You should stop by my other website: FuzzMartinMedia.com. And if you have, thanks! I hope you stop by again sometime!

As seen on AsSeenInWI.com:

Hopefully this article will save one person from getting a headache.

If you have created a PHP file upload script and you are not able to get the file to actually upload to your GoDaddy.com hosting account, here are a couple of things to check for:

1. Run a phpinfo script (create a new page with only <?php phpinfo(); ?>) and open it up. Check to see which version of PHP you are running.
2. If you are running PHP 4, then open the PHP.ini file (in the root directory) and change the upload_tmp_dir line from “/tmp” to “./php_uploads”
3. If your phpinfo script states that you are running PHP version 5 +, then make the same change, above, then duplicate your PHP.ini file and rename it php5.ini

That should do the trick. YMMV.

I got my NginX server up and running. My memory usage went down by over half. We’re cookin’ with fire now.

Don’t mind the mess around here. I am in the process of moving my site from one server to another, so there will be some broken links and missing photos for a few hours/days while I get everything strapped down. Until it’s fixed, enjoy the awesome default WordPress theme.

A word (phrase?) of warning to would-be Lunarpages customers – don’t use WordPress on their servers. For the second time in about six months, I have been flagged for using too many CPUs. All I was running on their servers was WordPress (latest version) in three separate directories. They informed me that even though I have been a loyal customer for the past five years, they wanted me to upgrade to a VPS (Virtual Private Server) for $39.99/mo. (as opposed to the $7 I was paying before) or they wanted me to move to a dedicated server for $99/mo.

Uhm. No.

So, from today forward, all of my websites will be run through a VPS that is NOT Lunarpages, and instead of having my clients buy their own Lunarpages spaces, I will instead have them sliced into my VPS and they will be billed accordingly.

I really hate getting headaches from people that I give money to.

Goodbye, Lunarpages. We had a good run.

I wrote my first blog tonight. Yes, I used a tutorial, but it was pretty fun to get a Ruby on Rails blog up and running. It feels so much freer than PHP. Pretty fun (for a nerd).

A break for some dorkiness:

When I’m creating website applications for clients, I usually use FCKeditor as a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor. The problem with it is that it constantly spits out <p> (paragraph) tags around the beginning and end of the output. For the life of me, I couldn’t figure out a way to get rid of that. Yes, you can set FCKConfig.EnterMode = ‘br’ in the config file, but that just changes how the editor responds when the user hits “enter” – it will still wrap the output with <p></p>.

My solution – php’s strip_tags(). I changed the editor to <br> mode (as shown above) and then I echo out the information as: $row(strip_tags(row['mytextcolumn'], “<a><br><b><u><i><em><strong><strike><blockquote>”)). That seems to work just fine. It’s not perfect, but it gets the job done. I would be completely in love with FCKeditor if it were possible to just turn off the <p> wrap.

If you aren’t reading From Where I Sit, then you are spending too much of your already wasted time in places that are far less interesting. Elliot’s posts are always (well, mostly) short, sweet, and very easy to digest.

We have, however, started a drinking game based on the number of times Elliot has claimed to be an agnostic. He says it so often that it almost seems like he is trying to convince himself. (I, however, think that he has a stronger faith than most people who claim to be Christians.)

Anyway, go read FWIS.org and add it to your RSS reader, your Firefox live bookmarks, or your daily time-wasting routine. You’ll be a better person for it.

Slick

Check out Poladroid. It’s a cool way of converting your photos to old school Polaroid(tm) style photos. Just drag, drop, and (duh) shake the photo to develop it.

http://www.poladroid.net/

(my niece)

This would be a super cool iPhone app if used with the phone’s accelerometer.

Just testing out “Twitterfeed.” Go Brewers! Go Badgers! Go Home Improvement Projects!

Over the past month or so, I have been updating the website for Waukesha’s BGS Glass. After trying to make a home-brewed template and engine, I decided that just couldn’t nail them both down in a time frame that was acceptable to me. Instead, I decided to use WordPress as the site’s base. BGSGlass.com has a similar look and feel as FuzzMartin.com, but I’m hoping that the WordPress Kubrick theme will prove to be a huge asset when it comes to Search Engine Optimization and layout flexibility.

For those who don’t know, I used to work at BGS Glass when I was a kid. It’s a great family-owned operation that is crazy-go-nuts about providing quality work. When you need commercial storefronts or residential glass work in Milwaukee, Waukesha, or anywhere in Southeastern Wisconsin, I highly recommend that you use BGS Glass.

FuzzMartin.com has been rockin’ the WordPress content management system for some years now. In fact, we were using it well before widgets became a feature of the WordPress system. Unfortunately, the instructions that tell you how to convert your pre-widgets site to be compatible is a nightmare.

It is, however, quite easy to do and there is no coding involved unless you want there to be.

Step 1:
Take a screenshot of your website so that you know the order of your sidebar content before you start picking it apart.

Step 2:
Backup your old “functions.php” and “sidebar.php” files that are located in /wp-content/themes/NAME_OF_YOUR_THEME/

Step 3:
Download the latest version of WordPress.

Step 4:
Copy the files, “functions.php” and “sidebar.php,” from the latest version of WP into your theme folder. f

Step 5:
Goto: /wp-admin/widgets.php and have fun!

YMMV. If you have edited your functions.php page, you might run yourself into some problems. In that case, you’ll have to follow the Automattic.com instructions.

Here’s the link they give you if your website isn’t currently setup for widgets: http://automattic.com/code/widgets/themes/

As a fan of all things Apple, I used to read The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), daily. Over the last year, though, they have changed a slew of different things on the website. They’ve hired at least one writer that hardly ever knows what she’s talking about, they have added more ads to the website that take just about forever to load, and now, whenever you click on a link, it makes you sit through an ad before transferring you to the next site.

The last part is by far the most annoying. Once you click on any link — even to post a comment, apparently — an ad pops up via CSS that covers the entire window. There’s a “skip ad” option at the top — but it doesn’t do ANYTHING.

Now, I’m not complaining that TUAW “sold out” or anything like that. They’re a business, and they deserve to make as much money as they can. One would think, however, that a tech-oriented website would do a better job with its coding and interface so that geeks like me don’t get annoyed and go elsewhere… and there are plenty of “elsewheres.”

Anyway, I am hereby removing TUAW from my bookmarks. Hopefully there are enough posts like this on the Internet that will get them to clean things up a bit.

Sorry Fuzz, but I had to just toot my horn somewhere and I thought FM.com would be the place to do it.

With 10,000 downloads as of last night around 2am, I am now a certified gold contributor on istockphoto.com

Check me out here: http://www.istockphoto.com/creatingmore

Google always seems to come up with some silly April Fool’s Day joke. Today it’s “Gmail Custom Time.” It’s pretty cute – but a little too unbelievable to actually “fool” anybody.

My favorite line: “Need an email to arrive 6 hours ago? No problem. ” Haha.

There is a pretty slick plugin for WordPress called, “PodPress.” When it’s working, it provides a really cool playback option for podcasts and other audio. Whenever you upgrade WordPress, however, it gets all bipolar, starts kicking babies, and pisses all over your couch.

Hopefully they’ll figure out a way to add it to “the loop” without h*cking up WordPress image functionality, like it so often does.

*Note: For those of you who are using WordPress 2.3 or higher, and your thumbnails are not working, disable your PodPress plugin and you will again enjoy Thumbnail bliss. I believe WordPress 2.5 has it’s own podcast system (non-plugin), but I haven’t tested it yet.

Anyway, to MightySeek – I love your plugin – when it works. When it doesn’t, it’s a little bitch.

Seeqpod.com is much cooler than Project Playlist. It is SO much easier to navigate, and you don’t have to have an account to embed music on your website.

Thanks to Jed @ B&S for the tip!

…that CNN uses WordPress for its blogs.