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Back to Business
Submitted by Thirtysixway on Tue, 05/12/2009 - 9:53pm
For the past 4 weeks or so, we've been having some major work done on the pipes under our basement floor. To make a long story short, here are the main points of what happened:
- Water has backed up into the basement for as long as I've been alive.
- Plumbers said the drain pipes had to be replaced
- Everything had to be packed up and moved out of the basement
- The tile had to be ripped up, and it had aspestoes so that = bad
Some Jackhammering, cement pouring, drying and tiling later I got my basement back. So now that my computer, server, tv, and other goodies are hooked up I can get back to coding and some of my projects. I want to get some Drupal modules done, as well as work on my.esoTalk.
Also, I'm slowly starting to put together a portfolio of my web development work. I'll put that up when I feel it's a positive representation of some of my work.
New Layout
Submitted by Thirtysixway on Sat, 04/25/2009 - 5:14pm
I put up the new layout for noobbox. It looks a lot better (in my opinion.) There are a couple of things I want to fix, some of the links to the left are hard to read and the Search button at the top is cut off a bit. But tell me what you think of the new look.
Soon I'll be changing or adding a page to display my portfolio of work and projects I've done online.
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Downtime and Updates
Submitted by Thirtysixway on Wed, 04/22/2009 - 10:07pm
Sorry about the site being offline for the past 2 hours. I was doing some work, and I thought that the site came off of maintenance mode but aparently it didn't. 
I'm looking at using a different theme for the site. I like the current theme, but the new one I'm looking at is brighter and more fun. It will be changed in the next couple of days. Also, I've enabled commenting for anonmyous users (with captcha, of course.) So now you don't have to register for an account to post comments.
Oh and Ubuntu 9.04 comes out tomorrow and I can't download it because my computer is packed away for a week. But you should download it, it's supposed to be faster than 8.10.
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Linux Today and Web Site Errors
Submitted by Thirtysixway on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 11:43am
I found out I was linked to from http://linuxtoday.com which explains my crazy traffic spike on Tuesday. Pretty exciting 
On another note, yesterday some of you may have seen a giant red box with a bunch of error messages inside. This was an issue with the mysql server. Sorry for that, and it should be all fixed now.
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Downloads and Activity Streams
Submitted by Thirtysixway on Thu, 01/08/2009 - 12:04am
Just a quick update, I've redone the Downloads page so that it is integrated with noobbox instead of being its own system (thanks to the Views module.)
Update: I took the activity stream off because I didn't want them to appear in the search engine.
Moving to Drupal
Submitted by Thirtysixway on Fri, 10/24/2008 - 1:00pm
I recently moved my Web site (noobbox.com) over to the Drupal Content Management System. This won't mean much to anyone who just browses the web, but to site owners, a CMS can be a life saver.
Recently I was working on a Web site for somebody and they needed a way to allow multiple users to upload pictures. Being the idiot I am, I started writing one from scratch. There is an incredible number of things to take into consideration from password recovery to permissions and the possibility of needing to extend/add features. I started looking at Drupal because in Web Team, we're migrating the district's Web sites over to Drupal.
What a nice system. It has everything you need, and it's modular which means anybody can develop add-ons for it. One thing that takes a little work is moving existing templates/layouts over to being a Drupal theme. If you take a look at my site, you'll see that some things are still a little whacky (I'm having issues with the breadcrumbs div) but overall it's much easier to maintain my site as well as log information about my visitors.
The only thing that Drupal could use (and I mean this as a module, so you developers out there may want to look at this) is a Download manager. I need a section of my site to have categories, files with descriptions and download counter, password-protection per-file option, with upload and mirror capabilities. I couldn't find one so right now I'm using Olate Download.
So if you're looking for a way to manage your Web site without having to type in HTML or PHP constantly, I'd suggest using a CMS like Drupal, Joomla!, Xoops or PHPNuke.
New Webhosting Provider
Submitted by Thirtysixway on Fri, 08/01/2008 - 1:00pm
For a long time now I've been running my websites from a server I setup in my basement ( running Ubuntu of course ;] ). The positive to it was hell, I had my own dedicated server with full physical access to it and full administrative control over. The negative to it was that it ate a lot of bandwidth, and some things were loading a bit slow. So I moved to paid hosting.
I decided to go with Cirtexhosting.com. I was with them before I got the server, they have great customer support and a ton of features. The only thing I don't like is the new version of Cpanel, but I'll get over it. So yeah if you're looking for hosting, go with them.
Hopefully you see a faster load time, and I should have my site setup and running soon (it's been showing a boring project page for a while now).
