Jun 29
Stumbled across this video of Steve Ballmer going berserk about how much he likes Microsoft.
I don’t think it’s normal to act like this.
I’m not sure if I’m worried more for the employees or for poor Steve.
Jun 26
Attendees
David from Insight Indonesia (site?)
John Insight Media
Tony from Inlight Media
Martin from Magnetic Websites
Joomla Plugins discussed or presented
Ignite Gallery - Presented as a flexible image gallery (Commercial)
Andrew Eddie’s Admin component Advanced Admin Menu
Andrew Eddie’s Content Manager component which works with
JX Control for access control
Joomla Works Ultimate Content Display some very impressive examples and demos, can display any content anywhere
Smooth Gallery but it seems a bit half baked
Phoka for commenting on articles – can’t find the link?
JomComment for commenting
JCE Image Manger Can supposedly do multiple uploads. Bah so can the MCE commercial plugin.
Joomla’s inbuilt Custom HTML module – Need to create a new module to see it, but it is inbuilt already.
InLight are using in a project of theirs:
DT Register for registrations (Matt not sure re quality)
DT Donate for donations
Phil Taylors Joomla Tags (Allows automatic tagging of content I think) Hmm I hate it, it uses jQuery and the comments are 50% negative. Why use it?
Capistrano for deployment
Little Snitch for ??
FishEye Menu (uses jQuery) – nice but have to dig around for the menu
Donation Plugin http://hybing.com/
Extras I found while browsing:
Phoca download plugin I will use it soon!
Joomla Themes discussed
Mynxx – A flexible theme. I think this is the right link, it’s a commercial Rocket Theme.
Hive Mind from Rocket Theme (in built tabs plugin)
Themes developer http://www.gavick.com/
Hints and Tips
Lightbox, to close it you can hit Esc.
Java ftp uploaders for clients to upload files – but then they need Java. Might work for one or two clients or corporate environements.
Joomla’s inbuilt Content – Load Module for loading any module in a content item
Invoicing software/website revolvehq.com (Australian company used by InLight) (link?)
Project Tracking software www.redmine.org
RSS Feeds to Joomla
Use feed2js.org to format the feed for the content item, and then read the content item.
Wordpress Plugins
The WordPress ecommerce bible http://www.instinct.co.nz/e-commerce/
Other Stuff
Radmind Loadsets for software deployment of multiple application builds (on Windows, Mac, etc)
ZFS File system, Bill Moore, Sun Engineer, Video, Interesting.
www.iCyte.com internet research tool
May 23
May 23
One example of how to create a new Joomla user using just SQL in LQM.
The example in the LQM forum post isn’t really correct because it only checks the name field, which isn’t part of the jos_users table primary key. In fact the only part of the primary key is the ID field, which is kind of useless. I guess the question then is “what is the natural key”? I’d say the keys to really check for are username, and email address.
In the next part of this article I show the SQL I used to create a user and confirm it will create correctly without errors.
May 22
Finally I’ve discovered iTunes. Yeah OK I’ve been living under a rock.
Most importantly since I’ve ditched my TV I’ve discovered visualisers. These are the programs (plugins to iTunes) that create pretty screen patterns that move in time to the music. Lights out, big screen, wow pretty!
For the record I currently really like the standard visualisers that come with RythmBox on Ubuntu, but G-Streamer for iTunes isn’t too bad. G-Streamer is programmable so you can adjust the colours and patterns in real time. You can even script it so your favourite mix has it’s own patterns.
RythmBox on Ubuntu just looks cooler, more dynamic, prettier… not sure why. (I rip the CD with iTunes, then I boot to Ubuntu and play the tunes with RythmBox on the NTFS drive. You need to install additional codecs to play the iTunes AAC files but it’s easy.)
That said, it seems like I don’t know nearly enough about the in built iTunes visualisers. Ah well, more to learn.
