Posted by: admin in wordpress, integration, bbpress on
Oct 28, 2008
http://www.simplosys.com/blog/bbpress-review-wordpress-forum-integration
Wordpress bloggers often have the need to integrate a forum or a user discussion area in their websites. This is especially true for blogs for a commercial product (software/book/download), multiple-author blogs or blogs on topics that lend themselves to discussion among visitors. My blog at http://www.endlesswait.com is about legal immigration issues in the United States. Legal immigrants are a frustrated bunch, usually waiting in line for years (often more than a decade) to complete their immigration process. During this wait time, there are all sorts of information that they need to maintain their legal status and what not. They tend to discuss this with each other.
I am working on adding a forum to this site at http://endlesswait.com/forum. As of today, this forum has nothing in it. Just the plain bbpress install.
The installation process is pretty simple. It is documented well here but there are a couple of points where you could get confused. If you already have a wordpress blog and are adding the bbpress forum to the blog, then Step 2 in the installation sequence takes care of that. I managed to install my forum in about 20 minutes from start to finish. It should have taken even lesser time, if it weren't for some minor errors that got resolved by reading the documentation pretty easily.
ScreenHunter 5.0 is a free Snag-IT replacement screen capture software. You can download it here - Screen Capture Software.
Here's my review about it. The product is a great tool for simple screen capture. If you are looking for Area/Window to JPG/GIF screen capture, this tool will do it for you. And it's stable, never once crashed on me. The interface is very easy to use and the screen capture works every single time. It works like a charm on XP Home, XP Pro, Vista Home Premium and Vista Ultimate. I am sure it works on other OS too, though I haven't tried it.
Often, when we look at a new software product, the hardest part is to figure out what it does NOT do. Obviously, the product owner/seller does not talk about the deficiencies of the product in detail and online reviews are often not detailed enough to get a real picture. So, here you go - the cons:
Over the last few months, I've been spending a lot of time thinking about my career moving forward. I have a post-graduate degree in MIS, a few years experience as a Business Analyst, working mainly as a consultant on Workflow projects on Opentext Livelink and a little bit of everything else. I also founded an SEO/Web Marketing company about 2 years ago and I've been spending a lot of time growing that as well, in the process learning Joomla CMS, CRE Loaded, Plone, Etc. Overall, I've enjoyed my work quite a bit, but I feel like I am at crossroads now.
I am debating whether to pursue my entrepreneurial venture - the SEO/Web company, full time and grow it further, or take on consulting work.
I already have about 10 staff members around the world, mostly part-timers, working for me for the SEO company, which is what this site is sort of about. I've spent a lot of time and energy bringing it up to this point and I know that I've just started. If I put in enough time and make some smart decisions, this company can be big enough to fund my full time involvement with it soon enough (my estimate is that it will take 9-12 months). I think I am an entrepreneur at the very core and this option seems like a fun thing for me to do on a long term. Afterall, there's potentially endless growth possibilities and that's what makes the entrepreneurial life so exciting. It also has its share of stresses though. My day will start with irate client calls and staff issues and end with that too. I am a very technically and analytically inclined person and I am not sure I will get enough opportunity to work on technical or analytical things if I choose to run this company full time. The clients will be small businesses - less sophisticated and less state-of-the-art usually compared to large enterprises. So there you see where the dilemma comes from. Also, of course, there is far more risk in running a small business like this to make my living than being a consultant.
Posted by: admin in Untagged on
Oct 17, 2008
Right now...October 17, 2008, around 2 AM PST..I am trying to get the last few bits and pieces of work done and invoices generated, payments made...and boom! Yahoo mail goes down...Yahoo displays a friendly message:
You've stumbled upon a temporary problem we're having with Yahoo! Mail. Usually this problem gets resolved quickly, without you doing a thing. In fact it may be taken care of now.
Posted by: admin in setup, mojoblog, joomla, blog on
Oct 6, 2008
This blog was built using Joomla and a few blogging components and bots. I am planning to enhance this blog, mainly using tips from forums and other blogs. I will document my experience as I proceed, for the benefit of anyone that wants a blog in Joomla and chooses to go with mojoblog. If you are not decided on what blogging component to use just yet, I wrote a previous post about blogging options in joomla.
Pre-requisites:
1. A Joomla 1.0.13 - 1.0.15 installation. mojoblog is not guaranteed to work with other versions as of this writing, to my knowledge. I got it working on a 1.0.13 installation.
Posted by: admin in Untagged on
Oct 3, 2008
Start at this URL which only members of this group receive: http://www.bradcallen.com/seomindset/. If you are interested in SEO and are not a member of his group yet, I strongly recommmend it. He is one of the best out there.
You get his book SEO Mindset for Free ($7.99 for shipping) and a lot of other bonuses inlcuding Audio sessions with a lot of SEO experts, free membership to http://www.searchmarketingelite.com for 1 month and the best UNADVERTISED part - SEO Elite ($167 value) FREE. I got mine today. Unbelievable offer, totally worth it. By the way, I am not affiliated with him in any way and none of these links are even affiliate links or anything. I just genuinely think this is a great offer, the best I've seen in a long time from any of the SEO companies.
I am not sure how long this is going to last. Probably not more than a day or two. Get it fast!
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