Missing in Action?

I have not been posting to my Blog here much lately. I seem to spend more time over on Facebook. I am going to try and get back to posting here at least somewhat regularly. I have been busy with work and training for the San Diego 3 Day. In exactly 56 Days from today I will be in San Diego for Day 1 of the 3 Day there. I am really looking forward to it. I have some more training to do yet but I am getting there. I walked 9 miles twice this week and am going to try to fit in 12-15 Saturday or Sunday this weekend.

Good Web Support

This morning I was having some problems with getting to my website. I opened a support ticket with Future Hosting and within 10 minutes I had a reply from them explaining the situation. I have been with Future Hosting since January and have yet to have a bad experience with them. I have asked questions and received prompt answers, and asked for things to be installed and it has been done quickly.

Team Dinner

Went to Chicago last night to have Dinner with my 3 Day team even though I am not walking this weekend. It was great seeing everyone. We had a much smaller group this year but still had a nice time.

Extreme Pogo Stick

Last weekend at a family get together, one of the younger members of the family was showing off his Extreme Pogo Stick Skills. He has a professional Pogo Stick that he can use a air pump to adjust the stiffness of the sick to account for different environments. He can get better than 6 feet high when bouncing and can do both forward and backward flips on it. The picture is of my daughter on the pogo stick at rest.

First Training Walk

I finally got out and started training for the San Diego 3 Day. It was a short 3.5 Mile walk but at least it got me out and got things stretched out. The weather is finally decent and I needed to get out since we are just under 200 days now. I will probably do another couple short walks before kicking it up to 5 miles for a short time.

iBlogger and Drupal

One of the concerns that I had when I was planning the conversion of my blog to drupal was the ability to post to my blog from my phone. I had found a utility that allowed me to to that under Wordpress and I wanted that with Drupal also. I found iBlogger and so far it is working out better than I had expected. Maybe I will post more often now.

New Blog Platform

You might notice the blog page looks kind of plain right now. I decided to get rid of the Wordpress software that I had been using and convert to Drupal. Drupal is the content management system that I have been working with. I have converted my blog entries but have not themed the site yet but it should look better within a week or so.

 

Good Drupal Resource

In my search to learn more about Drupal I have run across some pretty good podcasts that help users learn how to take advantage of this great content management system.  One of the ones that I have been going through recently is a Video podcast from Mustard Seed Media.  This is done by one of the guys from Geeks and God and I really like it.  He does short Video podcasts that show you how to work with drupal from a designer perspective and I am finding them very useful.

New Web Development Tool - MAMP

For the last couple of years I have been doing all my Web development and testing using a Linux Virtual Machine that allowed me to setup a development image that was close to what my actual production environement was.  This worked pretty good but I probably wasted quite a bit of time building the system and installing all the write tools.  I found a new tool for my Mac called MAMP that is going to mean I won't have to waste that time in the future.  This MAMP program installs the Apache, MySQL, and PHP environements on my Mac and the Pro version includes some tools to allow me plenty of control over virtual hosts, mysql databases, and the apache modules that are loaded.  I wish had found this months ago.  I have been testing this for a couple days now and it works great.  The sites load and work locally just as they do on their hosts and I no longer have to keep Fusion running with a Linux VM all the time. The Pro Version is $58 and well worth the money in my opinion.

 

Happy New Year

Well a new year is here and with it comes hope that 2009 will be better than 2008. I pray that each of you has a blessed 2009.