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BMW Fights Back

Josh — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:52:56 +0000

I enjoy a good brand fight every now and then. Pepsi vs Coke. McDonalds vs Burger King. Now BMW vs Audi.

Launched a New Site for a Friend

Josh — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:35:00 +0000

Another WordPress site is up. This time for QJF Services in Newtown CT. QJF is a professional landscape and property maintenance company. They have been providing quality service in Newtown for a number of years.

The site is built of the Buffet Framework and all jQuery. I need to upgrade it to 1.4 but for now it is 1.3.2.

Facebook pages to come.

Visit it QJF Services here.

HTML 5 + IE 8 = #FAIL

Josh — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:59:28 +0000

I am testing out HTML 5 for some time now and what it can do over conventional HTML 4.x. It is pretty cool. The way it is structured with new tags and able to play video. Add in CSS3 and you can get a really great looking web site.

The thing about HTML 5 is that it is not new. It has been in the works since 2007-ish, albeit that it is NOT finalized, it is further along than you would think. The latest version of web browsers like Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and IE 8 support it…wait…IE 8! IE 8 supports it? Ah…that would be a NO. Why? Why not support it? ALL of the other browsers do. Microsoft’s answer is it is not finished yet. But that never stopped them from supporting other technologies that no one ever adopted. Is it because Google and Apple are the big proponents of HTML 5 and Microsoft is scared to come to the table? Is it they are trying to come up with their own HTML? What gives Microsoft?

Microsoft, the company that was on the forefront of all technologies is now holding back the web with in adequate browsers (don’t get me started on IE6 from the year 200) and not inventing and pushing the web like these other companies are doing.

Microsoft #FAIL

New Theme…again

Josh — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:34:26 +0000

I installed Magaling theme before the new year. I liked the look. My plan was to modify it to have jQuery Tools to work with it. What I wanted was a tabbed interface where instead of clicking on the “nav” links, they would be tabs and you would slide to the next page.

Well, jQuery Tools did not play nice with WordPress. I got busy with the holidays and some other jobs. So I abandoned the idea for now, and installed a new theme.

Modern Style is what this is called.

WordPress 2.9 has been installed

Josh — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:42:59 +0000

Drew5.net received the 2.9 version of the renowned WordPress blogging platform. Upgrading was pretty straight-forward, just click the button and done. I deployed a 2.9 site today as well (Richard’s Rwanda).

I have 2 other main sites that I am debating on updating, but I needed to hack them quite a bit that I am not sure I will. Company intranet will be updated and a few other blogs I manage will be updated as well.

Wordpress for the iPhone

Josh — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:25:47 +0000

I am using the Wordpress app for the iPhone. I wonder if I can add images? Looks like I can.

I can now manage my blog on the run…like I really need that.

Farewell to First Social Media Site

Josh — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:51:25 +0000

I have been meaning to blog out about this for a while now, but quietly one of the first true Social Media platforms was killed off this week. To quote DownloadSquad who quoted Obi-Wan “we felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced”.

GeoCities was known for it terrible home pages. When I say terrible, I mean really bad. But, before blogging and Flickr and Facebook this was the way you shared your information, your stories, your photos. It took off for a bit but was pounced upon by other communities that did a better job.

Goodbye web 1.0 you will be missed but not forgotten.

Who Works for These Companies?

Josh — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:25:51 +0000

I am not saying I am the perfect employee or even one who never makes mistakes. I make my share. But I was in a situation the other day where I am working with a client on getting hosting set up for a new web site. I provided a document of what type of access I will need. User account for FTP, Shell access and file modification access to certain directories and read only access to others. I also gave examples of .conf files for apache of what I will need.

I get an email back from the hosting company and they provide me all the info I need. IP, Username and Password, file locations etc. Wow. Everything seems like it will work great. Well, that was last Friday. It was not until Monday when I was able to fully access the web site. First FTP did not work. SSH did not work either. HTTP did not work as well. Once they got FTP and SSH to work the document root was not set up correctly. Once they figured that out, I installed my software and database did some testing and found out my .htaccess file is not working. AllowOverride was not enabled (it was in my doc I sent).

So, in an effort to fix that they enabled Authentication on the site and I could not even view it. Argh. Finally done. But now we need to set up production.

Yet Another jQuery Lightbox

Josh — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:35:30 +0000

I have tried a ton of lightboxes. Thickbox, Greybox, Lightbox, Facebox, Boxy..etc… They all have their pluses and minuses but this one seems to combine all of the goodness of all lightboxes into one.

It is called prettyPhoto. I have not used it yet but on my next dev project I sure will.

Test Post for TwitterPost

Josh — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:45:50 +0000

I was using wp-twitter but I ended up changing my username on Twitter and everything blew up. I tried a few others like TweetPress but I was not impressed. So far TwitterPost seems fine.