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Oh when will I go Mac…

Dustin — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:59:28 +0000

I’ll admit, Macs are very cool and I have been considering making the switch for some time. It seems that every web developer I aspire to either started on a Mac or has recently made the switch. I’m getting the feeling I’m missing out on something. Besides that, It would be useful for my business to have one on hand for cross-testing instead of relying on third party solutions (or Safari on PC). I just haven’t been able to justify the cost.

Is a mac really worth 2x the cost of a PC?

Quotes Collection

Dustin — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:02:23 +0000

My ever expanding quotes collection. Please check back often…

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. — Albert Einstein

Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it. — Alan Kay

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. — André Gide

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. — Cyril Connolly

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. — Ambrose Redmoon

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress. — Alfred A. Montapert

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. — African proverb

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. — Basho

Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it. — Cale Yarborough

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. — Albert Einstein

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. — Benjamin Franklin

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. — Will Rogers

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. — Barry LePatner

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter. — Blaise Pascal

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. — Albert Einstein

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. — Oscar Wilde

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. — Albert Einstein

It is bad luck to be superstitious. — Andrew W. Mathis

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them. — Alfred Adler

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. — Albert Einstein

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. — Abraham Lincoln

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth. — Benjamin Disraeli

Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence. — Napoleon (Hanlon’s Razor)

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. — Albert Einstein

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. — Albert Einstein

People cannot discover new lands until they have the courage to lose sight of the shore. — André Gide

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing - that’s why we recommend it daily. — Zig Ziglar

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. — Lily Tomlin

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. — Ayn Rand

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. — Ellen Parr

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. — Albert Einstein

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. — Albert Einstein

The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking. — Albert Einstein

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. — B. F. Skinner

The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least. — Unknown

The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach. — Benjamin Mays

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. — Bertrand Russell

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. — Kurt Vonnegut

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. — Aristotle

We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are. — Anais Nin

We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong. — Bill Vaughan

We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. — Robert Wilensky

What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left. — Oscar Levant

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. — Abraham Lincoln

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about. — Albert Einstein

Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching. — Unknown

You can do anything, but not everything. — David Allen

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. — Abraham Lincoln

Joomla New Item Email Notification

Dustin — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:45:06 +0000

This example is for Joomla 1.0.15

If you have worked with Joomla for any length of time you will have noticed that the workflow system has some room for improvement. Following is one way to work around this shortcoming.

When a new item is submitted from the public frontend a Private Message is sent to the Super Administrator. Wouldn’t it be great if we could customize this message and have a copy sent to an email of our choosing? Here is how you do it:

First, edit _ON_NEW_CONTENT in your language file. This is the content of your message. The English language file is located at /language/english.php.

DEFINE(‘_ON_NEW_CONTENT’, "Hello,\nA new content item has been submitted by [ %s ] titled [ %s ] for the section [ %s ] and category [ %s ].\nPlease go to $mosConfig_live_site/administrator/ to view and approve this article.\nPlease do not respond to this message as it is automatically generated and is for information purposes only." );

Second, add the following to the /component/com_content/content.php right around line 2400 right after:

foreach ($users as $user_id) { $msg = new mosMessage( $database ); $msg->send( $my->id, $user_id, "New Item", sprintf( _ON_NEW_CONTENT, $my->username, $row->title, $section, $category ) ); }

Add:

mosMail( "noreply@yourdomain.com", "Admin", "noreply@yourdomain.com", "New Item", sprintf( _ON_NEW_CONTENT, $my->username, $row->title, $section, $category ) );

Now an email containing the new content information will be sent in addition to the PM. You can set rules where you receive this email to check the section and/or category. Then simply forward the email to the publishers for those content groups. Hopefully the next version of Joomla will have better workflow capabilities built in.

Warning: This is a hack!
I personally hate hacks, but when the client asks for a feature that can’t easily be built into an extension sometimes it is the most efficient option. If you use this just be warned that you will have to re-apply this hack if you ever upgrade.

Disclaimer: This has worked for me, but please use at your own risk!

Dynamic Logos

Dustin — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:15:52 +0000

I am days away from revealing the new iteration of the Dynamic Digital Media LLC website (For those new to this blog, Dynamic Digital Media LLC is the web development and online marketing company I started a few years back). With the new site is a new logo.