http://davidwindham.net on all kinds of various stuff Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:23:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've got to say and I think most folks would too, that I actually enjoy watching the keynote presentations from Apple and Steve Jobs. So here's the lowdown... of course the anticipated Iphone 3G was announced and it goes up for sale on the 11th for a lower price at ... http://davidwindham.net/wwdc-2008/ All this talk of politics has affected my netflix lineup. Last night we watched the documentary "Man from Plains" about Jimmy Carter and his most recent book. I've got to say that Jonathan Demme is one of the better filmmakers of our time. Ever since Stop Making ... http://davidwindham.net/man-from-plains/ I check the Google Zeitgeist every so often to see what's going on out there and this morning I noticed that KidZui was on fire. So I checked it out by downloading the app, installing it and testing. I can see where this is absolutely essential for parents. ... http://davidwindham.net/kidzui/ I've spent some time today dissecting Drupal 6 themes. I've had a bitter taste in my mouth for Joomla and Drupal since way back when I didn't have as much knowledge as I do now. But I'll say that Drupal 6 has a theming system that is far above ... http://davidwindham.net/drupal-6-theming/ Why has it been a month since i've published anything new? 1) I will no longer be accepting freelance assignments with limited exceptions. 2) We are moving to the Aiken, Edgefield, Augusta Area. 3) I am going to work with Morris Communications. Here's the scoop... I have lived in Charleston for ... http://davidwindham.net/slice-of-paradise/ Excuse the mess, I'm working on the site design today. It's been a really long week with a bunch of cool things going on that I'll let you in on later. We had breakfast this morning at the diner and then later this afternoon it's the McClellanville, Lowcountry ... http://davidwindham.net/maintenance-mode/ While the supposed grand ole days of helpful and responsive use net forums went by before i even opened a script on a computer.. what's evolved of so called social networking is seemingly working it's way with dynamic apps into programming circles which makes sense considering it really began there ... http://davidwindham.net/social-programming/ I took the afternoon off this afternoon as i was a bit worn out hunching over a bunch of sites, code, and monitors today. I put a chair outside to enjoy the sun and get rid of some of my programmer's tan... and I managed to read Hermann Hesse' ... http://davidwindham.net/siddhartha/ (this site over the last 30 days) Google Analytics released a beta version of something they call benchmarking... it's good. I hear all the time.. my site got x number of hits, and i say to myself.."what kind of hits" because what most people don't understand is that a lot ... http://davidwindham.net/benchmarking-beta/ Python 2.5.2, Postgres 8.3.1, and Django .96 i've been playing around again with python today... i went ahead and upgraded my postgresql and python on my machine... nothing too tough, although i spent an hour going in loops until i realize that the some of the python scripts were not in ... http://davidwindham.net/postgres-python-update/ I think i can endorse it...i'm certainly not an accountant or tax expert, but i like knowing exactly how it works vs. paying someone so i don't have to think about it. i have very little expenses and most of my work is freelance (services) with only some ... http://davidwindham.net/turbo-tax/ gotta love it.. i was dragging this morning.. opened my email at 6:30am and sure enough there was my high school prom picture (thats me in on the far left with the strange expression) staring me in the face some 15 years later. (how about this one - ... http://davidwindham.net/facebook/ The latest stable release of WordPress (Version 2.5) is now available. WordPress.com hosts 2.7 million WordPress blogs...and in honor of that i put up my own little space on wordpress. Let's put wordpress into perspective for those of you who don't understand cms (content managment systems), databases, blogs ... http://davidwindham.net/wp-25/ To wrap up the week before Ginny and I have to run down to Savannah for a wedding I'll drop another case study on you. Jeff Dail is a great guy with a house full of young'ns.. even though he is originally from North Carolina (we won't hold that ... http://davidwindham.net/jeff-sells-charleston/ this is a recent conversation with my neighbor dan wheeler. (me) "hey dirty, why are those chicken bones hanging on your fishing lures?" (dan) "those aren't chicken bones... they're alligator snapping turtle bones... you missed one hell of a stew" (me) "why are they hanging on your fishing lures?" ... http://davidwindham.net/fishing-lures/ easter humor... ...and today i put up a moodle site on a server for testing and customizing... and i've decided to try my hand at writing a flash based graphing plugin as my good deed for easter.. Moodle is a free software e-learning platform (also known as a Course Management System (CMS), ... http://davidwindham.net/easter/ on a recent project.. i ran into some font troubles and learned some stuff along the way.. i've heard it again and again from various computer users... and on this particular project ...when i was handed the eps files to convert to adobe flash files... there was a note that ... http://davidwindham.net/fonts/ let's face it.. that computer screen you watching as you read this post and it's parent network of millions of servers are full of junk and in many ways not to different than our old idiot tube. It's all in how you use it that makes it different... and ... http://davidwindham.net/advertising-and-the-idiot-box/ Fudgy Brabham, the broker in Charge of Harbourtowne and Trident Real Estate is celebrating thirty years this year. Fudgy and I have mulled over the impact of the internet to real estate in the last three years. I met Fudgy through my father four years ... http://davidwindham.net/harbourtowne-30th-anniversary/ Jerry Moran is a photographer in New Orleans that i had met while in a gallery there. He takes a lot of images of musicians from in and around norleans. he contacted me after we had left new orleans because he was in need a of new website and ... http://davidwindham.net/native-orleanian/ nginx (i'm guessing it's pronounced "engine x") usage on websites worldwide went up 800% from 07 as compared to January 08 according to netcraft.. apache still dominates in hosting, but i'm convinced that microsoft's portion will go down (even though the usage seems to still be trending up)... and ... http://davidwindham.net/nginx/ Over the last three years working with the web, designers, and developers (interactive agencies or what ever you want to call yourself....i've made mental notes on some of the best web development and design firms in South Carolina and some of the best practices of those developers or agencies (as ... http://davidwindham.net/web-design-sc/ i'll be... ginny got me a really cool shirt since i have expressed on a number of occasions that 'lush life' by john coltrane would be my favorite album of all time if i had one. Anyway.. i opened the mail today and i saw.. 1286 Filmore, San Francisco ... http://davidwindham.net/saint-john-coltrane/