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New RHEL/CentOS Install Notes for Aegir Hosting System

Posted Sat, 05/08/2010 - 10:14 by Matthew Young

Needing to use RHEL on a project forced me to write up these docs, as I spent days and days (even with druroot already having done CENTOS install months and months before) trying to get the install script to work. After many tries and just starting with CentOS on Rackspace Cloud (pretty standard stuff) I found that this was now the best way to go with all the recent changes and lack of consistent documentation on Aegir on CentOS/RHEL w/ the newest Drush and Drush_make changes.

I had pointed my domain name at mediatemple vps, so I simply setup an A record there to point to my Rackspace Instances IP. (If you have not checked out rackspace cloud vs. Amazon's "interesting" offerings you seriously should.) Then I went and added DNS entry on Rackspace clouds DNS tab. So I setup the hostname on the instance (ssh in) like:

Best Project Management Tool for the Job

Posted Tue, 05/04/2010 - 12:03 by Matthew Young

Alot of us pro devs out there hate Basecamp, and most of the time it's for good reason. But more and more I am finding that the free version of it may be better than the free version of Fogbugz... depending on the scenerio.

I'll list out what I have found to be the major players in the arena of Drupal Development:
Fogbugz
Lighthouseapp
Basecamp

TBC

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Learned a lot at Qualcomm this week, you have to watch what is going on internally...

Posted Tue, 02/16/2010 - 20:44 by Matthew Young

Watch the video, you'll see, siiick.

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Showmyadventure.com Launched

Posted Mon, 01/04/2010 - 03:57 by Matthew Young

Just launched showmyadventure.com, it's Drupal based of course, with the Services module pushing the video upload and pass off to VMIX for encoding and back through and display w/ Flash.

We have launched version 2.4, and here is the summary of additions and changes:

Posted Fri, 12/25/2009 - 11:34 by Matthew Young

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RELEASE 2.4 shipped on 2009-12-22
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Planet Illogica (Pi): Sprint 2.4

542: STORY: Rename the Pi Marketplace to "Shop"

[#1004] The Pi Marketplace has been renamed to Shop anywhere that
the word appeared in URLs, titles, breadcrumbs, navigation links,
pages, emailed receipts, Views, etc.

584: STORY: Rename "blogs" to "posts"

[#1006B] The Blog has been re-titled as 'Post' anywhere that it

An interesting client request created delimna using Ubercart, USPS & FedEX

Posted Tue, 12/15/2009 - 19:52 by Matthew Young

A very important client of ours requested that USPS be used when under 70 lbs (as their limits are really 70-75 lbs) and at that point the FedEX module be used then and only then (Above 70 lbs - as their limits are really HIGH and not necessarily "pinpointable"...) After a max is reached a message would be displayed to tell the prospective client to call in and no quotes be displayed. With workflow-ng it sounds simple enough right? Not even close...

PLANETILLOGICA LAUNCHING RELEASE 1.9!!!

Posted Tue, 09/15/2009 - 22:09 by Matthew Young

Features Implemented:

<strong>Portfolio Player</strong> > Full Screen Mode : prepare video players to support full-screen presentation mode

Edit Account Settings > Change Password : Alert message that gives advice on message needs styling if possible.

Add and configure SSL cert on *.planetillogica.com

Alliances > Pagination Limits : Please set: + Requests (25) - Newest to Oldest + Following (45) - Alphabetical +

Alliances (50) sort - Alphabetical

Bugs Squashed:

+ Fixed - Commenting on a protfolio takes you to a weird screen in the lightbox

PLANETILLOGICA LAUNCHING RELEASE 1.8!!!

Posted Wed, 08/26/2009 - 21:55 by Matthew Young

Again... Planet Illogica release. Bugfixes Galore. Congrats to Aimee, Alex, Jeromy, Tracy, Russell, Desmond, Travis, Craig, Matt, Andrew, Andy, Jamaica, Mark, Shane and of course Myself.

FEATURES:
AIR Artists : require registration to see (non-public) profiles

Messages / Request Alliances / Follow : anon users are not allowed to use these

Portfolio : allow anon users to view Public users' portfolios

My Website : allow users to choose whether to make their profile viewable by
Community only (default setting) or by Public as well

PLANETILLOGICA LAUNCHING RELEASE 1.7!!!

Posted Fri, 08/21/2009 - 19:53 by Matthew Young

Planet Illogica release. Bugfixes Galore. Congrats to Aimee, Alex, Jeromy, Tracy, Russell, Desmond, Travis, Craig, Matt, Andrew, Andy, Jamaica, Mark, Shane and of course Myself.

+ Time fixed in Blog Posts
+ Fixed Anonymous User as high uid
+ Fixed bugs in Windows Vista and Safari as far as display in Portfolio Builder
+ Fixed Daily Feed
+ Followers : System reporting following instead of followers number
+ Fixed My Website > Username in left corner > IE7.0 top/bottom getting cut off
+ Fixed Buttons have text over them : example from creative background or image upload

Planetillogica launching Release 1.6!!!

Posted Mon, 08/03/2009 - 19:22 by Matthew Young

Today has been going great as team is working hard on updating and deploying enhancements and new features for Planet Illogica. Some of the new features and enhancements are as follows.

+ Resolved captcha issue (authentication test that differentiates between a human or a computer). If you enter an incorrect answer to the math question during initial registration, you now have the chance to correct it instead of being locked out of the process.

+ Improved search function to sort users based on a hierarchy of members, events and blog entries.

Media Temple DV 3.5 - CentOS 5: Eaccelerator Installation

Posted Sun, 06/14/2009 - 15:08 by Matthew Young

eaccellerator is a free open-source PHP accelerator, optimizer, and dynamic content cache. It typically reduces server load and increases the speed of your PHP code by 1-10 times.

Login as Root Through SSH, and stay in your home directory which for root should be just /root/ .

yum install php-devel

yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'

Get the file.

Solution to the IE 30 Styles issue in Drupal 6!

Posted Sat, 05/09/2009 - 15:50 by Matthew Young

<a href="http://drupal.org/project/unlimited_css" title="http://drupal.org/project/unlimited_css">http://drupal.org/project/unlimited_css</a>

This module solves the age old problem CSS problem with IE. The only thing missing is a d5 version, fingers crossed...

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Thanks Dylan Wilder of Open Sourcery (opensourcery.com)

Posted Fri, 03/27/2009 - 10:44 by Matthew Young

Dylan was kind enough to write me back and describe some issues with this spankin' brand new site... He had read my previous article on Media Temple DV 3.5 and setting up fast cgi which was a mash up of mine and others work and experiences:

Yoo Theme Contest Entry... for Joomla's new CCK like Component

Posted Mon, 03/23/2009 - 12:13 by Matthew Young

I entered this photo in their contest here: <a href="http://www.yootheme.com/blog/item/root/i-love-yoo" title="http://www.yootheme.com/blog/item/root/i-love-yoo">http://www.yootheme.com/blog/item/root/i-love-yoo</a>

Switch Users in Drupal Without Logging Out for Development

Posted Mon, 03/16/2009 - 10:35 by Matthew Young

Many may know one way to do so, but is that one way the right way? Thought I would list out the ways here.

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Setup fastcgi on Media Temple DV for real (w/ extra troubleshooting tips... including dealing w/ fastcgi on MT w/ Drupal.)

Posted Sat, 03/14/2009 - 23:38 by Matthew Young

While the (dv) 3.5 machines come with PHP5 and FastCGI by default, PHP is still setup to run as an Apache module rather than as a fcgi process.

Check Out Obj-A on your iPhone!

Posted Fri, 03/06/2009 - 18:15 by Matthew Young

Just used iUI on this site.

iUI is a JavaScript and CSS package for developing WebApps for the iPhone: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/iui/wiki/Introduction" title="http://code.google.com/p/iui/wiki/Introduction">http://code.google.com/p/iui/wiki/Introduction</a>

Super cool, and Drupal keeps track of all the activity for you. I'll be adding more features to this for sure!

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Drupal + Ubercart = Simple Shopping Cart

Posted Sun, 02/15/2009 - 00:36 by Matthew Young

“I need a simple shopping cart” is a simple yet complicated demand that hear often from many of my clients. “Simple, just need to be able to sell a couple of products on my website.” If only they knew how difficult such a “simple” thing can be. What to do? Setup Zencart? OS Commerce? Just build my own from scratch? Having just a simple shopping cart can be quite the task for a developer when a business has such a demand, yet such a small budget. I have been battling this dilemma for over 2 years now.

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