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Hyzerflip Coming Shortly

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:03:43 +0000

Hyzerfip is up as a first version. Pretty much just to show what the site is looking like. Products aren't up but the homepage gives you the feel of the site.

More work will be coming shortly and always under construction.

Hyzerflip

This site is using my framework and we will see how far I can stretch it.

Find Rocky Lockridge

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:22:34 +0000

I am trying to find Rocky Lockridge. Former Boxing Champion, now living on the streets in Camden, NJ. If anyone has any information of his whereabouts or knows anyone that knows how to contact him, please inform me pronto.

Star Ledger - Former boxing champ Rocky Lockridge living on streets of Camden, estranged from family, abusing drugs and alcohol

Sorry for the absence

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:17:41 +0000

Sorry everyone. Been very out of it as well as occupied with the Halloween site I had built and my new Personal Vaporizer, Revolver Elite.

The halloween site is up, didn't get to finish everything on it and never went back to add more. Halloween Site .

I am currently using my framework on HyzerFlip store at the moment. We will be starting with PayPal payments.

My PV (Personal Vaporizer)
I am in love with my Revolver Elite . It is fantastic and a fantastic replacement for an "analog" (traditional) cigarettes. Check them out and give them a shot if you are a smoker.
I have added a new category to the blog for PV's and will have a review and some information up soon ( including some pictures and maybe a video)

Another New Site

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:39:57 +0000

I am putting together a quick site for the Halloween party we just had. This site is for people to upload their photos and see all the photos from everyone else at the party. Sure beats tracking photos down across all the social media sites

HALLOWEEN '09

Site Features:

Quick User System
Upload of multiple photos with descriptions
Ability to see everyone else's photos
Ability to comment on photos
Coming Soon:
- Tag Other People in Photos
- Search photos by tagged people

This is going to be an example of using my own simple framework to build a quick site. I may use a POG DB conn or my own, haven't decided, but this is very much my own simple from scratch mvc(page controller) framework.
This is looking to be a much simpler and quicker way to develop so far. I will want to create a good class to abstract the HTML Form stuff so CRUD doesn't have to be rewritten, but that is template stuff anyway.

This "non"-framework has its own template system for the view object, which is easy because PHP is a template language. I am going to implement some minor caching for menus into the framework to cap it off.
This framework is being derived from my work on Eaters , which I will mention soon in another post.
Thank you Rasmus.

SJDGC Forum - Completed ... Finally

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:28:13 +0000

So after a nice length of time (20+hours) I have finally finished the migration of the SJDGC vanilla forum to SilverStripe forum. It took a lot of hours for something so small.

The beauty of these types of projects for me is I get to use what ever method I would like to get things done. I get to use my old DB classes I have used for years and some straight no framework PHP coding.

things i missed when first planning

html -> bbcode
db collation issues

things overlooked

posts last edited field when not a topic starter
Members in the Community Member Status

After doing some test imports of the topics for the forum I realized a bunch of things I had missed when planning the migration. I forgot the fact that one database was using latin_swedish_ci for collation and one was using utf8-general-ci which led to some funky characters. This was fixed by the following.

if text field change to blob in db table
change back to your previous text field type
set collation to utf8 ... general_ci

The end result of all of this is the complete migration of the old forum into the new system. The users are linked to their respective posts. All the topics and comments are in place and the text is all correct.
A nice bundle of scripts for a Vanilla-> SS Forum migration. Also some nice utility scripts for fixing text strings I had to make after some DB corruption/errors/mistakes. And the cherry on top is some nice snippets for my PHP editor for silverstripe and my libraries... gedit :-)

// a super simple to strip non-ascii characters from a string
preg_replace ( '/[^(x20-x7F)]*/' , '' , $text_to_clean );

relaunch our lewis family

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:40:59 +0000

i have relaunched ourlewisfamily.org . this site is for lewis family members to stay in touch and up to date with family happenings and each other.

this is another display of a silverstripe site. i will be including some customizations as the site gets more use and am thinking of a new look for the homepage.

reinstall ubuntu 8.10

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:34:22 +0000

after some issues with Ubuntu9.04, i finally did a complete reinstall. nice and fresh and vanilla version of Ubuntu8.10. in my mind the latest stable release. they need to work on 9.04 some more before calling it a stable release like they did.

some steps for anyone that wants to know how to do a reinstall of linux without losing your data.

make sure you system is using multiple partitions on the tree
i never suggest doing a single partition install of any operating system including linux.
i have 11 partitions for my single harddrive to maintain mount point sanitation.
backup all data in "/home", "/root" and any other custom mount points you may have created.
if you have a webserver like apache installed you will want to backup "/var/www" aswell.
you may also want to make a backup of "/usr/local/src" if you have downloaded and built any program sources.
backup services/servers datas. if you use mysql do a dump of you databases.
BACKUP "/etc/"
you may need some old configuration files, especially if you have altered any of them yourself in the past
make sure you have copies of any modules you will need.
double check "/usr/share/" to see if you have any plugins, extensions, themes, icons, fonts that you need to have for applications you will be reinstalling.
*record your partition schema on paper so you can reference it later*

after backing up everything
you may start the install
download, if you haven't, the ubuntu8.10 livecd Desktop edition.
when finished burn this image to disc or create a usb autoboot drive
reboot your computer and set to boot from cd or usb
go through the whole setup and when asked for the partitions delete everything but your "/home" partition and the partition you backup your data too.
install will format drives and start installation.

after installation reboot and you should be set
copy data back into the folders you want
reisntall your server softwares
import your mysql backup

for the most part when using linux if you remember to segregate your data into different partitions you will be much safer and faster. smaller drives are easier to clean and you can unmount a partition and not worry about damaging any of the data.

my schema /dev/sda1 /boot /dev/sda2 swap /dev/sda3 / /dev/sda5 /usr /dev/sda7 /tmp /dev/sda8 /home /dev/sda9 /data /dev/sda10 /var /dev/sda11 /extra

issues ubuntu 9.04

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:16:52 +0000

after upgrading from 8.04-> 8.10-> 9.04 in less than a month i was stuck with a system that wasn't good enough. which as a linux lover was upsetting.

i have been a linux user for a decade and a ubuntu user for half of that time. i haven't seen such issues with upgrading since the old days.
current issues with 9.04 for me:

Xorg version doesn't support older FGLRX driver
USB problems

system specs:

AMD Turion64 1.8gz Mobile
2 GB DDR PC2700
ATI Radeon Xpress 200M - mobile
HP Pavilion DV5000z - laptop

the new Xorg server doesn't support the previous versions of the fglrx drivers and you have to use the community driver ATI or Radeon. this would be great on 8.04/8.10, when i was running them previously i stopped using the proprietary fglrx driver and used the ATI with much better performance and a better desktop experience. though in 8.10 reinstall the ATI/Radeon drivers are working just as bad as when I had 9.04 running. this also bothers me because i shouldn't have such issues and should have the correct open source ATI driver like the last install. funny how things work.

ultimately to get this version of Ubuntu running at the moment you need to hack your system a little bit. on 9.04 i pretty much completely downgraded the Xorg server to the one from 8.10 which is a little hacky for my liking. but it allowed correct fglrx driver performance.

USB issues are still there. long delay on autodetect and mounting. often times not having access to my wireless trackball and complications with touchpad.
i am thinking maybe the wireless being on the usb_core system might be messing up the enumeration. not sure though.

conclusion

time ... past, future and how to get there

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:57:32 +0000

this is a holder entry for my section on time, theory and social theory.

relativity - einstein

back to the future - and it illustration of paradoxes

grandfather paradox

quantom mechanics

quantom theory

cause and effect relationship

effect and cause relationship

string theory

society and how we could be and will have to be

... and even JC will make an appareance here believe it or not.

lastly i will be showing how my theories and philosophy can fit into any system of belief

this is possible because they are all talking about the same nonreligious principles i will be showing
* this is not to endorse a faith or to give it any backing or credit, this is to allow others to take these philosophies and fit them into their beliefs effectively. the point is to not shun these ideas but understand how important they are no matter where your beliefs come from, even if that means using religious texts to back these concepts *

this will all end up to be "the future - how do we get there".
i have a vast ammount to talk about on the subject and will try to make this as objective and informative as possible by trying to include all my references and sources. i don't like just throwing out opinions that are more than educated guesses without proof or evidence for the conclusions. to much of a political thing to do.
and as always if anyone would like to challenge anything or needs anything to be clarified please feel free to contact me or leave a comment.

further information: none of this will be meant to debunk or refute anyones beliefs or opinions. this will be my theories on life, people, philosophy and society with as much evidence from observation and knowledge as possible. i don't jump to conclusions quickly and i immerse myself into these topics before i have a formal "belief" ... law/theory ... for how things work. i don't take BS as evidence and theories are theories because they haven't been disproven not because they are correct. i am not the final answer on anything.

goal:
to inform and educate people on ideas that exist and to make people think. ultimately this is to get people to wake up and think as well. the social theory and society side will blow your mind if you allow the time to think about it ... about 3 weeks worth of thinking straight to get one point.

silkscreenexpressions moving forward

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:30:48 +0000

we are moving forward with silk screen expressions . we have spent time today updating some things and adding some flare.

newest udpates:

homepage

updated right side of page with icons instead of nubmers

updated navigation and removed numbers

implemented slideshow

updating site header
will now be using a javascript slide show to show off the latest tshirt designs.

will be updating the navigation accross the whole site and removing the numbers

new pages coming soon

i hope everyone else is as excited as me about these sites. i can't wait to get all the content up and functioning 100%. i am completely immersed in these sites and am going to make sure they get done this time :-) .