Facebook, the new standard…

I initially hesitated to write this post but I later decided to write it. I was discussing this will a friend the other day. You see I needed to buy some hosting space and a domain name for a site I am working on, I did not want to use my usual hosting service. I wanted a better package (who doesn’t).

So I went to Google and I started the search. I was so happy to find a couple of hosting packages that were fantastic. I think I had 3 or so. Okay now I have 3 very attractive hosting packages from different companies. They were almost the same in the features they promise to offer.

What was the driving chose behind my choice? Have u guessed it yet. Facebook “talaaa” let me explain.

I say recommendations given on all the sites from their customers, I even saw all the awards the various sites had won. The thing is there was no way I could authenticate those testimonials and awards with a very short time. What made me choose what I chose was because that particular company had a Facebook page. Voila! I quickly went to the facebook page to check out the comments on the service they were providing for people and I was really impressed. I actually believed what they said on the page.

Facebook has come to stay, I believe it is mainly because facebook tries it possible best to prevent spam and also authenticates it users. Very soon all companies, individuals will validate people, events, and societies on facebook. It is going to be the standard; it’s more than just social networking it’s a social directory.

Drupal School Site. St Louis Jubilee School Drupal in Africa (Ghana)

Here come another drupal success story. The building of St. Louis Jubilee School. This is a primary and JSS school (Junior High School) in Kumasi. Kumasi is a city in Ghana(West-Africa). The site is a basic website with normal functionality. The website contains information about the school and the activities of the school. Some of the features that allow the website to stand out from the rest of it’s kind is the following:
1. Online Results System
2. User and email Account for the staff
3. Accounts for the Students
4. Events/ News and Articles organization
5. Galleries
I just want to go through how I built the website. This is a write or some sort of documentation about how the tools,modules and how the site was built. We all know that drupal is a very powerful tool. I even called it the “drupal framework”. I see it as more of a framework that a CMS. We usually see it being used for high end sites like New York Observer, Eureka and the rest. I must say that they are really performing a awesome job with those site. I have actually learnt a lot from these sites and how the developers built it. In this case drupal is being used for a lower end site in terms of functionality , if I may say so. (A high school web site/CMS)

Connecting Nokia 6230 to Ubuntu 7.10 and using it as a gprs/edge connection. 1

Firstly, let me apologize for not posting for a while, i was finishing up my semester examinations.

Okay let me get on with the post. Connecting Nokia 6230 to Ubuntu 7.10 .

Before you start make sure that the phone you are using has a working gprs connecting and you can browse using the mobile phone. After that is settled make sure that the you have settled all billing issues with your subscriber and you know how the billing is done. Then make sure you get you DKU-2 cable for the nokia 6230.

NB:I have used only DKU-2 and Nokia 6230 and ubuntu 7.10 so i can only vouch for these.

1. Connect the Nokia 6230 to the computer using your cable. After which you type this command.

“lsusb”

Send emails in PHP-Using PEAR extensions II

 

In the previous post we looked at managing and installing PHP Extension and Application Repository (PEAR) packages, as well as how to use such a package from a PHP script. Now we will look at some of the other packages in the PEAR library.

The packages required for this column are available from www.pear.php.net.

To install them into your local PHP system, copy all packages from the PEAR site into a temporary directory, then type:

$ pear install

Where <package filename> is the filename of the package you are installing. The packages are stored in tar gzipped format, so you may get an error like this:

The extension ‘zlib’ couldn’t be found.

Send emails in PHP-Using PEAR extensions

The PHP Extension and Application Repository (PEAR) is an open source structured library of packages for PHP developers. These packages provide routines which solve problems PHP developers regularly face: sending structured e-mail (such as an HTML attachment), interacting with different databases from a single script, error handling, recovery and logging.
The base installation of PEAR is shipped with PHP itself. The programmers working on PEAR have developed a method of installing new packages and keeping your existing installation up-to-date, called the PEAR package manager.

PEAR package manager
If you are using a version of PHP prior to 4.3, you will need to install the PEAR package manager. UNIX users can run the following command:
lynx -source http://go-pear.org/ | /path/to/php

This downloads the source of the page at http://go-pear.org and runs it with the PHP binary (replace /path/to with the path to PHP on your system).