Spidle Blog http://spidle.homedns.org/blog Inside the DOM Fri, 22 May 2009 21:05:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 Setting up SVN on Mac OS X Server Leopard Hint http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?p=180 http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?p=180#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 21:05:47 +0000 mark http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?p=180 Stumbled across this little tidbit of helpful information the other week while setting up a version control server at work.  Using Subversion on a Mac OS X Leopard Server you need to enable all of the dav_mods in the httpd.conf just enabling the dav_mod_svn will produce an error when starting apached
LoadModule dav_module libexec/apache2/mod_dav.so
LoadModule dav_fs_module libexec/apache2/mod_dav_fs.so
LoadModule dav_svn_module libexec/apache2/mod_dav_svn.so

I initially tried getting this to work about 6 months ago and gave up.  There are a few good tutorials online but they all neglected to mention the above piece of information.

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]]> http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=180 Joomla F1 Authentication Plugin 1.2 http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?p=178 http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?p=178#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 20:55:44 +0000 mark http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?p=178 Released this today, I fixed a few bugs and actualy came up with instructions that make it work ;)  And more imprtantly I tested it before sending it into the wild this time.

Do these to make it work the way I intended it to work.

1. install plugin,
2. enter your church code, and a data exchange user
3. Disable  Auto Create Users

Step 3 is needed so Joomla only authenticates against your F1 database and doesn’t create a local joomla user.

plg_f1authentication

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]]> http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=178 Joomla 1.5.x FellowshipOne Authentication Plugin http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?p=173 http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?p=173#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:54:28 +0000 mark http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?p=173 A few months ago I wrote an authentication plugin for Joomla 1.5, that uses Fellowshipone weblink accounts to login to a Joomla 1.5.x website. I was planning on integrating this into the next version of our church website but it looks like we may be abandoning Joomla altogether. I wanted to put this out there for anyone else to use.

Download it Here
plg_f1authentication

Mark

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]]> http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=173 New Mac Ads http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?p=172 http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?p=172#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:15:43 +0000 mark http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?p=172


I like this one best.  ;)

Apple Ad Time Traveler

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]]> http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=172 Flash Login Module Re-write in PHP/Ajax http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?p=169 http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?p=169#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:06:12 +0000 mark http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?p=169 I spent the last few days rewriting a login flash app in php.  It was quite fun and still needs a little tweaking but the end product is pretty decent and is much more reliable actually authenticating.  Check out the comparison videos:

PHP/Ajax Login

Flash Login

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]]> http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=169 Sad times for the Newspaper industry http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?p=168 http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?p=168#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:49:40 +0000 mark http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?p=168 I saw this Friday on a friends blog.  He used to work for the Rocky Mountain News, but no longer, since Friday was their last edition, the paper had been in existence for 150 years.

Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo.

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]]> http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=168 Outdated http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?p=167 http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?p=167#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:29:16 +0000 mark http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?p=167 The one thing my wife loves to hear me say, “it’s outdated” when it comes to technology.  I had the opportunity to use that phrase over the weekend when I was at the Apple store picking a new case for my 1st gen iPhone.  They had a whopping 3 cases for me to select from.  Where as the 3G model had at least a dozen or more.

It really amazes me how well Apple can position people to feel that they have yesterdays technology or model when it is perfectly fine.  My 1st gen iPhone works great.  It still makes calls, I still play games and download apps to it.  But when you walk into the Apple store and see the next generation of your widget you instantly have the feeling of how old and outdated your current model is.

Good job Apple keep up the good work.  Too bad I still won’t be getting a new iPhone anytime soon though.  ;)

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]]> http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=167 $67 http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?p=166 http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?p=166#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:33:38 +0000 mark http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?p=166 That is the cost of taking a family of 5 out to a movie.  This is going pretty cheap too.  We went to Jordan Creek Century to see Bedtime Stories, which is a very good movie. 

So before we picked up 4 slices of cheese pizza and a couple drinks at the food court.  Then bought the movie tickets, then popcorn and 2 drinks.

I guess I could have titled this blog “I remember when…”, see I remember when movies cost under $5 to get into etc.

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]]> http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=166 Macintosh 25 Years http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?p=165 http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?p=165#comments Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:17:53 +0000 mark http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?p=165

This is a pretty cool video of the intro of the Macintosh by Steve Jobs. It’s his first keynote ;)

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]]> http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=165 One year later http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?p=164 http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?p=164#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:06:49 +0000 mark http://spidle.homedns.org/blog/?p=164 It has been a year since our youngest went to the eye doctor.  He was only 4 then, and we knew then he would probably need to get glasses.  The doctor wanted us to wait a year and see if his sight improved on its own.

Unfortunately his sight got worse.  We knew this back in November when we had his conference for preschool.  He was not doing well at all.  He already had an appointment for January for the eye doctor so we waited until then.  The appointment was a week ago and yes he needed to get glasses.  So here he is with his new glasses.  Hopefully his sight will get better now that he has these.

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