It will be released within a week! It will mostly be a directory of all the site in the BooZker Network. This includes everything from portfolio sites to web applications like Deploy*.
It also is the central hub for all updates of other sites and this blog will probably be obsolete. I might end up transferring all the SQL data over there, or at least the network related posts.
Go to Boozker.com and bookmark it and check back in a week!
Finally after months of work I finished Deploy*. Comes preloaded with CSS resets, XHTML Strict/Transitional, jQuery library (uncompressed, minified, and packed), and these five jQuery plugins:
If you would like anymore just shoot me an email. They are very easy to implement. Also, if you find any bugs, typos, or anything let me know!
Deploy* can be found at ProjectDeploy.org
I had this problem after purchasing MacJournal 5 from the MacUpdate bundle. The program looked great and had everything I wanted for a blogging application as well as a digital notebook. When I tried to add my blog however, it wouldn’t work. [skip to bottom for the the easy steps or read the blog for the story.]
Everything I tried had failed. I contacted the developer and we went through lots of testing and shooting emails back and fourth with new ideas. I was about to give up hope when Dan, the creator of MacJournal, asked me to record the network http requests it’s sending out through Terminal.app. I did so and read the XML it generated. It said that the transfer was exhausted. I thought that was odd so I checked my servers error logs and found out that the Wordpress script was failing on a specific Wordpress line each time. When i went through the PHP code I noticed it was failing at the point of upload.
I couldn’t think of how to fix it when, bang, it hit me.
For you non-programmers, for safety reasons php restricts the size of the file you can upload, and how long you have to upload that file. It sets these settings in the php.ini file.
So here is how to fix this fluke.
max_execution_time = 30 ;
max_input_time = 600 ;
memory_limit = 20M ;
Make sure your settings are not commented out altogether by checking if there is a ; in front of each of those settings above. It should look exactly like that. Now save!
Now you are all set. It should be working. If not, check your MacJournal set up. This is the set up you will need, of course, replace blogurl with your website.
In Manual set up you should have something like this:
Name: Blog Name Here
Type: Moveable Type
URL: http://blogurl.com/
POST URL: http://blogurl.com/xmlrpc.php
User: Username
Blog ID: 1
Deploy* has been coming along quite nicely and should be ready for a final release by the end of the month. I have been taking feature suggestions and bug requests frequently. With this launch I am going to try to launch boozker.com which will have all of The BooZker Network websites and projects.
Deploy* has been totally redesigned, but kept the same framework.
Major features added since 0.9.5:
Bug fixes since 0.9.5:
Planned Features for version 1.0
Future Features
More information will be available in a week. As always, if you want a feature in this version, or an upcoming one please send them to me now. Bug reports can be filed through email as well.
I have finally released Deploy* today. You can find it at http://oscargodson.com/deploy until its reached a final release. Once it reaches version 1.0 I’ll put a link on my web site or give it it’s own domain name.
So what is Deploy*?
From the Deploy* tool’s documentation:
Deploy* is a free, open source, online tool which allows users to quickly deploy a web project folder in only a couple seconds.
It offers a couple unique features from other project folder downloads such as customization, valid XHTML, HTML, and CSS, but the most unique is bookmarking.
Deploy*’s bookmarking feature allows the user to go through the form only one time and then bookmarking the next page (deploy.php). When the user returns to that bookmark it instantly generates another .zip folder with all the settings the user had previously entered.
If you have a Mac you could add that bookmark to your dock and it’s only a click away. Windows and Linux users could also add the bookmark to their desktop and it will always be right there waiting.
Info on creating the bookmarks on the desktop and dock* (Mac users only) is coming soon!
I have done it all from scratch (except the jQuery stuff!). From a technical stand point, Deploy* takes the users form and, based on that form, creates a folder called deploy_xxx123, grabs files from a files directory puts it in that previous folder, creates new directories such as css, js, images, etc and also creates a HTML or XHTML file based on what was chosen and when all that is done zips it and names it deploy.zip.
Download the source code if you are interested.
As of now, V0.9.5 all browsers are supported, however, IE6, IE7, and Opera are having some small CSS and JavaScript issues that will be worked out by version 1.0.
I did it! In only two years I am the youngest ever in the Graphic Design program also! Before I turned 18 I got my AAS in Graphic Design. Actually I have been doing a lot of research on jQuery which my oscargodson.com site has been programmed in.
What about this prank though? Well, first I want to say my own personal beliefs on the college idea and then you will understand why I did it. I just want to say that I personally don’t think degrees should ever be given out, grades never taken, and never any diplomas printed. Why you ask?!
You should be going to college to learn, get an education, do something with your life with this new knowledge you have gained. However, when I was there it seemed like there were so many people that were going to get checks from the state. More than I would have ever guessed. College seems to be joke to me. When I went there I went there to learn and my instructors taught me things that I would have never been able to teach myself. I thank them because they work hard and don’t get paid like shit while people throwing basketballs through hoops make enough money to own million dollar houses and pay for nannies for the 100 kids they have. To make my point of how useless the entire graduation thing is I got a friend to pull this off.
We arrived at MHCC less than 15 mins before all the graduation materials were not for sale anymore. We rushed in there and got my friend everything he needed. The lady tells us congrats and we walk back to my car so I can get on my graduation stuff. We put it all on and walk over to the place where we all line up and get ready for the ceremony. There we fill out our paper work where we put our name and degree type, I mean, why would they have an actual list of the graduates and go off that?! That would mean that each peson would be recognized and that makes no sense right?
My friend didn’t even know what he wanted a degree in so he walks over there and says “I’m graduating college and I am confused. I’m getting a degree in like criminal justice what should I put for degree type?” She goes “I don’t know just put AAOT.” He puts it down and we get in line.
There, everything was in place. We walk down and wave to everyone. We wait and they go row by row. They get to us and we walk up there and they read the card, I go first, “Oscar Godson, Graphic Design” then I’m shaking the ladies hand and I hear my friends name “J*** *****tt” I laugh and keep walking back to my seat. Just like that he got everything I got that took me two years to get. For that moment he had just as much respect I did. He has been there no more than two hours and that easily did this.
I think college should be about personal education. Personal knowledge is more powerful than what other people think you know. There were people in my class that I could not believe were graduating. They probably had half a brain if that and they were getting a diploma. What does a diploma mean than? You paid for 2 years of college and did the minimal possible amount of work? Don’t get me wrong, I am part of Phi Theta Kappa, presidential honors each time, got two scholarships, and graduated with a 3.8 GPA with 3, 4.0 terms. I think you should strive to be the best you can be, but this whole degree thing is meaningless to me. Maybe someone can explain?
Well, they rock to me because I made them. I hope you all will check them out. Until I can get this blog really redesigned and integrated into my new website design (which none of you have seen yet!) I will post on here more regularly. Right now I’m in the process of totally redesigning this site and getting iEatCorn.com going.
Check em’ out and dig any if you likey!
I have been a huge fan of freemacware.com for quite some time. I used to suggest it to all my friends, colleagues, and even family because it really did have this huge assortment of freeware for the Mac. I found just about everything I needed there. Recently however a new app came into my Mail RSS inbox. BBEdit which I wasn’t quite sure could pass for free. I knew about this app long ago and it has never, ever been free. They have always had trials however.
I sent them an email awhile ago having a crazy notion of them replying in a fashionable time frame. I was mistaken, again. They have yet to reply to my email and it has been a week.
Maybe this was a one time accident? In a matter of days, two actually, they had new software which I was interested in. As always I went to the developers site to read more about the application. I was extremely surprised to see that just a couple days after the BBEdit “mistake” they had made another “accident”. Pomoto was the software and if you go to their site you can clearly see on the right hand side that its a $3 a month or $30 a year. Not only do you need the service to upload the images using Pomoto, you need the software right? Unfortunately, that is not free either. The software has a 15 day trial with a 50 picture upload limit.
I think software developers should set any price whatsoever on their software, but is Bare Bones and Pomoto just trying to get some free trial downloads hoping for some to buy or is FreeMacWare changing into ShareMacWare because they are lazy or have some sort of advertising deal?
I sent an email to both Bare Bones and Pomoto today, and I will update you all on the response.
Within hours of sending an email to Pomoto I got a response. His response was,
I appreciate your concern and would like to express our deep support of keeping commercial software developers honest.
In this case, I was not aware of FreeMacWare and can guarantee that we had nothing to do with Pomoto being posted there. The only freeware/shareware sites to which we’ve submitted Pomoto are VersionTracker, MacUpdate and iUseThis.
I also didn’t realize this, but he went and noticed these other not-so-free “freeware” Those of which were
BBEdit contacted me a few hours later (Wow, so now so far, only freemacware has yet to reply to a couple emails I sent at least a week ago now.) Their response was closely the similar
I’m not familiar with the site you mention, but they’re either quite confused
or being purposely misleading since BBEdit certainly is not free.
So what is the reason? I think it’s simply one of these two:
Here is a magic trick I am waiting to be published. Check out this video until then! It will, hopefully, be published on http://magichat.co.uk . I have had one other published on the site, but it was a beginner trick I created and I wanted to ramp it up!
Sorry for the downtime! It was only a few hours during the dead of night, so many of you probably wouldn’t have known. I switched my domain name over from Trap 17 DNS servers to my new servers at Host Monster ($5.95 a month for 600GB and 6,000GB of BW!) and I changed my registrar from GoDaddy to here and while that all was happening the blog was being switched as well. If you saw the default WordPress skin that is why. Should all be fixed up now though. Tell me if you see anything strange.