zoid technologies builds, deploys, maintains, and supports custom information systems
the portfolio page has examples of projects zoid technologies has been involved with since forming the business in 2001. some of them are available for download and have an open source license.
'sophia' is a combination of features from "blogs" and "forums" that I have used over the years.
a new release of 'sophia' is now available for download from the sophia project page.
I am using sax-n-dotty show presenter[1] as part of the tunebox project. showpresenter has an "audience screen" which is a simple window with a right-to-left scroll that can be set to whatever text the host wants, with replacement for "trackname" and "singer" ala printf. the 2nd component involved is the "MP3+G" plugin[2] for winamp[3].
during the show, the plugin's window must be "on top" (or at least always visible)-- the audience screen cannot cover it. as it turns out the plugin I am using has an "always on top" option in the right-click (aka "context") menu. turning on this option forces the lyrics window to stay "on top" of other windows on the display.
I also had some good results from resizing the audience screen's window to be a little larger than the scroller text, and resizing the lyrics window and moving it so it is just below the audience screen-- that way when the song is playing the audience screen is visible, and the "next person" scroller will be visible even during the song.
mom forwarded this to me...
The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. He prayed feverishly for God to rescue him. Everyday he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming. Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to protect him from the elements, and to store his few possessions.
One day, after scavenging for food, he arrived home to find his little hut in flames, with smoke rolling up to the sky. He felt the worst had happened, and everything was lost. He was stunned with disbelief, grief, and anger He cried out, "God! How could you do this to me?"
Early the next day, he was awakened by the sound of a ship approaching the island! It had come to rescue him! "How did you know I was here?" asked the weary man of his rescuers. "We saw your smoke signal," they replied.
The Moral of This Story:
It is easy to get discouraged when things are going bad, but we should not lose faith, because God is at work in our lives... even in the midst of our pain and suffering. Remember that the next time your little hut seems to be burning to the ground, it just may be a smoke signal that summons the Grace of God.
for the "tunebox" project, I needed to allocate some unused space on my workstation's hdd. I was dreading the process (and the "risk") until I got some help from gunn (owner of dataslab).
a new release of projectflow is now available.
new release of projectflow available for download.
Demeter has been under development for quite some time, and the development version has now moved to "production" status.
In order to increase display performance and maximize graceful handling of problems, the feeds are now converted to "entries" when they are polled instead of every time a page is displayed. As an added benefit, an archive of entries is possible and when a feed is viewed, all of the entries that demeter has seen since the cutover will be available.
Demeter makes use of a new technology called "bed" (bbs engine daemon). "bed" is a service that currently handles some aspects of the database work with more planned in the future. This will make sites like Teos simpler since they will no longer require configuration information for 3-4 databases.
Thanks to JCA for the help with the skin, to RHK for the "bed" concept, and DKC for help with testing.
bbsengine dot org is now available, and will be the place to download open source releases of bbsengine2. It also has current "api documention" with help from phpdoc.
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