Sorry for the absence

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)

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Comments (0) November 28, 2009 12:17 am

SJDGC Forum - Completed ... Finally

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.

  1. if text field change to blob in db table
  2. change back to your previous text field type
  3. 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);

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Comments (0) October 17, 2009 5:28 am

silkscreenexpressions moving forward

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 :-) .

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Comments (0) September 25, 2009 12:30 am

Work Work Work

working on sjdgc.com .. have to move old forum into the new forum software on the site, which should be fun. these are the things i love about the web, challenges. all members from the old forum have to be made into general site members as well and preserving rights and ownerships.

i will be tied up with that till the forums are moved over. next on the list

  • SilkScreenE - working on bringing in content and features into the site shell.
  • HyzerFlip - new site needs a layout and a page. will be getting ecommerce when up.
  • UltraStuff - my company site. looks worse than this blog so i think it needs an update and some content.

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Comments (2) September 17, 2009 4:09 am