Fianchetto

http://wordnavigator.com/ends-with-by-length/ork/
amazing little website for wordsmiths. One fo the weekend. Good times. (I can hear the sirens coming)

Lying in bed, warmed by an oil heater and an hour of smiths singles. Sound sooooo good on my mega hifi setup; remastered;repackaged;remembered!

Just thought I’d post what I found out about coming up with a solution for a non-profit organisation for a custom site search engine. For example if you want users to obtain an accurate set of results of pages from your site.
the Google service provided for this is pretty good, and would seem to work well on the few sites I checked. The only thing you need to be sure of is the terms and conditions. With a non-profit these are pretty fair - the ads can be turned off and you can style the results page to get the look and feel of your site. So a professional search in look and exceution can be cooked up in a few minutes. The labels feature si pretty cool too, so you can guide users to content better.
The only thing I found a stumbling block is the look of the little search box itself, although it is a small price to pay I suppose. The minimium width for this will be 120px if you want the watermarked version or smaller if you are prepared to ahve the Google logo sit outside the box. The latter option is a bit off-putting though I feel.
You can read more about this http://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/docs/ui.html
The support search forum has changed now - so make sure you look at the current one: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/customsearch?hl=en&start=40
I also looked at RollYo and Yahoo BOSS search / custom search but these didn’t seem to do what I Wanted - a search for a specific site, by using the already spidered pages.
any advice/comments ?
Luke

A long article on Artist run galleries.
http://www.shiftyparadigms.org/artist_run.htm
mentions Transmission Gallery quite often as a case in point.

amazing little guide: http://eeemac.blogspot.com/
nice blog too on all things mac and eee PC

The simpler alternative to running MAMP or XAMPP on Os X is using the built-in PHP, APache and getting a binary of Mysql. Although MAMP and XAMPP are simple ways also.

When I first installed mysql for my mac running Leopard just after it came out (end 2007), it was a bit flakey and casued a lot of people problems. So here is a mini tutorial for putting MySQL on Leopard now, since it is easy now, and more timely given cake php RC4 just got released

I can recommend these 2 guides as well as my notes here.

1) http://www.keithmedlin.com/2008/01/installing-cakephp-on-os-x-leopard-1051/

2) http://www.givegoodweb.com/post/53/cakephp-leopard-virtual-hosts

This pic is what we are aiming at with this install!

Right,let’s go! I am just installing Cake on a Mac mini running 10.5.2 and I noticed that finally Mysql seem to have provided a binary .dmg mac package on their website.(I think this came out in November as far as I can tell).

So go get the package from mysql:

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html#macosx-dmg

make sure and pick the right processor type for your machine!

while waiting for that to download, I recommend also checking out the guides I linked above and set up your shell / profile and Apache for PHP with virtual hosts. This will allow easy development set-up where you can change from one app to another.

Now you should have your mysql .dmg ready by now, and you can just run that. So iside the .dmg you shd have a .pkg for mysql itself. install that first. Then run the start-up item and then finally the preference pane. ( this had problems before with Leopard, I think it is fixed now though!) When it asks I would install for all users, rather than current user only.

try a logout and back in and mysql should start automatically.

that’s pretty much it - check out the 2 linked tutorials to get any more info you need on PHP and so on!

The final gotcha is a weird one. I odn’t know why but if you put localhost as the @host@ in your cake database.php config…you’ll get a socket error in your PHP, when you load up a cakephp app (once you have followed the instructions for virtual hosts and so  on).

So, despite having a working mysql and mysql-connectability via something like CocoaMysql, or the terminal, it does not conenct via PHP.

Then I googled a bit and found arecent blogpost with a simple fix! Just put 127.0.0.1 instead. Or indeed read the rest of the blogpost and get a fuller answer/solution.

luv boobyWomack xxx and a Merry Chrimbo to all cakettes everywhere

RON BUTLIN Thursday 27th November, 7.30pm, Sloan’s
Edinburgh based Poet - hosted by Vital synz. ( website ) Tickets available on the night Thursday 27th November, 7.30pm, Sloan’s 108 Argyle St, Glasgow G2 8BG
And the following night

nice intro to the dvd released last year of this amazing film. nice stills too!

“Just to let you know on 9 November between 5 and 6 pm GMT on Jazz FM Radio the Johnny Mathis single “I Love My Lady” is to be played by DJ Ralph Tee as a special favour to me. He’s actually got the whole album but because of legal reasons is unable to play it or let anyone else hear it.”

best album you have never heard!

Simon has commented on this justifiably, I omitted his name from the quote - my apologies, Simon. I was in some excitement

Norma Jean CD with Chic Organization selling on eBay at a good price of £30 GBP - considering Amazon has it from several people at 200€ euro plus!!!!

It is a great Chic CD, with all the extended mixes Norma Jean and Chic came up with. Features some classic Nile and Bernard stuff on Saturday, Sorceror and High Society. It’s got evrything Chic and Norma Jean Wright did together.

Haha!
At the end of the day, what does it really mean? I personally think it’s fairly unique if an individual can speak eloquently using any phrase, let alone these. However, at this moment in time, English language use is awful. It is absolutely horrifying what you hear today… it’s a nightmare! They shouldn’t of put this list out; instead, they should of focused on intelligible sentences by college graduates. I mean come on, using the English language is not rocket science, millions upon millions use it 24/7. With all due respect to the authors of this report…we’re good to go, IMHO.
(comment by Steve on that thread)
IT’S ALL GOOD!