EZezine.com upgrade development

Going into an upgrade/bugfix development phase for the newsletter / ezine hosting service EZezine.com

there are several additions to theĀ  newsletter / ezine hosting service that our members have specifically asked for and some bugs that need mended as well as a server update. This should keep me busy for a while…

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Dreamtime volunteer system

dreamthefuture.org is gearing up for their yearly festival “Dreamtime” in Paonia Colorado. I have been doing some fine tuning and adjustments on the volunteer system cgi app and developing an affiliate/online ordering system. This is a volunteer project, dreamthefuture.org is one of the groups of people that I do free work for because I believe in what they are doing. Check out the website to find out more about their festival/vision.

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Sequential Autoresponders

Currently I am working on adding a sequential autoresponders system to the ezezine.com ezine hosting service. This will allow members to setup ecourses and other mailings that need to be sent out on a timed schedule from the subscribers signup day.

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EZezine.com still not blacklisted

Yep, after all these years our ezine and newsletter hosting service has not been blacklisted!!!

Why?

Because we made our rules for publishers hard, we lost a few members when we did this, but we wrote the software specificly to not let ANY spammers use our service. This is a service for real publishers only! There is simply no way for a spammer to get in and use our service. All of our members are REAL CONTENT publishers.

Check out EZezine here

Check out our blacklisting status here

Anyway, good for us… you can look forward to much more of this great quality of service from us.

Enjoy,

Jopa

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adding movies to blog posts

I just got done with the task of adding movies from my digital camera to one of my blogs lake-atitlan.com.

After trying many different linux apps that convert video formats I settled with the command line app ffmpeg to convert the files from avi to flv (shockwave flash). First I had to install ffmpeg with mp3 support. Then I got good conversion quality and size with this command.

ffmpeg -i movie.avi -ar 22050 -acodec mp3 movie.flv

Now I have the movie but how do I get my flv into my wordpress blog? I decided to go with the Anarchy Media Player, which is a plugin for wordpress that lets you embed many different kinds of movies and multi-media into your posts.

That did the trick, I am sure there are other good ways to do this but after looking around at my options this was the system that looked best to me as I may be adding other types of multi-media in the future.

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Low cost solar system/power for homes

This company is installing solar systems to residential homes all over the US for only $500 refundable deposit and lower monthly rates then your current power. Plus your rates won’t go up for the length of your contract (up to 25 years).

I think this is just cool to see a company working on renable energy on such a grand scale. So I signed up as a re-seller.

You can find out about becoming a reseller here!

Or check into getting your solar system here!

I wish more companies would look into creative ways to work with renewable energy business plans like this.

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New EZezine Live Resource

live.ezezine.com has been added and is ready to release to the public!

This is an online ezine/newsletter discussion area for publishers to share ideas.

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Re-facing the MyTech website

mytechsolutions.com is way overdue for a facelift. I have finally taken on the task of bringing this site up to date. I have converted it from the old SSI includes system to php includes like all our other sites, fixed some messy old CSS syntax in the style sheet. I will be adding resources section and updated services list in the next week.

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Favorite (and most commonly used) resources

Here is a short off the top of my head list of my favorite and most commonly used web programmer resources on the web.

groups.google.com though not as good as it used to be, google groups is still a great place to ask questions and get answers.

php.net homepage and docs for the PHP language.

cpan.org perl modules repository, its all here.

mysql.com homepage and docs for the Mysql database server.

freebsd.org As all my web servers are running FreeBSD keeping up with the OS is a must.

ubuntu.com I recently have switched to ubuntu for my desktop computers because I like there dedication to making desktop linux and there are plenty of apps.

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Dev/Real is now a blog

6 or more months after taking down the devreal site because it was way too old and stale, I have converted the whole site to a blog. This way several teams of developers can do the updates and manage content together. I think it is a good move to remove the bottleneck in getting content updated here.

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