Comments for zerolight

Comment on SummerBoard by zerolight

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:32:40 +0000

I see that there’s an iPhone iTouch 2.0 compatible app called Winterboard which is basically an overhauled/re-written version of Summerboard. Of course you need to use the latest version of pwnage to essentially jailbreak your 2.0 hardware. No problem though as it’ll still happily work with the Apple Appstore and the Cydia2 Installer. However… there’s still no reliable replacement for MobileScrobbler on 2.0 hardware. And 1.1.4 is still more stable than the latest 2.0.x firmware. I’ll keep waiting.

Comment on Custom Guitar Order by zerolight

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:54:46 +0000

I am indeed. Unfortunately my playing’s not progressed much since 1992 when we last played together.

Comment on Custom Guitar Order by Richard N

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:39:07 +0000

Mr D, you are still burning the axe then from our Highburgh Rd days I see. I stll own me wee SG and last played in 1992….

Comment on Canon 40D Impressions by zerolight

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:54:57 +0000

5D MkII - I’m sure that’ll be a corker. An expensive corker, but a corker none the less. Nikon D3 - one of the first things I’d buy if I won the lottery.

Comment on Canon 40D Impressions by Adam

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:32:14 +0000

I did a comparison test in the studio between my 30D & 40D; there’s not a lot in it, although the 40D is physically easier to use. Quality wise the RAW files are (as expected) marginally better, and the shadow noise at higher iso is much improved, though not quite at Nikon D3 standard.
Roll on the 5D MkII…

Comment on EF 50mm f1.8 II Thoughts by zerolight

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:59:09 +0000

I’m gonna get the EF50. I already miss it now that I’ve given it back to JC. Some time in the future I’ll also pick up one of the Tamron AF17-50mm F/2.8 Di-II lenses. These look to be great value for money, nice and fast, and pretty decent for landscapes and walkabouts in poor lighting. Certainly seems better than the equivalent priced Canon lens, albeit without any IS.

Checked out your site Adam, impressive. Your photography skills shame mine. Good luck with the business. You still have a day job too?

Comment on EF 50mm f1.8 II Thoughts by zerolight

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:21:52 +0000

Well it faired much better today. I think I’ve maybe been carried away with how fast the lens appeared to be, and ended up introducing motion blur. Today, instead of locking in an aperture I locked in a decent shutter speed.

Comment on EF 50mm f1.8 II Thoughts by Adam

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:15:02 +0000

The first of the 2 links I posted, that shoot was outside in January iow very low light. Are you using a single focus point?
You would NOT love a 24-70L, unless you were VERY lucky to get a good ‘un. The Tamron 28-75 is a better bet if you must get a 2.8 (The Sigma 24-70 is mediocre at best). The 24-70L seems to fair better on full frame sensors, most complaints seem to be when its on a crop chip.

Comment on EF 50mm f1.8 II Thoughts by zerolight

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:21:07 +0000

I’d love a 24-105l or 24-70L. Never got any focus issues today with the 50mm. Probably because I had much better light.

Comment on EF 50mm f1.8 II Thoughts by Adam

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:29:05 +0000

I’ve been using this lens for about 8 months now, and have never had focus issues; and thats on personal and paid work. http://mathesonphoto.blogspot.com/2008/01/beth-and-make-up-junkie.html
http://mathesonphoto.blogspot.com/2008/02/rock-chick-chic.html
both of these entire shoots were done on the 50 1.8. I just wish it was in a metal body.
It costs more, but try the 85mm f/1.8; it is a brilliant (& better) portrait lens. The 50mm f/1.4 is wwwidely reported as having build quality issues. My mate has the 85mm f/1.2 and that is WOW.
For general use I use the 24-105L IS; I did have the 24-70L but that was one of the many with back-focus problems.

Comment on Custom Guitar Order by Ian D

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:09:55 +0000

Sounds superb. What a great word shmear is.

Comment on New WordPress / Joomla Modules by zerolight

Mon, 19 May 2008 17:38:19 +0000

Deepak,

As far as I can tell, the ffSEF mambot rewrites the permalinks in mojo blog component so that Joomla understands them? Whilst that might well work, thereby allowing you to enable permalinks which until now were unsupported in mojo. However, my modules, like any Joomla module, do a lookup in the database tables and pull out post ids and titles for use in say, recent posts. It then builds up a normal, joomla URL, based on those IDs, so that Joomla can open the relevant post in the Mojo component. If you enable permalinks, then the URL that Mojo expects is going to be significantly different to the URL that is written by my module, since it’s a regular Joomla style URL.

It’d take a bit of effort on my part to rewrite these modules such that they’d generate permalinks instead of joomla urls. When I have some time, I’ll try to figure out what is required to do so, but unfortunately I don’t have a lot of free time these days, so it may not be for a while.

Comment on New WordPress / Joomla Modules by zerolight

Mon, 19 May 2008 06:37:28 +0000

Ooh, I dunno Deepak. I see you been discussing this with Kevin… if he can’t get you up and running, nobody can. I’ve never had much luck getting friendly URLs to play entirely nicely with mojo or jd-wp. They only ever seem to work up to a point. That said, it’s never broken any of my Joomla modules before.

Do you have caching switched on in Joomla. Sometimes that can break friendly URLs.

Comment on Agua Leopard Folders by Ian D

Sun, 18 May 2008 21:52:14 +0000

:-) Used the originals on Tiger - http://www.flickr.com/photos/ian_d/531937088/in/set-676966/

They are a lovely set of icons.

Comment on New WordPress / Joomla Modules by zerolight

Tue, 06 May 2008 11:00:50 +0000

Hi Dan. If I recall correctly - this was discussed on the old joomlify forum, and it doesn’t look like Kevin has imported the old forum posts into his rebuilt site, but it’s related to the version of mysql that is installed, where a function is missing or something like that. The workaround was remove the where date less than now clause in the select, as this function doesn’t work with some versions of mysql. In theory, with the latest version of my recent posts module, all you’d have to do was tell the module to display future posts (set that parameter to Y) and it won’t use that bit of SQL anyway, which saves hacking the SQL to remove it.

Comment on New WordPress / Joomla Modules by dan p

Mon, 05 May 2008 21:12:01 +0000

hello. nice work with all these. I am getting the following error:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /export/home/webs/okaystage/htdocs/modules/mod_mojo_rposts2.php on line 53

you can see it here:

http://www.okayplayer.com/index.php?option=com_mojo&Itemid=134

i am not sure what that top error is as well. i posted on joomlify.

cheers
dan

Comment on New WordPress / Joomla Modules by joshuacitrak

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:30:48 +0000

hey there-

first, thanks for your quick response.
yes, your assumption was correct, i am using the rposts2. now, i am going to make an assumption and re-download the module, install it and then follow your instructions about the links in the title/brief post description.
hey, just like to say thanks again.

Comment on New WordPress / Joomla Modules by zerolight

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:10:13 +0000

Hi Joshua. So on the assumption that you are referring to rposts2, I’ve tweaked that module to handle embedded links. However, there is one issue remaining there - you are able to choose the maximum size of the summarised post, and if you have a link that starts before this maximum size but ends after that maximum size, then that link will be poorly formed and will break the module. Until I have time to code a workaround for that, I suggest that you make sure that you set your summary large enough to cope.

ps. the tweaked version is available to download.

Comment on New WordPress / Joomla Modules by zerolight

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:45:47 +0000

Hi Joshua. To be honest, of all my modules, the sidebar module is the one I never use, as you probably notice from my own site. I broke the original sidebar down into chunks - noteably recent posts, categories, admin, latest comments, archives, etc.

However, when I get time, I’ll take a look at sidebar for you.

edit: I don’t even seem to be hosting the old sidebar module any more. Is it really sidebar you are referring to? or is it perhaps recent posts or recent posts 2?

Comment on New WordPress / Joomla Modules by joshuacitrak

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:24:42 +0000

hey there-
i’m using your sidebar2 module, thanks for making this available. i’m using it in conjunction with mojo blog.
i have one question, though, about it. it seems that whenever i make a post that includes an embedded link, the posts below it in the side bar “break”, by which i mean the grey dot that indicates a different post is gone and the posts become jumbled and the description text changes in size when rolled over.
i’d also like to be able to adjust the padding between posts.
could you point me in the right direction toward solving this problems?
thanks a bunch.

Comment on They’re Home by hans stolte

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:10:34 +0000

Well done Zeenid and Graham, one new user to add to the PS3 .

All the Best from Hans, Lynn and family

Comment on Is the PS3 finally finding it’s feet? by hans stolte

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:08:31 +0000

MGS Online was available yesterday, not that youll have time for it, and a huge patch as well, think my PS3 is still downloading it.

Comment on Rafi’s Story by dietbruboy

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:32:15 +0000

Congrats to you both!!!! I called you yesterday, home, moby, work moby (old number, doh!) and got answer-machine after answer-machine. Knew something was up!!!! Then checked email, doh! Anyhoo, welcome Rafi, prepare to get fussed over majorly! Speak to you soon fella, Roy.

Comment on Rafi’s Story by talkrhubarb

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:14:06 +0000

congratulations to you all! Kids start off surprising you and never stop do they?

Comment on New WordPress / Joomla Modules by zerolight

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:04:07 +0000

Sure. Just add new parameter to the modules xml file along side the other parameters…

Give it a param name=”moduleclass_sfx” type=”text” default=”" label=”Module Class Suffix” and that should do it.