Like all good developers, I have a backup system. As I have literally over a million file that I need to back up on a regular basis, I chose the Seagate Mirra. For its network functionality, local availability, and sleek design.
Now It's had a few issues that were recently corrected by a patch, but I'm talking about the specific issue of Mirra's apparent file locking.
For example: I'm running a program through my development environment. This program creates a temporary file, and the deletes this file (over and over and over) Now the problem with this scenario is that when this file gets locked by the Mirra, my application can't create it again, and therefore my app fails. Perhaps my app could work around this, but I hardly think that it's worth it to me to redesign my application, to take into account someone else's created annoyance. Perhaps I was ten minutes though a thirty minute process? It's quite a pain in my ***.
Now every time I am working on a program that creates a temporary file in a folder being backed up by the Seagate Mirra, I have to disable the Mirra. Otherwise, I lose countless minutes and ever hours of productivity daily.
Perhaps Seagate can look into the way they process files. Like check to see if the file is in use, or has been created with the last .xxx seconds? Anyway that's my gripe for the day!
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Monday, August 6, 2007
Best Free Directories
Here are some of the best free directories on the net. Use them to add your website link for free. Enjoy...
- Directory Archives
- Turnpike Emporium Directory
- Windows Live Search Submit Page
- Yahoo Site Submit
- Submit Express - Free Search Engine Submission
- Web World Index
- iMegaMall Directory
- Link Centre
- SoMuch
- SEO King
- Ranking WebSite Directory
- PortalIT Web Gallery
- Net Insert - Must Add A Custom Meta-Tag To Page To Get In!
- NeoRunner
County, City, State, Zip Code Data
Hello, and here's some important news from Twilight Surfers Development.
We just finished a new website that will help the public find any information related to any city, state or county in America. We feature links, latitudes, longitudes, time zones, area codes, and of course, targeted ads from Google. We think it's laid out real nice, for to make it easy for surfers to find the city data that they're searching for. check it out. The link is in the title.
We just finished a new website that will help the public find any information related to any city, state or county in America. We feature links, latitudes, longitudes, time zones, area codes, and of course, targeted ads from Google. We think it's laid out real nice, for to make it easy for surfers to find the city data that they're searching for. check it out. The link is in the title.
Sunday, July 1, 2007
The Music City Madman - A novel of terror & suspense
A new project for me, I am publishing my 1st novel online for the world to read for free. I would rather some get to enjoy the book for what it has to offer than let it collect dust. This book took me seven years to write, and although it was a great learning experience for me, I believe it has some fine writing in it, and I hope those who do enjoy it will tell others.
Look for the entire manuscript online for free very soon.
The book was originally published through AuthorHouse several years ago when they were 1stBooks Library. Needless to say I wasn't pleased with their service, and I pulled the book from their stock.
What happened was that I had gotten a deal through Anderson Austin News, a big distributor for fiction interested, and they agreed to sell the book in airports, and grocery stores everywhere, but 1stBooks didn't want to sell the book cheap enough, and they handled what could have been a great situation with disdainful ignorance.
Anyway, here we are years later, and the book is available to freely read online. The project should be up and running within a week or two, as I just have the first page of the website up today. Then I have to build a web publishing tool to convert the book into individual web pages. The process shouldn't take all that long.
Look for the entire manuscript online for free very soon.
The book was originally published through AuthorHouse several years ago when they were 1stBooks Library. Needless to say I wasn't pleased with their service, and I pulled the book from their stock.
What happened was that I had gotten a deal through Anderson Austin News, a big distributor for fiction interested, and they agreed to sell the book in airports, and grocery stores everywhere, but 1stBooks didn't want to sell the book cheap enough, and they handled what could have been a great situation with disdainful ignorance.
Anyway, here we are years later, and the book is available to freely read online. The project should be up and running within a week or two, as I just have the first page of the website up today. Then I have to build a web publishing tool to convert the book into individual web pages. The process shouldn't take all that long.
Friday, June 29, 2007
SiteMapper Tsd Software on eBay
Look for some great new software in a couple of weeks on eBay... I am building a XML SiteMap creation tool for release as a very inexpensive application for maintain complex sitemaps.
It will allow for creation from url, or local folders, create a html version of the map, and exclude dynamic urls, or filter out file extension not to list. Perfect for the busy web developer. Built in the TSD style, that is "Ease of Use!"
I think it will be a hit, and about 4.99! It will be powerful, and cost effective, as well as easy to use. I like about fourteen hours on it, of course where will I find that many hours ???
Also an update on Structured Site. After my announcement below, a lot of stuff went on, and I haven't had a chance to finish that software. It is extremely complicated, with dozens of components, OOP! I think sometimes, I'm almost done, and... then I think about another innovative feature that I want it to have, and when I release this thing, it will be the bomb baby...
Well, too many irons in the fire as they say, as I have one robot returning data, one website publishing tool running, and Delphi begging me to code, all while tying to get more pages indexed for my clients, and myself.
I better get back to it.
It will allow for creation from url, or local folders, create a html version of the map, and exclude dynamic urls, or filter out file extension not to list. Perfect for the busy web developer. Built in the TSD style, that is "Ease of Use!"
I think it will be a hit, and about 4.99! It will be powerful, and cost effective, as well as easy to use. I like about fourteen hours on it, of course where will I find that many hours ???
Also an update on Structured Site. After my announcement below, a lot of stuff went on, and I haven't had a chance to finish that software. It is extremely complicated, with dozens of components, OOP! I think sometimes, I'm almost done, and... then I think about another innovative feature that I want it to have, and when I release this thing, it will be the bomb baby...
Well, too many irons in the fire as they say, as I have one robot returning data, one website publishing tool running, and Delphi begging me to code, all while tying to get more pages indexed for my clients, and myself.
I better get back to it.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Online Poetry Library Lounge - Read & Submit Poetry
Please check out the newly designed and implemented PoetryBrowser.Com. I designed and built this website for the hundreds of online users that used to use the old version of the online poetry library which was always a hobby. The last version I built of the poetry library was built in a couple of days.
I have spent over a full week. The site now requires a free author account. From inside the online poetry library's "My Office" link, authors can post or edit their poetry that's in the library, or comment about other users' poetry.
Online authors that choose to save their poetry for display in the online poetry library lounge can delete offensive comments that other users can post about the poetry. In this way, PoetryBrowser.Com allows authors complete control over their library community experience. Their is a extensive profanity filter in place, so that shouldn't be an issue. Only other authors can post comments, or poetry. The poems themselves go through a profanity filter as well, so I am trying to keep this library family friendly.
Authors may choose to post in one of eighteen categories defined by the webmaster. Although much of the site is dynamic, the poems and poem category indexes are actually static pages, for SEO reasons.
The poetry library lounge pages, and the office functionality require log in. Once logged in, those pages are completly dynamic and from your PoetryBrowser office, you can comment on other poems, and edit your own content.
The library gets published several times daily. Don't call it a poetry blog! It's the online poetry library.
So if you love to read and write poetry, check out the new site by Twilight Surfers - PoetryBrowser.Com
I have spent over a full week. The site now requires a free author account. From inside the online poetry library's "My Office" link, authors can post or edit their poetry that's in the library, or comment about other users' poetry.
Online authors that choose to save their poetry for display in the online poetry library lounge can delete offensive comments that other users can post about the poetry. In this way, PoetryBrowser.Com allows authors complete control over their library community experience. Their is a extensive profanity filter in place, so that shouldn't be an issue. Only other authors can post comments, or poetry. The poems themselves go through a profanity filter as well, so I am trying to keep this library family friendly.
Authors may choose to post in one of eighteen categories defined by the webmaster. Although much of the site is dynamic, the poems and poem category indexes are actually static pages, for SEO reasons.
The poetry library lounge pages, and the office functionality require log in. Once logged in, those pages are completly dynamic and from your PoetryBrowser office, you can comment on other poems, and edit your own content.
The library gets published several times daily. Don't call it a poetry blog! It's the online poetry library.
So if you love to read and write poetry, check out the new site by Twilight Surfers - PoetryBrowser.Com
Monday, January 22, 2007
Structured Site Web Editor HTML editor site builder
Note this link won't be live till later on today, due to the fact I'm blogging at work. "The joys of working for yourself!" Anyway, I thought I would announce the imminent release of some new Twilight Surfers Software. The application is a full-featured HTML editor and site builder. I've been working on this program for nearly a year, and it's the third full version, yet the only one to be available to the public. I plan on releasing the software by the 1st of March. It should be available by then for sure. I have to just write the integration / installation routines.
Structured Site is unlike any html editor that I know of, it's slick, fast, has integrated publishing capabilities, database page storage, integrated file and image browser, built in javascript and html code libraries. Let's you get work done fast, keep all your sites in a database, publish in a couple steps. I plan on selling ten billion copies and retiring to a private island. The demonstration version will not allow publishing even to hard disk, and I hope I've thought up and good method to protect the application from those darned crackers.
Check the link for all the goodies that Structured Site will contain... But here's a quick breakdown in case your too lazy to click!
Never look for another missing web page. Never have to look for images. Never
have to look for your favorite JavaScript.
Twilight Surfers Structured Site is the web developer's answer to common
time-consuming web design tasks.
Tired of cluttered Toolbars, that essentially do squat???
Let Structured Site's clean and usable interface delight you with quick design
times, and everything you need to keep coding right at your fingertips!
There's a lot I didn't list, and from the description, I'm sure you developers are surely salivating!
I can't wait myself...
Structured Site is unlike any html editor that I know of, it's slick, fast, has integrated publishing capabilities, database page storage, integrated file and image browser, built in javascript and html code libraries. Let's you get work done fast, keep all your sites in a database, publish in a couple steps. I plan on selling ten billion copies and retiring to a private island. The demonstration version will not allow publishing even to hard disk, and I hope I've thought up and good method to protect the application from those darned crackers.
Check the link for all the goodies that Structured Site will contain... But here's a quick breakdown in case your too lazy to click!
- Image Conversion
- Centralized Image Library
- Multiple CSS File Support
- Handles all Web Type (File Types)
- Javascript Library
- Color Scheme Generator
- Color Pickup from screen
- On Screen Ruler
- Dictionary
- Thesaurus
- Integrated Shortcut for Helper Apps
- Creates Navigation from files, open windows, or site files!!!
- Integrated W3c Validation
- Check with Tidy
Never look for another missing web page. Never have to look for images. Never
have to look for your favorite JavaScript.
Twilight Surfers Structured Site is the web developer's answer to common
time-consuming web design tasks.
Tired of cluttered Toolbars, that essentially do squat???
Let Structured Site's clean and usable interface delight you with quick design
times, and everything you need to keep coding right at your fingertips!
There's a lot I didn't list, and from the description, I'm sure you developers are surely salivating!
I can't wait myself...
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Page Background Color
A short note about background colors in HTML. If you are going to have a different page color other than that which will feature your main content, it is a good idea to enclose the content area will a {div} or {table} that is the same color as the area that holds the content.
You see, web pages load in stages, and let's say you have a dark background, with white content areas... For a few seconds, (depending upon page speed) you will see dark text on a dark background. This is especially apparent when dark backgrounds are used with tiled images for {div} or {table} backgrounds.
If you use a {content} area, it will load quickly and prevent this.
Alright!
You see, web pages load in stages, and let's say you have a dark background, with white content areas... For a few seconds, (depending upon page speed) you will see dark text on a dark background. This is especially apparent when dark backgrounds are used with tiled images for {div} or {table} backgrounds.
If you use a {content} area, it will load quickly and prevent this.
Alright!
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Good Site Navigation Layouts
For you to have good site navigation, there are couple of things you need to think about. Many times, you will probably have many more pages than you want to list in your main header and footer navigation lists. That being said, they still need to be categorized logically.
Including a page called site map with links to all your pages is a good idea, because a visitor to your web site can always go to that page to see quickly what may be of interest and or value. It's a good idea to keep you header and footer navigations clean. Let's say you have 5 services, it stand to reason that you have one services link, and then branch off from there.
Of course you could always have a set of navigation links above that does this, and then below you could list all you service pages in the footer navigation. I do find this method pretty good, if you have a relatively low number of products or services.
So even though you want to use consistent navigation links, you do have options. One important thing to remember is you should really use fully qualified urls in you site's navigation! That way when you move some page to a subdirectory for some reason or another, your site won't break. Always provide redundant navigation on each page, and never use flash or script as your sole source of site navigation, this is a huge no-no.
Including a page called site map with links to all your pages is a good idea, because a visitor to your web site can always go to that page to see quickly what may be of interest and or value. It's a good idea to keep you header and footer navigations clean. Let's say you have 5 services, it stand to reason that you have one services link, and then branch off from there.
Of course you could always have a set of navigation links above that does this, and then below you could list all you service pages in the footer navigation. I do find this method pretty good, if you have a relatively low number of products or services.
So even though you want to use consistent navigation links, you do have options. One important thing to remember is you should really use fully qualified urls in you site's navigation! That way when you move some page to a subdirectory for some reason or another, your site won't break. Always provide redundant navigation on each page, and never use flash or script as your sole source of site navigation, this is a huge no-no.
Fake Nike 360s Nike Air Max 360
this post is a little off-topic but still and all, be sure to check out my eBay guide to buying Air Max 360s on eBay. My guide is in the top 5000 of all guides, and you should be able to get to is by visiting the about me page. Don't bother to read the info just look at the "guides by this user" and you should find the guide.
The guide tells you all you need to know if you've ever been scammed on eBay and bought fake NIKES. You might not even know! But you can be sure by reading the guide.
The guide tells you all you need to know if you've ever been scammed on eBay and bought fake NIKES. You might not even know! But you can be sure by reading the guide.
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