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By Dave, August 23, 2005 3:11 pm

Jville.net

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Just getting through with a facelift on Jville.net. Now got to get the Jacksonville Business Directory pulled apart and into a database and I’ll be about through with this site anyway…

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By Dave, August 3, 2005 11:36 am

Been poking at wordpress for the last few days and it’s starting to poke back a bit.

I’ve been trying to figure out a way to have a thumbnail on one page and the full sized picture on another without having to add a bunch of excess code. The site(s) that I need this for are for collecting and/or selling books and I want to display the front and back covers of each. The location on each page will be the same.

The problem was having to do a lot of copy and paste on each page.

I spent days looking at image handling programs or plugins or anything with image in the name by the end of it as there doesn’t seem to be anything quite for that purpose.

So… I got to looking at the custom fields that WordPress has already built in. I looked around and found a plugin by the name of Get Custom Plugin Values that allows a whole lot of customizing using a few simple calls. This sucker rocks!!

It took me about 15 minutes to get it working and start converting the site over to use the new format. The way I have it set up allows me to add one custom field with the name of the file stripped of the ending (a=front cover b=back cover) and the .jpg. The code then adds the img= and all the prefix info. I could do most of the prefix with wordpress calls and I plan to at some point but for now this gets me past a bottleneck…

Then I got to thinking about it some more. With the addition of another custom field – price – and some added pre and post stuff I think this can turn any wordpress post into a “for sale” page. Planing on using paypal for the shopping cart and payment gateway, so that code is already done just got to plug it into place.

The only thing left is to see if it will work. With the proper code on the paypal return page I think I can clear the price field with so the item shows up sold. 😉 Inventory control at point of sale… Simple. I think.

Add a few category pages with different search criteria and it looks like wordpress can be a full e-commerce platform that also allows blogging…

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By Dave, July 31, 2005 3:12 pm

OPML Editor support: Mac Version Out

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A Mac version of the OMPL editor that Dave Winer n friends have been working on. I am trying it out and it looks interesting. I would want to run the server on my on domain instead of using his but so far the ease of updating is there. Markup is there. Links and images are there. So…

This looks good so far Dave! Thanks!

Now all I have to do is burn out a few more brain cells trying to figure this out… 😉

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By Dave, July 27, 2005 10:07 am

freshmeat.net: Project details for NoMachine NX

NoMachine NX is a fast terminal server system
based on the X11 protocol. In addition, NX also
translates and embeds the MS Windows Terminal
Server and VNC protocols into X/NX. NX is an order
of magnitude faster than VNC or X11 and can run on bandwidth
as narrow as 10 kBit/sec. By embedding RDP and
RFB, it enables users to compress and accelerate
remote Windows and VNC sessions. NX lets you work
fluently even across slow links like modems. The
NX project provides a suite of libraries and X11
proxying agents implementing efficient compression
and optimized transport of X11, SMB, IPP, HTTP, and arbitrary protocols like audio over the
Internet.

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Went to the site and looked around a bit and it sure looks interesting. The works over even slow links like modems is gonna make a lot of new apps available that depend on close machine/desktop interaction that haven’t been possible before now. The times I have had to use pcanywhere over a modem it’s been almost painfully slow. Haven’t tried it over a fast link so no idea but I suspect it takes a lot more pipeline resources than this does.

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By Dave, July 21, 2005 9:44 pm

Ravenous

Version 0.3.0 released. I need to download a copy and try this out. It sounds like a dynamic sitebuilders dream.

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By Dave, July 21, 2005 11:37 am

NewsForge | Hooking OOo to MySQL

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This is amazing! Other than that I got nothing yet. Gonna see if NeoOffice has it yet as it’s the only OOo I have on here (iBook).

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By Dave, July 19, 2005 4:34 pm

Resuscitating Microsoft Exchange 5.5 with Linux – OSNews.com

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I’d go with straight linux but if you have users that have to have exchange this makes much more sense than the microSloth option…

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By Dave, July 16, 2005 11:10 pm

Digital Needle – A Virtual Gramophone

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He actually gets some noise out of the scan of a record. interesting concept!

Seems to have been done in 2002. not heard of it before.

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By Dave, July 16, 2005 5:10 pm

by david e. patty — 200507161700

bit by bit,
day by day,
i type and code
my life away.
the websites done!
the app’s all run!
but through it all,
sites large and small,
the thought still lurks –
there’s nothing there!
not even air!
just
bit
by
bit

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By Dave, July 14, 2005 9:29 pm

Using DarwinPorts

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Personal note here. Just installed it to try to get gimp installed on this mac. Been fighting fink and apt-get all day. So wanted to be able to remember where to look to find the link to the docs… never mind. nothing to see here. just move along folks…

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By Steve, July 12, 2005 9:23 pm

This one is interesting. I am posting the Slashdot listing because the comments give a better understanding of what is going on here than anything else I have found on this issue. Apparently several of the slashdotters have known about this for quite a while, and have been in communication with either Intel, or AMD, or both, about this. IANAL, but AMD’s case is looking better all the time. Sabotaging your compiler to make your competitor’s processor run slower than yours may not be against the law, but when you deny it in the face of what the code says, it sure ain’t going to help your monopoly court case.Slashdot | AMD Alleges Intel Compilers Create Slower AMD Code

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By Dave, July 11, 2005 6:12 pm

freshmeat.net: Project details for Ampache

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New Ampache is out.

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By Dave, July 10, 2005 9:10 pm

eXe: the eLearning XHTML editor |

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Haven’t spent much time on this site but it looks interesting for teachers if no one else.

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By Dave, July 9, 2005 12:37 am

LinuxCommand.org: Learn the Linux command line. Write shell scripts.

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This is a good site to learn about Linux and scripting. Definitely a site to bookmark.

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By Dave, July 4, 2005 10:33 pm

Netcraft: PHP Blogging Apps Vulnerable to XML-RPC Exploits

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Thanks for the heads up, Steve.

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By Dave, July 4, 2005 2:27 am

OSV – $10,000 server software solution free: OSV makes offer to every Australian school

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This is cool! I have, just this last week, discovered xampp which I now have running on puppy linux, pclos linux and mac os X. The only one that gave any trouble was puppy and that was minor. More later on all this. Will fix links in then too. Time for some shut eye…