So my latest adventure has taken me to the land of php. It seems the direction my company has gone is more open source…so they are all poo-poo-ing my .net background. It is hard, but really reminds me of classic asp. We will see how “easy” it is. I know there is a ton of examples out on the intertubes.
We have been looking at some different hosting options and have really have two options. We want to play on the Amazon cloud really bad - so we plan on that. Then, we also have been checking out rackspace pretty heavy - this will give us the linux we need, but options of windows if necessary.
My first task will be to get a directory product called “phpmydirectory” going. Seems really cheap for the features. Had some problems importing the seed data - but after some forum work and a couple help tickets - the import is singing. Threw in 10,000 records in abotu 20 minutes. Not too bad.
OK - I’ll report back in, if I survive! :)
Categories: innovation
Tagged: .net, amazon, PHP, rackspace
Look what popped up in my Google alerts today:
- http://snoonan.blogspot.com/2008/07/deathbrai-quickie.html
- http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080725/NEWS01/807250340/1079
- http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080725/NEWS01/807250346/1079
Pretty cool - sounds like about 10,000 will be int he town of 2,000 this morning.
Categories: Uncategorized
Tagged: Google Alerts, RAGBRAI, Bike, Biking
One of the biggest issues with solar today is the efficiency. But after checking out Treehugger’s post “Putting the Sun’s Temperature in a Tube: SEHC Labs Turns Up the Heat on Solar Thermal Energy” that may well change.
Solar Hydrogen Energy Corporation Labs has announced that they have developed the world’s most efficient solar thermal energy technology. Though only at the prototype stage, SEHC has developed a way to concentrate sunlight to levels 5,000 that which normally fall on the Earth’s surface.
If this can work it’s way to the comsumer, then this is a huge breakthrough. Harnessing this much solar is hot, hot, hot!
Categories: future · innovation
Tagged: alternative energy, solar, Solar thermal energy
I’ve been tied up the past week or so looking at the exciting world of online directories, calendars and all parts in between. You don’t realize how many of these types of things are out there in the intranets until you try looking.
Right now - you either get an online, business type, directory or a calendar. One would think we could merge these two beasts - they are really very much alike. One hold business - address, name, products, hours. The other a date, time and location. But don’t forget categories - the way we transmorgify taxonomies to try and get people what they want.
So hang tight - as things start to come together I’ll try to post results. And please, if you know of any good solutions…let me know.
Categories: community
Tagged: Calendar, Directories, Directory, News and Media
It’s all about the matrix…a guy from Oxford has an interesting take on things:
This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation. A number of other consequences of this result are also discussed.
I’m just wondering if I can re-boot my little section.
Categories: Uncategorized
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