Tech4Him – Technology with Integrity

Well, the time finally came. We bit the bullet and purchased a new Dell PowerEdge R710 and an MD3000i SAN for the office. The R710 will be a new VSphere ESXi 4 host that will take on a bulk of the production VM’s while one of the remaining 2950’s will remain a smaller production host and the third 2950 will be a test and development box.

So you can see the MD3000i with the faceplate off directly below the new R710. I’m tempted to leave the faceplate off so that the executives and visitors see more lights when they look in. For some reason, non-technical people tend to have a first reaction to hardware such that more lights is mo’ better. Read the rest of this entry »

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This video is from Atlanta Drupal User Group (ADUG) member Kent Lester, and his presentation on Open Publish – the Drupal distribution created by Phase2 Technology.

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Photo by bas:ilSo, we have a website that displays images from an external source based upon a URL. For various reasons, sometimes the external source does not have a valid image for the request. In order not to show a broken image to the use, we need to validate that the image is valid.

Thanks to Google (NOT Bing. haha) we found a great little approach that was quickly placed into a Drupal template file.

if (@GetImageSize("http://www.testdomain.com/testimage.gif")) {
  echo "image exists";
} else {
  echo "image does not exist";
}

And according to the site, if you do not have GD installed you can try this code:

if (@fclose(@fopen("http://www.testdomain.com/testimage.gif", "r"))) {
  echo "image exists";
} else {
  echo "image does not exist";
}

We took the concept of the GetImageSize function to handily render web thumb shots from an external service, only if a valid image exists. This way we don’t show broken images to those Internet Explorer users.

via Developer Blog » Check if external image exists.

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Not sure how I missed this on 4/7/2009, but SP1 is now available for SQL Server 2008. Important to some are change to the deployment and management options of the SP. Read the rest of this entry »

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Sorry to Get You All A-Twitter, but Google Is Not in “Late-Stage Talks” to Acquire the Hot Microblogging Service | Kara Swisher

Too funny.  As is so true and can be so terrible with rumor mills, we have the converse of the earlier post. According to both Scobleizer and Kara Swisher, Google is not trying to by Twitter. (Thanks to @paulmorriss for the initial link.)

So…only time will tell, but even if Google and Twitter are only in talks about how to form a partnership, alliance or such. Please, please, please… don’t ruin Twitter with ads.

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Google to Buy Twitter? Report Says Deal is in the Works – PC World.

According to a report in PCWorld (and others), Google is working on a deal to purchase Twitter.  As it usually goes with the “rumor mill” many different reports along these lines are emerging. Regardless of how it might happen or why Google would purchase Twitter, one common thread is emerging, Google wants Twitter. Read the rest of this entry »

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Google to Buy Twitter? Report Says Deal is in the Works – PC World.

According to a report in PCWorld (and others), Google is working on a deal to purchase Twitter.  As it usual goes with the “rumor mill” many different rumors along these lines are emerging. Regardless of how it might happen or why Google would purchase Twitter, one common thread is emerging, Google wants Twitter.

Personally I really hope this does not mean Google Adsense units in Tweets or something similar. I htink that monetizing Twitter feeds ruins the simplistic concept and usefulness of Twitter. Already we see the commercialization of tweets, automated direct responses, et al. Perhaps it’s only a matter of time before Twitter is just another “old” thing and the new un-monetized “thing” will gain momentum.

Please Google, if you acquire Twitter, don’t kill it!

Rumor: Google to acquire Twitter in the near future

Why would Google buy the Twitter open source project? | Open Source | ZDNet.com

Twitter Google AdSense Ad Units?

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Thanks to the great folks helping put DrupalCon DC on right now. Less than 8 hours into DrupalCon DC 2009 and they already have 3 session video up. You folks rock!

I’ll work on compiling a list of the session videos below. Come back for updates.

DrupalCon DC 2009 – Drupal In The Newsroom – drupalcon
DrupalCon 2009 – Drupal In The Newsroom – Recorded by Robert Nelson Vance of proVanceTek LLC (http://provancetek.com/)

• Notes, Jen Reeves

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