December 31, 2010

Been dormant, consolidating to single site ….

Been dormant/quiet for some time now - I have been soul-searching and I have concluded that I am spread too thin. I am consolidating all my postings to my main site and will be organizing the content in regular blog postings.

See you there or goodbye - http://www.idonny.com/idonny-blog

March 30, 2010

Just got excellent service and repair at Lundgren Honda in Auburn Massachusetts! Thanks Eric & team.

I will continue making the 25 mile trip even for oil-change.

Public Beta: WorkEtc Email Drop Box

WorkEtc Email Dropbox Task, Project and Support dropbox - endless versatility

Formerly, the application has had the ability to monitor a POP email account and create support tickets, or update existing tickets using incoming email messages. As of last week, this feature has been extended to provide a host of new possibilities and feature as listed… read more at iDonny.com

March 22, 2010

Getting an error message when using the Drupal video module…

warning: Division by zero in /…/sites/all/modules/video/includes/common.inc on line 17

Is a nagging message that you may get even if you are seeing the video player as explained in the bug report on - http://drupal.org/node/706806

In my situation, the problem cause was not covered by the described situations. It was rooted in the declaration of an unacceptable extension.

When creating the filefield, you may get this message:
=== Only web-standard videos are supported through the video widget. If needing to upload other types of files, change the widget to use a standard file upload ===

It means that you have specified an upload file extension that is not acceptable. If you do this, you will get the said error message even if you are trying to upload/play a commonly acceptable file such as swf, wmv, flv etc

March 8, 2010

Pipelinedeals, SugarCRM, 37Signals, WorkEtc, FreshBooks HarvestApp, … what to use!

I have used all manner of Hosted/SAAS small business applications in the last few years - this statement alone suggests that none of them has been perfect so far in filling the needs at hand. I have decided to periodically detail the things I like, those that I do not like, and what can be improved for each of these applications.

The purpose of this post is therefor to prepare myself to go back and re-test some features of each of these applications - more coming as days go by ….

March 1, 2010

Handling Elaborate projects using Worketc template sub-projects

We all have specialties in what we do, and this results in similar projects, or projects with similar steps. For example, I implement Content Management Systems using Drupal. For each CMS implementation project, there are sub-projects …..

Read the full entry at idonny.com

view of the project duplication dialogue

February 19, 2010

Latest iPhone OS Update sticky? problematic? -

I updated to the latest iPhone OS (3G) and for the past few days, the phone has been behaving in a way that is uncharacteristic of an Apple device… often,

  1. I get to a field and the keyboard refuses to appear
  2. If I have a native audio application active (phone, recorder etc), closing it does not happen without issues. The recorder sometimes remains active and prevents other apps from functioning properly for a few minutes before it closes down
  3. OmniFocus has been made unstable

I am attributing this to the OS cause since multi-tasking is not possible on the iPhone (except with Apple apps - phone, ipod, recorder), the issue must be in the OS since there is no one secondary app that could be running in the background in all the above situations except an Apple App

Naturally, the most common remedy for me is to shut down and restart the phone - a pain if you depend on the a dependable device !!

February 15, 2010

Products, Services, Solutions, what could be the difference?

Things sold to customers for money are often listed as one of the above. It is relatively easy to distinguish products from services:

Here is an attempt to define the terms in context: http://idonny.com/analysis/definition-products-services-solutions

February 10, 2010

Drush! Beautiful in a geeky kind of way

Most of us welcomed the GUI/Graphical User Interface kind of life when it because the norm… OK, remember the first time you used Windows (after using MS-DOS or PC-DOS or worse, Unix Shell)? that is the relief that I am talking about.

Here is the complete idea: http://idonny.com/analysis/drush-drupal-shell