Archive for June, 2009
Sunday, June 21st, 2009
avoid drupal wysiwyg api module - getting FCK editor + IMCE + GeSHi all working together
After 6 hours of messing around - I finally have a wysiwyg editor working on the the new drupal site
What a nightmare to get this working - I tried so many permulations
I wanted to use tinymce - but that drupal module has been deprecated - with a large red message telling me I must […]
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Can a Open Source app store exist?
I think there is a fundamental difference between a opensource appstore and the iphone app store in terms of competitors for a particular app. If a plugin is open source how do you stop people cutting and pasting the code and claiming its theirs - or simply shortcutting by reading the source code and rewriting […]
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Learning lots of new technologies - Drupal and OpenX
Since end of Jan 2009 I have been working on horseandcountry.tv
After a lot of very late nights and a small team of bright tech and editorial people the site is live.The site runs on
ubuntu
amazon EC
OpenX for graphical and videoads
Limelight as the CDN
Drupal as the CMS
Flowplayer as the video player (which inserts video ads)
Apachesolr as the […]
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Monday, June 15th, 2009
basic intro into SEO
I have spent some time reading and talking to a SEO - thought I would include some of the things I have learned.
SEO is about exposing good quality content not ticking the google-bot. blackhat SEO and spammers get punished. It is becoming harder each year to trick the algorithm.
image source: http://www.redcardinal.ie/
The top link on the […]
