This morning I managed to install WP and load a nice decent theme in about 15 minutes, quite nice !!!
After the installation I imported old posts from my old blog, which ran on version 1.1[something] and to my delight, a few seconds and it was inserted into the new database.
Usability of the new WP 2.2.1. is actually very simple. Will start organising the blog again when I get some time again, but at least I got every up and running again.
Last week Thursday evening me and the wife went for a quick visit to Durban, had a few things to do there.
Our plans was to fly from Johannesburg to Durban on the Thursday night and return on Saturday evening.
We decided to go with the newly found subsidiary(think this is correct) of SAA , Mango Airlines.
On our first flight the flight was delayed by almost 2 hours due to a heavy thunderstorm and the airports’ computer system going down as well. Out of boredome, and stuck in the plane for almost an hour on ground I took a picture of myself 😉
Anyways, understandable as a result of the thunderstorm we had a relatively good experience.
On our way back everything went smoothly on Durban International, no problems whatsoever. Landed in about 45 minutes at Johannesburg International(I”m not using OR Tambo name …) . Then the paw-paw(mango maybe) hit the fan. First they had trouble getting the airlock staircase connected to the plane. After about 30 minutes they got a staircase at the backdoor of the plane and only let 5 people at a time out to the back as to balance the plane. After 45 minutes in the plane we got out of the front door airlock …
BUT – thats not the end of it. Now we are in the tube that goes to the terminal building … when we got to the terminal building the door was locked … and everybody walked back to the plane.
At the end of the day a flight that is in the air for between 30-45 minutes took us almost 2- 2 1/2 hours .
Here is a pic of the CEO of Mango Airlines, Nico Bezuidenhout and the plane they operate.
Just stumbled upon a very nice resource for nice javascripts that work(and very good at that), and also very nice AJAX toolsets etc.
Took some photos of the new house – going to use this as a “before” photo set. When the house registration comes through we’ll start putting up some new walls and paint the house abit…
Wow, after about 5 years programming I never stumbled upon this tag for normal “SELECT”-boxes.
Defines an option group. This element allows you to group choices. When you have a long list of options, groups of related choices are easier to handle
where did I miss this one ….?
Well, today while searching on Yahoo(yes I use other search engines also), I stumbled across this video advert about the founder of the Numa-Numa dance.(previous post).
Here is the vid:
Yes – Yes, I’m now addicted to YouTube .
This one cheers me up everytime .
Don’t get me wrong, I love some Microsoft products, and also love alot of Open Source Products, but when a giant like Microsoft makes a mistake, it is always way fun.
Check out this video of the guys at Microsoft giving a demonstration of the new Vista Voice Recognition software…
Last night I attended a webinar at Zend.com about Web Services and PHP. (had more than 500 people worldwide attending)
Although nothing new was learnt through the attending it was quite nice to see someone work in Zend Studio and see how this program works. Really looks impressive. I’ve been using a mix of PHPeclipse and SVN(for versioning) to develop my applications but Zend Studio combined with Zend Platform really looks impressive.
So actually the webinar was more of a promotional stunt than anything else.
Also something that was mentioned was coding standards, which in many PHP applications is non existent. The guy that presented the presentation showed some real examples of code etc, which was some really nice interface of classes etc. For example PHP5 ‘s very nice XML and atom classes etc.
PHP is maturning slowly but steadily.
Another EXCELLENT open source project…
This week I went on a expedition for a Microsoft Project alternative to manage project schedules and resources.
After Googling, Yahoo-ing abit I found the URL to this project from a member of SystemShock Forums.
I downloaded it and quickly went through a 10 minutes into tutorial that I also downloaded from the site. It took me like another 10 minutes to draw up a 2 month project plan almost. Very nice features and very extensible and agile.
THe program works on a view-based system where you custom design your views with the varialbes of the project etc. Obviously the standard views are already there for you like Gantt charts etc.
Open Workbench is an open source desktop application that provides robust project scheduling and management functionality. Already the scheduling standard for more than 100,000 project managers worldwide, Open Workbench is a free and powerful alternative to Microsoft Project.
Released in December 2005, Open Workbench 1.1.4 provides significant new enhancements and bug fixes. For more information on version 1.1.4, please review the Open Workbench 1.1.4 Release Notes. The source code for Open Workbench 1.1.4 is also available on SourceForge.
Open Workbench provides all the functionality and benefits that project managers expect in a world-class scheduling application:
* Open Workbench can be used and distributed free of charge throughout an enterprise.
* Open Workbench is a stand-alone desktop application that provides robust project scheduling functionality.
* Open Workbench provides the unique ability to generate project schedules based on resource constraints.
* Open source developers will find a ready-made community of business users interested in their enhancements and extensions. The source code and other developer information are available on SourceForge.
* The open source distribution and community development model will now bring quality, innovation and cost advantages to the project management world.
* Open Workbench can also be used in a fully integrated fashion with CA’s Clarity solution. Please visit www.niku.com/go/owb for more details.