Elvis Blogs - Elvis McNeely

A great reminder of how our King, Lion of Judah, remembers us! And, how we can trust Him!

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A client recently requested ffmpeg to be installed on the server. I have done this in the past on a client's box but he had a different OS setup. For that installation I used a HowTo guide from VexxHost. (read more)

My 4 year old knows I work with Drupal. Sometimes she will rush to the keyboard and klak her fingers on the keys looking for attention. When I ask her what she is doing she repsonds "making a website - like you daddy".

This day (of the video) I let her get one step closer to becoming the next drupaler in this house... (read more)

Just wanted to plug for Virtualmin and Drupal...

I have been using Virtualmin for about 6 months now, so far so good. Though cPanel is widely used and looked at as a standard, the Virtualmin control panel doesn't mess up your OS (I use Centos 5). cPanel does many overrides and changes to the Centos OS, and some say cPanel creates a security risk to Centos. (read more)

Problem: Just like you, I really hate sitting down to begin my work day only to find myself wasting the first 10 minutes removing spam. Though Firebird is smart, it still doesn't recognize junk mail as it should. I could build a ton of filters in Firebird but that is also time consuming, spammers are clever and will find a way to by pass filters and junk algorithms. What is a better solution? (read more)

Like most families, we dedicate the weekend to tidy up the house and do outside work. Yesterday I decided to dig up the east side of the backyard to plant a vegetable garden.

I am somewhat excited to have a vegetable garden, I always wanted to do gardening. There is just something about “living off the land” that brings satisfaction. Maybe it is the work itself; plowing the land, watering the crop, finding ways to remove nearby rodents etc, that brings satisfaction. (read more)

The Lafayette Tea Party turnout was pretty good considering the size of our cities. Unfortunately I couldn't come early enough to see the pouring of the tea into the Wabash River. Below are some highlights. (read more)

I am glad there is a Tax Day Tea Party in Lafayette tomorrow (12 - 2pm & 6 - 8pm). The party will take place at the pedestrian bridge, adjacent to the Main Street bridge that join West Lafayette and Lafayette. (read more)

Just about every other day my daughter will say something that is truer than she knows. Like most children she is full of energy and doesn't want to stop. In Portuguese we say "Ela e' electrica" (She is electric or She is like electricity). (read more)

During the last few days I have been working on a module that automates updating product information from distributors. (read more)

About two weeks ago I shared a site recipe (Drupal + webform + SugarCRM) to get Drupal talking to SugarCRM. In my previous Sugar post I mentioned I would make a patch for sugarwebform module, since it was a bit out dated (Sugar changed it's code a bit causing sugarwebform to break). (read more)

I have to give a big hand to all the module developers that make upgrading smooth. I was very hesitant to upgrade my Drupal install and the contributed  modules since it has been 14 months since my last big upgrade.

I thought I would just share with you some details...

1 hour before this blog post I was running on Drupal 5.7 with 13 outdated contributed modules. (read more)

I spent more time than I wanted to today learning how to subtract unix based timestamps. I was looking for nodes (Drupal) that are greater than 30 days old. After much reading on all the different mysql time and date functions, I finaly found the solution... (read more)

I moved a few more accounts from the old server to the new server this evening. Once the accounts were setup I went to change the nameserver names at godaddy, where I keep most of my domains.

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This project was set aside last June, as I was working on it in my spare time. Shopping.com (aka SDC) is now pushing all it's partners to switch to the Version 3 platform within the next 6 months. Yikes! I figured I need to give this module more priority. Here is the progress so far, for Drupal 6. What is functional... (read more)