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Website CMS’

So today I ended up spending pretty much the entire day taking our department website and stuffing it into a web CMS (Content Management System), specifically phpWebSite.

The existing site is a series of individual webpages I created using DreamWeaver MX (6.1) and a custom template. I think it looks pretty good. DW templates make maintainng the look and feel of a website much easier. Using a CMS makes it even easier.

The whole process went pretty smoothly. Looks reasonably good too. Now I just have to figure out how to create custom themes for phpWebSite. I already have our intradepartment website running on phpWebSite, and I figured using it for the public site would make it easier on me to update and maintain.

The downside of it is that my dynamically generated pages won’t work inside the CMS. I’ll have to find a workaround for that.

Haven’t released it yet since I’m still playing, testing and tweaking. I hope to have it all ready soon.

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For sale: Visor bits

Two broken Visors means lots of spare bits lying around. Anybody wanna buy my stuff?

  • Handspring Visor USB cradle (Black) – $10
  • Handspring Visor Serial cradle (Ice) – $10
  • Handspring Visor Edge USB charging cradle – $10
  • SmartMedia Memplug Springboard module – $15
  • Handspring Visor Platinum – Used, case shows some wear. Digitizer is messed up, but could probably be fixed with a replacement screen. Button board recently replaced. Comes with or without a broken in Vaja case (missing belt clip) – $40
  • Handspring Visor Edge – Broken screen, but can be scavenged for parts. – $40

I think I may even have a few extra Styli for the Platinum that I can throw in.

Prices negotiable. All items will be shipped USPS Priority Mail upon receipt of payment. Payment via Paypal accepted. Email or leave a comment if interested.

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Ooops. Duh.

Ok, just give me a big dopeslap. Accidentally deleted my weblog directory while cleaning out some stuff.

Thank goodness for backups and MT. Weblog was restored by doing a simple rebuild from MT, and image files were recovered from backups.

whew

Let me know if you spot anything that’s broken.

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5 years on the job

Yesterday marked my 5th year working here. It’s the longest I’ve ever worked at a single place in my short career. I have to say, it’s been a very pleasant 5 years. I think I’ve accomplished a good deal, although probably not as much as I should have or would have liked. My wife says I shoud make up a 5 year plan for the next 5 years. And earlier this year my boss asked me what I planned to accomplish this year.

Tough thing to do for someone who generally doesn’t plan anything more than 10 minutes in advance.

At the start of 2004, I listed some of the things I hoped to get accomplished this year. At the rate things are going, I don’t know how much research I’ll be able to get done or published this year. Maybe that should be part of my 5 year plan.

Definitely on track with the other items though. Haven’t really done much with spiffing up the weblog though.

I’ll have to think about this 5 year plan thing and come up with something.

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Storing binary data in MySQL

Just a post to remind me of how to do this stuff so I don’t have to go searching for it again

Uploading binary files to MySQL

MySQL BLOBs