I haven’t posted much, or even been watching Twitter, for the last couple of weeks. I’ve been busy. Hopefully, in the next few days, I’ll be posting about new site launches. I’m quiet, but not gone — got my head down getting stuff done for clients.
I’m very excited to announce the launch of a new client website at www.southernhand.com
Southern Hand Centers provides hand and upper extremity rehabilitation services through their 7 locations in Tennessee and Mississipi. This is the client’s first appearance on the web, and provides basic information about their services, staff, and locations.
Built on the Joomla 1.5.15 platform, this site uses the following plugins:
In case you missed it, watch the Apple iPad product announcement here.
I just saw on Facebook that PBS has created a widget (below) to help website managers and social media users to promote donating to Haiti relief.
Back in mid-December, I started thinking seriously about upgrading my cellphone from the Blackberry 8073e to … something else.
I’ve had a company-issued iPhone for a year or so, and it is cool, no doubt. But the AT&T service in my home doesn’t work — the signal is too weak for some reason. So switching to AT&T isn’t an option for me.
Sticking with my existing carrier, Sprint, my main contenders then became the HTC Hero and Blackberry Tour. Both looked like worthy smartphone upgrades. I had used the Blackberry OS for years, and knew what to expect there. But this hot, new Google OS, Android, has some buzz. And since I’m a heavy Google Apps user, the idea of automatically syncing with all the data and e-mail I have on Google already seemed like a dream.
After several weeks of mulling my options, I took the plunge and got a HTC Hero.
After living with the Hero for two days, I have to say I like the new phone quite a lot. I’m happily surprised that most of the apps I used heavily on the iPhone are also available on Android, and if an app isn’t available then there is something very similar or even better out there. (One app that I like a lot on the iPhone is the New York Times app, but on Android there is a USA Today app that is just fantastic!)
I do wish the Hero screen was larger. The phone feels good in the hand, and everything looks just beautiful. But this phone is less capable as a reader than the iPhone is. Otherwise, the HTC Hero is a real win.
The Rachel Maddow Show has posted this list of charitable organizations accepting donations for relief in Haiti.
In related news, Mashable announces, “With Mobile Giving To Haiti Passing $20 Million, Text Fundraising Comes Of Age“
The singularity is near (I hope!).
…that song could be a hit.”
Ladies and gentlemen, Neil Young…
The current version of ChronoContact for Joomla 1.5 has a serious bug.
Once installed, the Forms Management tab in ChronoContact will display a white page preventing you from managing forms in the component.
jalal reported the issue on the Chronoengine forums, along with the solution he discovered on his own.
Re: Forms Management link not working
Postby jalal » Tue Dec 29, 2009 2:17 pmOK, I’ve sort of fixed it for now.
I commented out line 37 in admin.chronocontact.html.php (which pops up the tooltip) and things work correctly now. More specifically, it is line 4820 in the same file that is causing the segmentation fault (“$rssDoc =& JFactory::getXMLparser(‘RSS’, $options);”).
If I get a moment I’ll see if I can figure out more, but the above gets things working for me.
cheers
Re: Forms Management link not working
Postby GreyHead » Tue Dec 29, 2009 2:46 pmHi jalal,
Ah OK it’s probably the “Daily Hints” — I’d forgotten about that problem. You can disable them from the Parameters Icon in the toolbar now that you can get into the Forms Manager.
Bob
Here’s hoping they remove this “feature” before releasing the final version…
