Phoca Gallery Joomla Plug 404 Error Resolution

Posted by on Apr 30, 2009 in Joomla, Web Development | No Comments

Here’s an oddity that I don’t quite understand, but am happy to simply note the solution for. =) Installed Phoco Gallery on two sites recently. On the first site everything works fine. On the second site clicking a thumbnail generates a 404 error. Hmm. Everything is configured the same, but I found this post on […]

Notes on Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress

Posted by on Apr 23, 2009 in Web Development, WordPress | No Comments

Found a great WordPress plugin for automatically generating/updating a Google sitemap file for a blog. It’s called Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress and it’s pretty slick. Had some nice debugging features to help out developers with odd environments, too. The one problem, and I saw this coming, was that the entire blog directory must be writable […]

Great Email CSS-Compliance Chart

Posted by on Apr 17, 2009 in Web Development | No Comments

Great chart over at Campaign Monitor showing what CSS properties various email readers (both desktop and web-based) support. Handy for those of us who craft HTML-based emails for clients. =)

Some Useful Facebook SEO Information

Posted by on Apr 14, 2009 in General, Technology, Web Development | No Comments

Here’s a couple of links worth reading that pertainto Facebook and SEO/SEM… How to Make a Fan Page in Facebook Why You Need to Make a Facebook Fan Page for Your Website NOW!

Server Side Includes on Linux

Posted by on Apr 14, 2009 in Web Development | No Comments

I so rarely use server side includes (SSI) on Linux systems that today I ran into the same problem this guy had. I use them all the time in our Windows environments, but in our Linux-based PHP-world, I use the PHP-based versions (include or require). It’s basically just a matter where you can’t include something […]

WordPress Media Upload Issue

Posted by on Apr 13, 2009 in Web Development, WordPress | No Comments

More permissions issues. After installed WordPress 2.71, make sure /wp-content/ is writable by WordPress, or you will have to manually add the /wp-content/uploads/ directory and make it writable by WordPress. This could very likely take the form of 777 permissions (groan).

In Trouble with Copyright Police

Posted by on Apr 10, 2009 in General, Technology | No Comments

Warner Music correctly identified their unlicensed music in a couple of YouTube videos I posted for our Heath High School reunion in 2008. Videos are still there, but muted. Grumble. Will have to get some new music for those sometime soon. Here… Here… Here… And here…

Huzzah! New hard drive installed in MacBook Pro!

Posted by on Apr 10, 2009 in Technology | One Comment

Preface: You have to understand that Apple really, really, REALLY doesn’t expect (want?) folks to be upgrading the drive of their MacBook Pros. This was nothing like the nightmare involved in an old clamshell iBook drive upgrade, but boy howdy I’ve never seen so many screws. Whew. Just a follow-up from a previous post where […]

Dumb ol bracket…

Posted by on Apr 7, 2009 in General | No Comments

Another year, another loss. Matt Selman sums it up for me.

Caffeine levels in various drinks

Posted by on Apr 7, 2009 in General, Technology | No Comments

Found this link at CNN interesting today. From the article… “It is not just coffee that can lead to caffeine withdrawal. While a 6-ounce cup of brewed coffee contains about 100 milligrams of caffeine, tea and cola have about 40 milligrams each, a bar of milk chocolate has about 10 milligrams and hot chocolate has about 7 […]