setjmp’s Life

Well I’ve been deeply burrowed into WordPress now for about 3 months, and I thought about all the articles on the web that covered exactly what I was looking for. You know, the one that moves your learning/ability forward 1000% in 500-1000 words. What I could call the WordPress Tech goldmines. You know, all those articles I couldn’t find in other words.

I must say however, there are a few resources that have proven quite useful too and in the weeks to come will detail some of those as well. Most of what I have found however, is as with any open source software, the source code. I’ve been in source code (open source and otherwise) for nearly 3 decades now, and I am glad to say it’s more readable than ever. WordPress is a good example of that.

I’m going to start writing down those sorts, find the ideas that would lead to such an article, and well…. Write it I guess. I’m also open to others wants in this area too. Definately, if you have something, you want to see and can’t find, feel free to comment and I might find that for you, or make one. No promises, however Gretsky said it best when he said “I missed 100 percent of the shots I never took!”

I will probably start with the basics, however; a lot of my own digging thus far has been into “WordPress Themes”, “WordPress Plugins”, “WordPress API” and much into the inner workings of the wordpress loop. Again, if you have anything you can’t find, feel free to post it here, and if you found something great out there, by all means, post it here too

-setjmp

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After a month of Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Edition, I’m sold. Of course I haven’t really used anything else modern recent and later am subject to change my mind (probably with the next large Hard Drive purchase for this Dell Precision T3400, and the latest FreeBSD install at that time).

It’s handy with dual screens, as I can stay organized between my developer tools, writing tools, and general online research needs. The next few paragraphs will focus more specifically on these topics. Though in them all, I always like to be listening to something. My playlist keeps me motivated and moving  lot of the time and well, I’m not quitting my day job for singing as I’d kill the music market with fears of listeners ever hearing me again… All in the comforts of my home office.

My development environment includes Apache, PHP, MySQL, Netbeans, among a number of other less frequently used tools. With my last system right before this one, I was seldom able to move along well though the difference was system power.. I have to say this T3400 is quite a bit more powerful, and that may be the biggest difference (offsetting even the additional system resource load that Vista brings).

I run about 5 sites, and all my tools at the same time along with music playing quite well. About the biggest burp I have had is unzipping files. I’m guessing it’s a windows issue, as it happens in the explorer (compressed folders), though it also occurs with the winzip demo. It doesn’t happen enough to have time to find it’s roots; and I can get past it by just unzipping multiple times and not overwriting files already extracted.

When writing I generally do a lot of research and have upwards of 40 browser tabs open between 2-5 browsers open. Most often it’s internet explorer 7, though I also use safari and mozilla in there. The latter 2 don’t run as fast. I use them more for development where compatibility is a concern. Openoffice and Adobe reader run well in multiple instances along with all the browsers going to. It makes it real easy to get caught up in TMI out there :)  . That’s an ADD thing and no system will solve that as long as the internet exists, hehe.

When I’m not on something specific , I reasearch a lot and get all the messengers, going along with windows mail, and so on… It all runs well so far on this new system with Windows Vista Ultimate Edition, however I’d imagine it would be a mass of slow run without the Quad Core 2.4Ghz Intel Processor, 4G of ram, and SATA speed drives.

A few things I have noticed are that my old cleaning tools help, though not quite as well as they did with XP. I can’t get all fragments to go away. Oh well, it’s fast anyways :)  Another front was that it’s not as easy to get wireless / network going. They’ve fuzzied a lot of that, to a non-tech level. Unfortunaely, I think tech ;) 

All in all though, it’s been a good experience for nearly a month, and I’m able to work in ways that with weaker computers on XP I couldn’t. Maybe this article should have been more on the Dell T3400 entry level workstation. Anyways, just my brain spewing something I thought I’d share with everyone.

-setjmp

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One thing the internet has done over the last 2 decades, is prove more and more; for every boom, there is more activity leading to bringing things to the hands of many people. That includes You! I’ve been reading and found a particular eBook that’s got similiar wording… That would be “Mobile, Domains & The Future” - Javier Marti Mr Marti is also highly visible and available online, so if you have further questions there are a number of places you can contact him. Whether it be at his TrendiNews.Com or even in some of his hangouts such as Mobility.Mobi .

Lately I’ve been focusing a lot of time on ideas that will lead to a setjmp.mobi that helps bridge the gap between the desktop web and the mobile web. Imagine the ability to get out and about: and being as productive in the unknown out there as you are in the comforts of home… Of course it’s still a work in early progress (aka planning). (Any ideas appreciated hint hint)

I have been finding a many useful resources in the .mobi community. It’s refreshing and reminds me of the computer network administration and security circles of the mid 90s. Though it’s more content focused now :)  Javier Marti’s eBook is one example of information packed content that is bound to tell everyone something they didn’t know, and could make good use of, if only they read it through and focus on what seems to apply to them.

While I can’t say I’m diving into the concepts of it, I am definately reading it a few times, and finding some good ideas as a result. More will be revealed. It’s on my MUST READ list for sure.

-setjmp

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After little focus and a lot of stress for a couple months, I think I’ve started getting some ideas for my new setjmp.mobi .  Note: Those using desktop browsers may not be able to read there. This is because it is an attempt to be fully compatible with mobile browsers. Unfortunately the main browsers (by default) don’t support XHTML MP quite yet it would seem.

If you have a cellphone and internet on it, you probably have been around to a number of your favorite sites, and realized that many of them can be quite useless on your cellphone. They suffer from TMI, excess bandwidth hogging images, too many javascripts, and not enough content outside of frames and wide tables to really make use of their simplest features.

.mobi wasn’t just created to be the next HIP/FLY top level domain. It has a lot more purpose in mind: To contain sites that are useful to the Mobile Webbing Population! If you are one of us using your cellphone to try and find quick answers to your tasks going on out and about, you probably know how useless the internet can be on many of these small devices, of course unless you are lucky to have some of the more advanced ones…

My Nokia 6126 is pretty neat, however it isn’t as advanced as internet explorer 7 on my new Dell T3400. It has it’s limits and a couple glitches too. For example anywho.com will like reboot it as do a number of other sites. Even this blog. If a page (even mobile friendly) is going to load bad, that phone will do it. I spent an hour last night figuring out why it was formatting the homepage of setjmp.mobi all wrong. Being mobile friendly isn’t as simple in some ways as regular web, of course it’s much simpler on all other fronts! That’s what can make it so useful…

At the moment, on setjmp.mobi you are bound to see solid mobility loading of many things you will find here as well. But even better loading than the wp-mobi plugin does here. Have a look, and keep watching. I am also experimenting in some interface to the desktop world in mobi friendly ways there.

Recently I joined ClickBank, and will be putting up a few articles related to products I see there that look ok, and in most cases: their site needs to be at least semi-mobile-friendly. This is a tag I will probably be driving on more in the future too

Well, more will be revealed…

-setjmp

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Dancing En Pointe (Ballet) can be quite an accomplishment and look quite exquisite on the barre while getting in shape for the center. Though preparing physically is very important to avoid physical injury. Learning how to do it right from the beginning will assure you that you can continue for many years to come.

What you do pre-pointe can be the difference between a productive future, and inability to do as much (due to lameness). The Perfect Point Book is the Audio/Visual Course that will teach you what you need to know, prior to pointe work even at the barre. It’s a great Multimedia version of what was already a very good manual.

Right now, for a LIMITED TIME ONLY you can have both versions for the original price. Click Here! to read more about it. The site you will be redirected to is semi-mobile-friendly!

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