• Social Networking

    LinkedIn: Worthy?

    LinkedIn.  Worthy of my time or not?  Well, the question was answered the other day when I had someone ask me to do a project through LinkedIn who I otherwise would not have met.  I did the project, they paid me, that was the end of the story.  So while I wasn’t really convinced before, now I am.  😉

  • Mac OS X Server,  sites,  Social Networking

    Installing Joomla! on Mac OS X Server

    I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal 1. Enable MySQL. 2. Create a database in MySQL called joomladb. 3. Create a new user called jadmin that has full priviledges to this database (the user does not need to be called jadmin, but that is the username we will be using for this walkthrough). 4. Download the latest stable release of Joomla. 5. Extract the tar files into a new folder (for this example we are going to call it joomla to keep things easy). 6. Make the following folders writeable for Joomla administrator/backups/ administrator/components/ administrator/modules/ administrator/templates/ cache/ components/ images/ images/banners/ images/stories/ language/ mambots/ mambots/content/ mambots/editors/ mambots/editors-xtd/ mambots/search/ media/ modules/ templates/ 7.…

  • sites,  Social Networking,  SQL,  WordPress

    Defining Web 2.0

    I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Chances are, with all of the hubbub surrounding overnight success giants MySpace.com and Flickr, you’ve undoubtedly heard about the second coming of the internet, commonly referred to as “Web 2.0” . Bloggers are frequently commenting on “Wiki” this and “tagging” that. But what is this Web 2.0 phenomenon and how can it improve how we manage our lives and businesses in a digital world? While there may not be a simple answer to these questions, there are a few suppositions that can be made as to what Web 2.0 is shaping up to look like and how its changing the way we exchange information.…