Nouns, verbs… a general abuse of words
Sep 24 2008
Made some minor adjustments to the Joomla -> Wordpress Conversion tool and tested against Wordpress 2.6.x
I have also come to the conclusion that I need to start pulling myself out of the projects and write some more up here. More on that later…. Maybe.
Jun 19 2008
In working with a recent client project, I was tasked with porting a site from Joomla over to Wordpress 2.5.x. My first instinct is to look at the table structures, write the sql and be done with it but in the sake of saving time, I did a quick search to see what other people have done in this respect.
In my search, I found that Rodney Blevins (www.blevins.nl/missiontech) created a wizard to do the same thing for a Mambo to Wordpress conversion. The script works fine on older versions of Wordpress but with the release of Wordpress 2.5, the table structure changed. With some minor tweaking, I made the script work for the later releases of Wordpress and added a simple sprintf to do the table prefix renames for the Mambo/Joomla tables.
I don’t doubt that I’ll need it again and can only assume that someone else will as well so enjoy. It is not without room for improvement but it will get you own your way.
** I have tested this on a few different scenerios but you should use at your own risk (as low as it is) and backup everything in your wordpress install before doing this!
If you don’t know how to do this, have someone to help you.
May 24 2008
While I thought the movie adaptation of I Am Legend with Will Smith was ok, I would have probably benefited more by not having read the book before seeing it. It strayed WAY away from the parts of the book I found most interesting and relied more upon special effects than the core story. While the alternate ending that was made available on the DVD release of the movie was more satisfying than the one in the theatrical release, it still lacking.
I found out that there were a few more movie versions of the book with the most interesting being that of The Last Man on Earth from 1964 staring Vincent Price. I, could not find it in the local video stores (big surprise) but the excellent Archive.org has it up and streaming and for download.
I just watched it and agree that this one was far superior to the new one based on the fact that it let the core story drive it instead of letting the special effects rule it
Enjoy and if you want to download it in a higher quality format, just go here.
Mar 20 2008
Currently installed Firefox extensions. Just dumping for my own good as I start digging into the new beta.
Continue reading “My Firefox Extensions dump from the work machine”
Mar 01 2008
A while back we had a discussion @ FreakScene.net about the fantastic documentary 1991: The Year Punk Broke. The film by Dave Markey featured many of the brilliant artists that made the soundtracks of many peoples lives. Dinosaur Jr, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, The Ramones, Babes in Toyland & Gumball. We were all just very disapointed that the only format this film is available in is VHS. I found that he posted on his site about it being re-released on DVD with some new footage included but even after putting together all the work, it has been (AND STILL IS) sitting in the void within the halls of Universal Records. I contacted David & Steve Shelly (Sonic Youth) about that and neither one of them new why it this was the case either.
I figured the least I could do was try to raise some awareness about this because it would suck to have this film fade away to nothing but a memory so. Thus the myspace.com/theyearpunkbroke page was born. It picked up a little press and gained shows that I am not alone in this. As I no don’t have time to properly mange it any more, I have given the profiles ownership to David and hopefully, we will see some updates soon.
If you want to help, add them to your friends and let Universal know that you want to see it released!
Just posting for my memories (a late night ramble that may not make much sense when I read it later…..)
Jan 02 2008
I don’t know what has taken me so long to actually try iLike as I apparently signed up for an account months ago. I’m sure it was on my to do list but just never got around to it and I was already sharing my playlists with last.fm. Since I did not download the sidebar app before now, I can’t speak for the functionality it had before but the latest version (as of 12/18/2007) is pretty slick.
It shares a lot of the same concepts as the Last.FM app but the look and feel of how well it integrates with iTunes is impressive. I really like how it fits in as a sidebar instead of a separate GUI and lists recommended artists (with previews), links to free mp3’s from up & coming artists that are related, videos, tourdates and news all from within a seamless interface.
As far as cool goes, These go to 11.
Jan 02 2008
If you are reading this you must be lost. I’ll get the 404 up for your next visit as I’m sure this is not what you were hoping to find. If you have stumbled upon these pages expecting to find a cure for cancer you will leave disappointed. In fact, if you expected to find anything of value to anyone other than myself you are probably wrong there too.
High expectations? You bet!
Another year passes and I have decided that I would try putting some of my thoughts where I could find them again later instead of the recesses of the mind never to be returned. Incidentally, if you still have my H.R. Pufnstuff figure, please return it. Jimmy thanks you.
What to expect? Whatever tickles my fancy. Tech talk, music, project idea, rants on the abuse of smell hounds….. No excuses & no apologies.
So there. If you insist upon staying on the site you must keep you hands inside the ride at all times. I am not responsible for you losing your lunch, keys or patience.
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