Sep 26
NickMarketing
European newspapers complained that there were too many American tourists, while Americans were complaining that there were too many immigrants. The older generation everywhere complained that the young were disrespectful, while politicians in Europe and America worried about the disturbing turbulence in []. There were newfangled “aerobics” classes; there was a trend-setting vegetarian society, and calls for sexual freedom (which were rebuffed by traditionalists standing for family values), and much else.
The year is …
Sep 14
NickDevelopment
I’ve been a fan of storing data in other ways than a SQL database for a very, very long time. Many of my projects have had a notion of some sort of ‘flat file’ or other type of data registry. In the Perl days, persistent Perl hashes were used.
So with interest, I’ve been watching the “no SQL” movement and various software and techniques they’ve released.
One problem with “playing” with some of these technologies is that most shared hosting accounts aren’t going to allow you to install the required application servers (for example, redis) on your account.
Given that fact, I’ve implemented a small PHP library that supports the very basics of the Redis command set using … MySQL.
Ok, so the concept is s a total oxymoron, but useful anyway.
It’s not fast, it’s not particularly scalable, and keys are limited to 256 bytes, while data is stored as a long blob. Those limitations asside, it does allow you to play with some of the concepts without any additional technology investment or tools. When you’re ready, you can run a redis server and pretty much drop in the Predis client.
Where possible, I’ve implemented each function in terms of the get / set primitives, with optional mysql locking.
I’m hoping other people will improve the code, remove the reliance on the mysql class, and implement additional features like sets and hashes.
Code is available from git-hub:
http://github.com/ntemple/mysql-keyvalue
Sep 02
NickMarketing
I woke up to a pleasant surprise today: my Droid Incredible was ready to update to Froyo.
After ok’ing the upgrade, it went off downloaded the software then rebooted.
“About” Software information in Settings now reports Android Version 2.2.
I haven’t had a chance, yet, to look at the new features, but I’m looking forward to playing on it later this week.
Aug 23
NickAWeber, Development aweber
With the release of the updated AWeber Jomlink software, I had a chance to visit the Joomla Extensions Direction in order to create a new listing.
Anyway, I found some posts that made me realize … I’ve never fully described the power that our AWeber software has. It really is the best bridge from AWeber to Joomla available. Ok, so as a proud “dad” of the software I may be a little biased. But really, it rocks.
So I decided to write a post … over at the Intellispire blog … on exactly why it rocks. And how, over the years, it has evolved from a “scratch” of approximately 12 lines of code to a complex, robust bridge to one of the most popular email services in the world.
Do, spend a moment and hop over to the Intellispire blog and check out this post:
Why the AWeber to Joomla Link (jomlink) rocks.
Aug 22
NickMarketing aweber, mwg
This week has been a great time to purchase software products that you can use for yourself, or for beginning to build your own inventory of digital products you can sell. The topics I’ll covert today include the MWG 1.2.3, AWeber Jomlink, Epic Firsale and Source Code Goldmine.
Eric Holmlund’s “Epic Firesale” ends today. This is a series of 32 software and 14 ebook products that you can use or sell in your business. I’ve downloaded and looked at the source code (which you you can purchase additionally), and most products are pretty good. Some are PHP, Delphi and a little Visual Basic thrown in. Note that you DO NOT need the source code to sell the products: the initial offer includes everything you need: the product, documentation and sales website, to make a fully functional reseller website.
However, with the source, you can take the products and brand them as your own, which is highly desirable from a branding standpoint. You can see the bonus package I’ve put together at the Epic Firesale bonus page.
Remember, this sale ends shortly.
Also, Jeremy Burns has put together his latest source code goldmine package. This package consists of 10 high quality ebooks – you’ll want to read the Source Code Goldmine review to find out more.
Marketing Website Generator has released version 1.2.3 of the the open source Membership Management System. The MMS system is software you run on your website to manage your membership and products. This is a free download after account creation.
My company, Intellispire has released version 3.1 of the AWeber Jomlink software, used to connect your Joomla powered website to your AWeber auto-responder service (or any one of the many compatible systems, such as jvlistpro).
Aug 22
NickMarketing
Jeremy Burns has created yet another Source Code Gold Mine, and I’ve just completed downloading the package.
As you know, I’m a great fan of any type of software and digital products that I can use, modify and sell, and this package stands out among the crowd.
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