Just wanted to let everyone know that NETIKUS.NET ltd has released their first blog. The new site, http://www.eventlogblog.com/blog, went live today. There is already some content up there and there is definitely more to come. Most of the information will be intended for systems administrators and users of EventSentry.
After a several month hiatus I am back working on a Ruby on Rails project. For the months away I had to programming using classic ASP… ouch.
The second time around I am definitely experiencing the wonderful side of the language. It really is great for establishing simple code that is really doing some advanced things.
Plus, now I am on my Macbook and using Textmate so life is just grand.
I wanted to let everyone know that I have decide to start a daily photoblog. I am very excited about making this idea a reality. Basically I realized that I have too many photos, and mainly too many stories to not have a photoblog. 
Also one of the main reasons I have been motivated is that over the last few years I have been increasingly jealous of people have streams of photographs that you can trace back. They have a great history that is documented and can be enjoyed. There have been a few links in my photography section for a while now of Noah K Everyday and The Adaption to my Generation - A Daily Photo Project ++ c 7 11 23 and I am just so amazed at peoples dedication. True dedication is becoming harder and harder to come by. Therefore it is time for me to join in the fun!
Check it out!
For those of you who have used Flickr you are aware of how easy it is to change the titles of your photos. You simply click the text you want to edit, the web page does some fancy stuff to change the text to a form element, you change your text and hit okay. It couldn’t be easier. I find myself working on a project where that type of functionality would be perfect except it would be great if I could change the form element to a select box instead of a input box.
After some searching I found SubZane’s Ajax.inplaceselect which is an update to the class published for scriptaculous . This worked absolutely great. However, I really was hoping to include an onComplete event that would update some content on the page based on what a user selects. I attempted this with the built-in InPlaceEditor and it worked find, but for some reason not with the InPlaceSelect. I was able to find a way around this by modifying a small bit of the code.
Before:
onComplete: function() {
this.leaveEditMode();
//this.options.onComplete.bind(this)(transport, this.element);
}
After:
onComplete: function(transport) {
this.leaveEditMode();
this.options.onComplete.bind(this)(transport, this.element);
}
Now I am up and running. I am assuming this.options.onComplete.bind(this)(transport, this.element); was commented out for a reason so if anyone knows please pass it on. For the meantime this appeared to solve the problem.
Another workshop that I attended at the web 2.0 expo was on search engine marketing and optimization. There is a lot of useless information out there on how to supposedly improve your ranking on the major search engines, but I found this one to make the most sense. It was great to hear from Todd Friesen and Greg Boser about the history of SEO from their point of view. Both of them have been in the field for quick some time now and worked with some pretty notable clients. Between their workshop and how to improve the performance of the webpages, I had a pretty motivating day!
One of the workshops at the conference that I found to be very useful was by Steve Souders from Yahoo! He outlined several steps to improve the speed your web pages. It is amazing how much time is spent loading the images and scripts on your page while your visitors wait for the main content to show up. Some of the rules are more obvious than others, but overall it I think it is worth consideration.
I have been wandering around in San Francisco for the last three days and I am still amazed at this city. Being from the big city of Chicago I am not used to the Europe flair, the degree of social interaction, and the auto commercials in which a woman is complaining about having to balance mortgage payments and managing her startup leaving her with no time to look for a new car. For someone who is passionate about the web and technology, this is definitely the perfect city. If there was only a way to facilitate a community in Chicago.
For the last two days I have been attending O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 expo. At first I was a bit cautious of a conference that highlighted a two year old buzzword, but I am found the conference useful nonetheless. I sat in on session from Jeremy Keith, Todd Friesen, Greg Boser, and Chris Messina. All gave great talks that really helped me. I look forward to what is to come in the next two days of the conference.
I haven’t been able to write too much up on it because I have been experiencing problems with Wordpress after I migrated to a new server at Media Temple. After a bit of troubleshooting it seems that all the primary keys stopped their auto increment. It was very strange. I also noticed the same thing on my Mint database. The problem is resolved now show I can post again.
There have been a lot of great links past around the conference that I will be sharing shortly on this site. Just so you know.