Yeah. Photography is time consuming, takes alot of research but it sure is fun. as of lately i think i’ve found some kind of balance in my life. Spend time with a lady friend, work, pereson web development and photography Everything is going on fine non of them suffers.. Well I do from time to time (tired as hell at times).  But I’m really happy with how everything is pulling together gotta give God some thanks yknow.

Here’s a photo i took of my gear the other day (some things are missing). It made me ralize that I really need to start pulling some serious ROI on this photography thing.

This shows how much of a photo junkie I am

But thats all you guys get here, I post daily at my photoblog photoja.net. We have a project going on over there called the 365 photoproject. where we gotta compose 1 shot a day to post. Going well so far. I have’t put up my shot for yesterday though So sorry to dissapoint those who check daily.

Re  personal web development everything is going fine no problems or complaints. Re work Things are fine there as well.

Oh big tings instore for the linux users ubuntu hardy herron is about to drop we got 30+ days to go. The timer is on my blog side bar. so i hve 30 days to clean up my system this time i think i’m gonna go with a fresh install instead of an upgrade like i always ddo. I’ve been upgrading my ubuntu book for about 3 years now. and it still runs fairly decent.. just the other day i realize it start get slugish.

Hope you like it. Not much different from an rss feed as its basically doing the same thing. only different is it has a bit of colors thrown on it and its in the google gadget directory.

My weekend for the most part was spent working on tech.in876.com. N i noticed a little issue that shortly after picking up on it woulnd’t sstop annoying me. The post count for child board / child forums weren’t there.  so you wouldn’t knwo if any post is in a sub forum without looking.

I decided to look at the table structure for the forum component and then mathed out the logic and queriess to get the topics to work. Fell asleep on it last night and commpleted it within 1 hr after i woke up this morning. With the topic count working it was just a matter of modifying my custom queries to get the replies to work.

After completeing it i went over to the developer forums and posted the fix. Hope it helps them. The fireboard forum component for joomla is really nice. If everyone contributes maybe we can stop worrying about briding vbulletin with a joomla powered site. Lets take fireboard to their level.

And remember fireboard is Free

 Here’s my fix for the child board topic and reply count

um.. honestly all i can say is in876. I been putting alot of time and effor on the weekends and when i get home from work into my lil project. the first of which to come onstream is http://events.in876.com or http://eventsin876.com the masthead “banner” for the site is just temp i know the text is ugly but the designer is taking a bit longer than expected so it’ll be up maybe next week.

read the about us or F.A.Q to figure out what the events.in876.com calendar is, thought it really is blantantly / painfully obvious.

Yaw seems like i’m a pretty good programmer / Employee. Appraisals went great and i really was worried for nothing. The time thing was an issue though,,it made me get int he 80 percentile instead of 90’s for my over all grade. but i’ll get em next time.. I have six months to show them what i’m made of.. In other things my department (production) got some literature I was the first to borrow a book heheh.. Build your own ajax web appplications..A sitepoint book.. So soon i’ll be rolling out ajax apps like nothin.. :p…

FVWM is a desktop enviroment for the unix/linux operating system. very light weight ahd very highly / extensivly customizable. i

mean you can do whatever you want with it down to every single T of how it looks and behaves.. this is both its winning and losing point in my book. because you have sooo much controll it is sooo dificult to conifgure. However with 1 sleepless night a morning of cussing my self and fvwm for letting me not slseep the previous night sleepign on the wway home i have finally solved my problems and have my fvwm enviroment looking all kewl.. here’s a little sreenie

N.B i did not make thiss config from scratch i just made little changes here and there, the entire config would take me ages. i haven’t go tthat time for that at all.

So yknow i was board after getting in and just started doing ssome random checks as i usuallly do, the business directory is generally one of them.. i figured let me do some googling on some jamaican organizations or just some organization that i think would be listed and to my surprise the results where very much infavour of the business directory.

first was BWIA International Ltd.

which pulled the business directory as result number 2 and 3 in google test it yourself

second was Super Plus Food Store
which pulled he business directory as result number 3 in google test it yourself.

My third and final test impressed me the most and this was Billy Craig Insurance Brokers Limited
which pulled number 1 and 2 in the business directory see for your self. The reason why this impressed me so much is we were higher than billy craigs website in the google result set, but billy craig gets no negative impact from this because the searcher is still gonna get redirected to his sitei n the long run. so its a win for MR Billy Craig anyway

The business directory definatly works both the small and large business models who have any kind of webprescense at all and even if you dont have one you could still list as it gives you a chance to have some kind of online profile which google will detect and yknow thtas where people are looking for stuff most the time.. When i have some tmiee to spare i will run this same test wwith these 3 organization in yahoo and msn and do a comparison

where the directory fell down was not becauase of its architeture at all but actually due ot the lack of organization information provided by the client.. which really is their own fault if you think about it.

Good idea Bad Idea
if your a web developer and your running a linux distro your definatly gonna need lamp. I hope in this day and age your using some kind of repository to install your apps but if your a from source install guy or girl thats cool.. for a basic lamp setup you will need

for apt get peopole sudo apt-get install apache2 php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server
for source poeple find and download the following
apachex

libapachex-mod-phpx

mysql-server

phpx-mysql

phpx (or whatever version will be out at the time)

anything additional you want just pull the module in for it.. example phpx-sybase (mssql db processing) phpx-gd (image processing) etc.

To keep your hands of the cli for mysql and make your life a little bit easier you can download phpmyadmin either from repository or just download the file and extract it to your /var/www dir or if you prefer in your public_html dir if you have enabled the public_html module in apache which would allow you to browse your to your public_html dir in your home folder via appache eg

http://localhost/~yourhomedir/ - this displays the contents of the public_html directory in your home directory so no longer will you need to sudo to add content to your /var/www directory..

another little thing if / when you install apache to enable the public_html module just edit your apachex.conf file which maybe found in your /etc/apachex/ dir. when your finished with your edits restart apache with sudo apachexctl or sudo apache /etc/init.d/ apachex restart ( you may stop it then restart it if you please). if you end up getting a warning saying apache cannot deterine the hostname just add the hostname “localhosts” to your httpd.conf file which is also found in /etc/apachex/

thats all the linux knowlege i feel to share tonight i just thought finish setting up lamp yet again and i ran into those were the issues so i figured.. someone might want help and might stumple across my blog one day