (well, other’s code, but let’s not get snarky).
I’ve used HTML Tidy to clean up gnarly web pages…
I’ve used Jalopy to clean up mangled Java code…
I’ve even used a relatively ancient Visual Basic 3.0 one back in the day. The name escapes me, but it was in 1995 and I remember I paid $100 bucks for it. Given the nature of the code I was working with, it was worth it.
After googling awhile, I stumbled across a yacc version and a couple of on-line versions here and here. The former on-line one has some Delphi source available for download — too bad I haven’t used Delphi for years.
So, why is it so difficult to find an open source SQL beautifier similar to Jalopy or HTML Tidy?
When I get an opportunity, I’ll have to knock one out.
One of the truly cool things about blogging is that you can help someone out just by knocking out a quick description of the problem, how you solved it, then blogging it.
Sometimes people you’ve helped don’t take the time to say, “Not only have I read your entry on X, it helped me out. Thanks.”
Ron Miller helped me out with a particularly annoying issue between RoboForm and Firefox 1.06, but he didn’t realize it.
For that, thanks Ron.
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Snopes comes to the rescue again!
Drupal travels pretty well — here’s how to do it.
In optimal conditions, this works. However, on my target environment, I have a couple of unresolved issues beyond my control:
Other than that, it was remarkably painless.