It appears our blog has been neglected for a few days so I decided to write a brief blog about some tools I use on a daily basis that increase my producitivty and can’t imagine living without. I’ll break the list down into two categories: programs and FireFox Extensions (yes, I’m a junkie).
Programs
Launchy - Launchy [...]
We recently had a couple of clients ask about announcements via RSS feed. Well if you weren’t aware we post all of our announcements through our forums - which has RSS feeds enabled as an ouput type!
So if you would like to get the latest announcements from our forum you will use the following URL:
http://www.hawkhost.com/forums/external.php?type=xml&forumids=5
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Yesterday there was a report of a strange bug by a user on a system I’m currently working with. I was told a specific row was not showing up in the data set. The system was using PostgreSQL for the database and used ExtJS grid component to render the data set so my first instinct [...]
The Hawk Host site currently uses a semi framework I built several years ago to do MVC. It was great at the time was very light weight and did the job. As we’ve grown over the past year we’ve found it necessary to change things on our site and add pages. This is now where [...]
Tomorrow some time during the afternoon all our servers will have PHP 4 removed from them due to the end of life being today (August 8th 2008). Although there was new release on Thursday the 7th to address some security holes it’s quite clear it’s time to stop using considering in the PHP news post [...]
Well as most of you are aware we introduced a 1-800 about a month and a half ago. This has been a godsend and a burden all at the same time. Why? Well currently the 1-800 number forwards to only Tony and I’s cell phones, which is all peachy except the fact that we have [...]
I check the PHP site once in a while to see if there are any new updates and to my surprise the other day they announced that PHP 5.3 alpha has been released. We’d love to put it on Hawk Host to play around, but at this time it’s not meant for a production environment. [...]
Well it’s the end of July (already August if you’re picky) and it’s been a crazy one. It’s been one of our busiest months to date and we see no indication of it slowing down. So what should you expect this upcoming month? Well we’ll be working on getting more people on the live chat [...]