The how and why of my programming
In The Works
Oracle Day & Comic Books
Oct 10th
October 18, 2011
Back in 2007 I attended the first SQLSaturday event in Orlando, FL, so it seems fitting to me that on the 18th, just next week, I will be attending the first Oracle Day & Product Fair in Charlotte!
Join us for the inaugural Oracle Day and Product Fair 2011 to discover how the power of simplicity can change your IT from a supporting function to a force that drives business innovation.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to hear multiple keynotes, attend technical breakout sessions and meet one-on-one with product/solution experts of Oracle’s Technology, Application, and Hardware pillars to discuss how you can transform your datacenter and power your cloud with hardware and software, engineered to work together.
October 29, 2011
After all that hard work and learning, I deserve some personal time, so I will be attending the Heroes Pop Swap event on the 29th! The event is sponsered by Charlotte’s favorite comic shop, Heroes Aren’t Hard To Find, and I will be there as browser, buyer and seller – I’ll have a 4′ table space with comics purchased in lots, typically poor condition, and personal purchases in mint condition. If it is on the table, I’ll probably let it go for anywhere from free to the price of the comic itself; I don’t want to know if the comic is worth $500 unless you’re going to offer me more than the price I paid for it! =P
Goodbye GoDaddy, Hello CyberWurx!
Sep 13th
For anyone following developments of this blog, I would first like to apologize for the downtime the past week after GoDaddy updated some Apache “security concerns” and the site stopped working. After a couple days of emailing customer support back and forth, it came down to that GoDaddy support said that my .htaccess code was bad and they couldn’t help me because they don’t support non-GoDaddy scripts; which was stupid because some of their own GoDaddy features were in my list of things not working anymore… （╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
Result: Left them for CyberWurx once again! (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ Yay~
I have had an account with Cyber Wurx since February 2005 and I have always been pleased with the service. I’ll confess that I strayed in 2010 to GoDaddy, when I started a new website, for their larger hosting space, but then it was a constant battle to get features working, so I am glad to be back with CyberWurx again. (Though I still maintained my other website with them.)
While GoDaddy‘s hosting is frelled, they are still a great resource for domain purchases and easy maintenance. If you want professional hosting and domain maintenance, you should check out Rackspace.com, though they are more for small to large businesses. A decade ago I was with HostRocket; who’s pricing was getting more outrageous then, yet seems almost desperate now. But overall, I like CyberWurx the best for hosting with reasonable prices, decent systems, excellent bandwidth and customer support that will rock your socks off!
Everything should be back up and running, but I am checking everything over connections and permissions just in case. I hope to have a real In The Works post by the end of the month outlining some of the things I’ll dealing with in Q4 and late into Q1 of 2012, including database administration and NetSuite.
In The Works, #1: June 2010
Jun 14th
In the last month there have been a few problems that have either popped up, or are just persistent ones that have been around for a while…
One of the long-term problems has been my custom jQuery tags with for Internet Explorer; I have a ticket at jQuery, but that it is being ignored for now. I tried a couple updated methods of doing the same thing without success. My next step will be to just make them all known tags and add a specific class to them to see if that will help any… yet knowing IE, I somehow doubt it. *sigh*
Another issue that occurred was during the launch of our 60 Days to a Hallelujah Diet website. It seems that all Microsoft e-mail addresses were blocking, what seemed to be then, all of our e-mails. The following day we found that our automated messages through iContact were also being blocked… Again a ticket was opened, but ignored. After a couple days of testing and doing everything we could from our end, even as far as updating our server records, we found that any e-mails which had an image linked from or a hyperlink to our new website was being accepted, after all, but being filtered before even reaching their Inbox or Junk box. (We were able to send normal messages and even empty ones through the server, but nothing with the links.) About a week ago the problem suddenly corrected itself, so our only guess is that Microsoft uses some sort of caches domain verification service which was killing our e-mails being of the domain link. Even today the ticket is open as no-one ever bothered checking or helping with it.
My own site has been getting some administration pages re-tooled as I update the code to make use of better queries, even though it adds an additional step. I originally designed my administration with idiot users in mind, but there is no reason for that when I am the only one to use it. Several of my modules now sport jQuery validation and I replaced my MooTools calendar app with the jQueryUI one. I also decided that my primary website with really just before linking, my resume, random files and a book release list I am maintaining. It should be updated before July… I hope. ^^,
As for actual upcoming posts here, to do with real web development, there will be new post next Monday covering an old topic, but with new information. After that I have a set of daily & monthly tasks that are helpful when you want to use statistical data from Google Analytics and have a thousand or more pages on your website. I originally wrote the script to backup 14 years of daily banner ad statistics, the client had over 140 million rows of data, into monthly results and daily results for just the 13 months; the result was that the page load times and resulting queries were handled appreciatively faster than before and they could still access all the data they needed to. But more on that at a later time…
Until next folks, see you space cowboy!
