Nick Temple - Personal Blog

I just released the first version of the Intellispire Joomla! software updater to the beta testers.

While this session is full, I expect to release another version in a week or so with more features - and bigger group of testers. Read about what the first group of people are getting:

http://www.intellispire.com/web/page/updater-beta.html Then go ahead and sign up for the next release.

I’ve just completed “beta1″ of the Intellispire Software Updater for Joomla! (more commonly known as “com_updater”), and am looking for a few people to test it out. I’ve even put a screen shot on the front page, so take a moment to check it out - then join the beta!

In order to streamline my business and focus on the development of the Intellispire Network (which I’m building out into a “real” technology service company), I’m selling various business assets mostly having to do with .

If you are interested and know what to do with a website and software, and have a few thousand dollars available to spend strain, contact me and we’ll discuss what I have to offer.

• Complete website(s)
• domain names
• Software / ebooks / Videos I’ve created and / or acquired semi-exclusive rights to
• Resale rights products
• Technical consulting to help you get things going

ideas of how it all comes together, and a few other odds and ends.

I’d prefer to find one person who wants everything, but may part things out if necessary. I envision someone who has a good grasp of Internet Marketing, already with some things going, who wants a bunch of new technology related products that you can have polished to add to your product line.

If this describes you, or you have some other ideas, please do shoot me an email so we can start discussions.

I’ve decided to go ahead and release the Trixbox CE AMI I created on EC2, as described in this post.

This is completely “unofficial”, and is simply a packaging of the the vmware version already released.

You’ll want the documentation from the official Trixbox site.

The image name is ec2image/image-trixbox1.intelliforge.net-manifest.xml

The root password for the image is “trixbox”.

If you try out Trixbox on EC2, please let me know how it works for you by commenting here.

Coming from an original assembly language (computer machine language) background - where optimization is the norm, I foundChris Vincent’s new site at PHPBench about PHP micro-benchmarking intriguing- it’s well worth the read. You can find a short description here.

While I agree wholeheartedly in this explanatory comment at the end of the page:

All in all micro-benchmarking was not considered to me as something that Is utterly important for how a program works. I agree with those people who have said that the major items at the hardware and algorithms.

I also agree with Chris’s approach: if you can determine the faster way to do things, and train yourself to use the “better” constructs consistently [never at the expense of maintainability, however] you’ll get a step up in your code … not only in performance (which can be significant in large programs), but also in terms of consistency in your code.

I do have some questions about this benchmark, for example, exactly what version of PHP is being used, and what is the platform? Would a 64 bit processor have different charcteristics than a 32bit? Maybe. Maybe not.

I’ve been playing around with various voip technologies, including Trixbox Trixbox CE is the sucessor to Asterisk @ Home run by Fonality, who’s CEO, Chris Lyman is a long-time friend since the Virtualis days in the 90’s. I’ve also been working a LOT with Amazon’s web services, especially EC2, S3, SQS and SimpleDB.

One cool thing I found is that it is trivial to get Trixbox running on EC2. Here’s what you do:
1) download the latest vmware version of Trixbox CE from: http://www.trixbox.org/downloads
2) boot up in the player
3) install the EC2 tools
4) bundle the volume

After a couple of hours you should have a fully functioning AMI you can then boot-up on EC2 with Trixbox CE ready to rock.

Don’t forget to use EC2 to open up the appropriate ports.

I’m considering making a paid AMI for those people who want to play with it without taking the time to create their own - and to play around with Amazon FPS to boot.