Our local paper made some national news by becoming the nations first Twaper. When the site MountainX was visited on April 1st, users were presented with a number of twitter feed modules. Some of those feed widgets were filterable by twitter #hashtags.
The twitter.aspx page pulls down a copy of the twitter search results in Atom format. A XSL stylesheet converts the results to a friendly HTML format, which are then ported to a div tag using JQuery.
A nice straightforward cell phone video publishing website. They offer pretty good living streaming and video archiving. Below is quick test done while at The Dripolator in Asheville taken with my Blackberry Bold.
Last Sunday I took some video of the Asheville Mardi Gras parade downtown. After I got home, I realized that converting the 3GP format into anything web ready was a long drawn out process. I’ll use this site instead since they offer a download in .flv and .mp4 formats. They also include embed code with each post.
Today I posted a sturdy new version of the free yard sale software. I’ll be adding some live yard sales for this coming weekend so we’ll see what happens. As usual, I am testing the build on one of my own domains, so no clients were harmed in the process.
Some additions.
-Add up to 4 photos to a yard sale.
-Turn by Turn driving directions.
-Individual yard sale printer friendly pages.
-City Specific yard sale directory.
There is still the subscriber and email marketing section that isn’t reworked yet. I am going to research that a bit more before moving forward on that piece. After I’ve done some testing and finished coding, I’ll post a new build for download.
I have been using Google docs for some time and haven’t had an issue ( as for as I know of ). But every now and then I wonder if someone is spying on my stuff in the cloud. Here was an interesting article about Cloud computing.
Some of the issues that IT folks need to focus on as they consider cloud computing include security, privacy, availability, and performance. Governance requires applying policies, access controls, monitoring, and auditing to corporate use of cloud services.
One of the trickiest aspects of cloud governance involves just where data is located when it’s in the cloud. As Fratto notes, it’s not unusual for software-as-a-service and other cloud vendors to store data on servers managed by another company. In effect, there can be two or more degrees of separation between your company and your company’s data.
A while ago, I tried google adsense for domains, but for some reason couldn’t get it working and didn’t get around to figuring out why. I was able to put the unused domain to work today and got some more MySQL and Wordpress experience out of the whole process. Got more Adsense represented in my name so a productive day overall. Spent most of my time plugging in a new Wordpress template recommended to me by Don over at Makovision. I liked it, came out nice and somewhat professional looking I think.
Recently I received an unsolicited request, nothing new here, I am sure we all get our fair share of spam style link requests. But at the time I’d been enjoying the spirits and decided to fire off a reply to see if there was a human on the other end. To my surprise there was another web guy with his hand on a half finished beer and a crackberry in the other. So today I decided to review his website and see what links make sense to add.
A very well done notepad template, truly near and dear to me since I use notepad for just about everything as it makes for a great lowest common denominator among programming projects.
Bryant has a whole other list of other usable free templates that are really pretty good, the Notepad version takes a really specific personality type though.
Bryant Smith is Florida web designer: a professional web designer/developer/marketer located in South Florida.
The first stop on my vacation this year was Wallowa Lake Oregon, it’s a nice quaint little snowy mountain town in upper eastern Oregon. I stayed with some good friends, Angie and Keith Garoutte just outside town. Angie works as a news director at the local KWVR radio station and Keith is semi retired law enforcement. It was very sunny my first day here, but the second day it was a bit more blizzardy (sp) than I am used too. During my time at the radio station, we had some pizza from New York Richie’s who’s owner did some work on the A-Team and various other Hollywood stuff. I had a great time hanging out and watching the snow drifts and .
With the status of the overall economy, I figured it would wise to research MySQL as a possible alternative to SQL Server for client development. It seems we all must do more with less, and MySQL being essentially free, it’d be worth checking out. 15Seconds does a great job explaining the install process of a new MySQL server. There are a ton of articles about the differences between SQL Server and MySQL and worth reading if you plan on implementing either in a production environment.
So I converted a Data Library that uses either MySQL or SQL Server based on the data provider you’ve specified in the web.config.
<connectionStrings>
<add name="MyDB"
connectionString="server=localhost; user id=uid;
password=pwd;
database=db; use procedure bodies=false"
providerName="MySQL.Data"/>
</connectionStrings>
The library can execute and return datasets, datareaders, scalars and nonqueries using either Plain Text or Stored Procedures on either platform.
Dim dt As New Utilities.DataTools
dt.SetParam("?prm_ID", 0, ParameterDirection.Input, MySqlDbType.Int32, 1)
Dim ds as DataSet = dt.ExecSQLDataSet("
SELECT * From Table Where ID = ?prm_ID", CommandType.Text)
dt.Dispose()
dt = Nothing
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