jenn December 13th, 2008
-> Scroll down or click here for my Geo Mashup - TDO Miniforms solution <-
So much for being on an extended vacation. For the last couple of days I have been completely engrossed in building a new website. I have fallen back into my old habits of staying up all night and coding, getting some sleep, grabbing some coffee, and coding some more. Ah, just like the good old days. The ones before the corporate machine killed any enjoyment that that behavior gave me.
Back in those days, Wordpress, Joomla, and Drupal didn’t exsist. You (I) did everything by hand. You wanted a web based file manager, a web based mysql manager, or a bulletin board? You wrote it. Now, we have all of these wonderful content management systems with tons of great plugins. But, they come with their own head aches too. You want a certain kind of functionality? Time to start hacking.
Thank god for open source.
Tonight I ran into that situation. From what I have read, a lot of other people have too. So, I decided to post my solution in hopes that it helps some one else.
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johnny November 7th, 2008
On 2008/10/25 at 12:11 PM, Brent wrote:
Hey guys,
Currently working my way through your all your postings. My wife and I are in the “can we really do this” stage of making the same change that you two have. Very much enjoying reading through your process.
Much like you two, we both work in technology and are somewhat dependent on the Internet. Add to that, the need for research / blogging / and potentially some work while traveling and connectivity gets to be one of our important decisions. So I’m curious, how are you feeling about the cell network decision versus satellite? Working out as you had planned?
Brent
Well, Brent, I’d have to say I don’t like any of the choices available. I’m pretty happy with the performance of EVDO, but I’m extremely upset with Sprint changing the contract midstream so that it no longer remotely resembles the class of service that we originally purchased. I have already ranted about this particular event once, so I’ll try and stay on subject…
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Hitek Homeless July 23rd, 2008
The Truck:
2001 Ford F-350 Lariat
- Dual rear wheels
- Crew cab
- 4×4
- 7.3L Diesel (International)
- Timbrens
- Front and rear cargo haulers
The Camper:
2008 Arctic Fox 1140
- Wet bath
- Couch seating
- Full-wall cabover wardrobe
- 9k BTU Air conditioner
- No oven or microwave (more storage!)
- Thermal pane windows
The Bikes:
- Trek RST 3700
- Roketa MC-17-50T (Sicily)
The Internet:
Sprint EVDO service (for now you greedy bastards!)
- Novatel U727 EVDO card
- Cradlepoint CT350 Wifi router
- Dual-band Omni-directional external antenna
- 3 Watt Bi-Directional Dual-Band EVDO amplifier
The Network:
- Fujitsu Lifebook 1510
- Dell Vostro 1500
- ReadyNAS 600 (700GB RAID5)
- 2 Cowon A2’s for random movie/music access
The Blog:
- Wordpress
- Gallery2 image gallery
- WAY too many plugins
- Feeds by Feedburner
- Hosting by HostGator
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jenn June 27th, 2008
We now support OpenID as a method of authentication on our site. I see that a number of folks are adopting it as their standard method of logging in, so I figured that I would make it easier for them. But, that’s as far as I support it. Don’t get me wrong. I want to know if you experience any problems with it on our site and will work to resolve them. What I mean is, I am not using it myself.
I really love the idea. It could solve a lot of the authentication issues that I have created for myself after using about 30 different username/password combinations and a number of email addresses @ different domains in the more than 10 years (more like 12+ now, but I still say 10+ for some odd reason) I’ve been in the computer industry and on the Internet. Every once in a while, I spend about 3 days trying to log in to a site that I haven’t visited in 2 years. That can be very annoying. If I only had one ID, it would save a lot of hassle.
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johnny June 17th, 2008
Well, I hate to be ‘that guy’, but we’ll at least make a passing nod to the fact that you’re seeing a brand new site today.
Jenn and I (read that as mostly Jenn), spent the past three days getting our new Wordpress blog and gallery off the ground, importing the old blogger posts, cleaning them up a bit, and troubleshooting everything under the sun as upgrades and dependencies collapsed left and right.
You may now bask in the glory of the new blog. No touching!
There’s still a ton of work to get it where we want it, so try not to break it. That means you.
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