Resident Geek

So I finally took the time out to change my Wordpress install to be a checkout from Subversion (SVN). This will eliminate the headache of copying files to my website when I want to update to the latest version of WP. Following Wordpress’ upgrade procedures (even though I know how to use SVN very well) I was able to backup my old site and move my modification over to an SVN checked out copy of Wordpress. Since I use this blog regularly I decided to not checkout the trunk which would be the latest and greatest version of WP, and might or probably does contain bugs. I opted for the tag of the latest stable revision of WP (2.6.1). When I decided to update next all I will do is run the command:

$ svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/SOMEVERSION/ .

and I will be all set! For anyone looking for directions to do this, even if you are a newbie to subversion, Wordpress has a great tutorial on it for you: Updating Wordpress using Subversion.

So as some of you already know, in my venture to keep up on the development community and trends, I have started to review books for Packt Publishing. They have sent me a few books to read and review, and I will be posting them to my blog for everyone to read. I have picked books from them that I believe are topics worth exploring and actually reading from a book (and not just finding a resource online).

The first book that was delivered is the one that this post is dedicated to. Object-Oriented Programming with PHP5 by Hasin Hayder was picked to go over what I believe to be the base of successfully programming in PHP. Object oriented programming is not an option anymore when working in this business. So if you have been stuck as a procedural programming in PHP it’s time to remedy that and apply some new (well not really new) techniques and master the language. Read the rest of this entry »

CoLab Orlando is a co-working facility opening its doors next to my office at NFi Studios. I am very excited about it and can’t wait to see the Orlando Tech community get together at it. Etan Horowitz of the Orlando Sentinel has written about it in his blog. Open house for it will be on August 26, 2008 on the 6th Floor of the Angebilt Building. See the CoLab Orlando website for more details.

What do the following have in common?

• The start of Marching Knight Band Camp
• Family renting a house in the keys

Answer: They both could or will be interrupted by Tropical Storm/Hurricane Fay.

It wouldn’t be hurricane season without one at least threatening to come our way. So to everyone in Central Florida…”hunker down?!?”. I think we can expect some weather, but I don’t know if we should expect to see real tropical force winds or what not, I guess by the late night update we should have a better idea. Looking at the computer models 6 out of 8 have the store coming close to Orlando, but mostly showing it as a Tropical Storm. This should be a lot of fun!

T.S. Fay: August 11, 2008 - 11AM

Bought a Motorola S9 Headset from ecost.com after seeing it listed on Woot.com as a sidedeal for less than $50. Well these headsets retail for around $130 at Best Buy and they are a bluetooth pair of headphones. Well when I got them they were poorly wrapped in box, and were missing the ‘Genuine’ Motorola holographic sticker. Well the mic doesn’t work on them and I suspect them to be a fake. All I have gotten was the shake from eCost on the phone. Finally they ’supposedly’ called Motorola and authorized a return to eCost??? I don’t think this possible and this is probably all a sham. So now I am waiting for an email from eCost with the RMA instructions and prepaid return slip so I can get a refund of my money. Funny part is that the woman warned me that the email will probably end up in the Spam box and to check that for it. Strange thing for an e-Commerce store to have to tell me. Never buy from them ever, they just do not care about you.

I am going to Best Buy to purchase them and spend the money on a ‘quality’ product.