Saturday, August 30th, 2008
There I’ve said it, I’ve spent the most part of today and my afternoon yesterday theming VM. I thought, hey there’s a default template here, I’ll just modify that…
Several hours later, I’m bumping into inline styles, redundant div nesting and crappy css! FFS I just wanted to change a couple of defaults! VM team! Please update your default template to use semantic mark up!!!! I can’t put it anyother way… The default virtuemart theme is a piece of $***.
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
I use mybloglog to keep track of activity on my blog. This includes statistics on links that a user clicks on. The idea behind tracking this is pretty simple. A user clicks on a link or an ad which then gets recorded by mybloglog as an anonymous click same concept as google’s adsense tracking system.
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Screw this, I’m going .Net!!! … As in http://www.rvdavid.net that is. Due to a mishap which resulted in my domain name being held hostage by my old host 2mhost, I’ve decided to forget about the .com domain and shift to .net!
It’s been a dark couple of weeks, but now that there’s light at the end of the tunnel and the dust has settled, what emerges from the ashes is the my new domain rvdavid.net. It’s a long story but I’ll tell the tale for those who want to read. Continue on to quickly review the way that 2mhost, the cheap web hosting company, services with customers.
update: I noticed that they have added a “why am I seeing this website?” link which is a mailto link to enom’s whois-help.info. Just so it’s known, my gripe is not because my domain has expired. What makes this thing sour for me is that 2mhost had/is deliberately ignoring my attempts to contact them to achieve the resolution that I as a once paying customer deserve. - At the time, I coudln’t access the rvdavid.com domain through enom since 2mhost is the registered reseller - no other routes to take aside from dealing with 2mhost directly - who don’t answer my emails - am I asking them to bend over backwards? no way! but ffs guys, respond to emails.
You had no problems replying to emails when I was a brand new sale! anyway… the story goes…
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Monday, December 11th, 2006
“Quality Cheap Hosting” is slowly becoming one of those marketing buzzwords that no one will eventually believe. Last night was an extremely frustrating, “kill an innocent looking animal” moment for me. I had time to do some things on my Web Site, did some changes messed around with copy and when the time came to view it live, guess what? My site was down. I thought well this is probably the .01% of the time when it’s down. I decided to leave it for a few hours. Tried again, it was still down.
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Friday, November 24th, 2006
Perhaps it was just my mood this week, but I am close to dropping another client. In the past year, I’ve developed an online resource management and monitoring system for this company. For a mission critical online app, this has got to be one of the cheapest I’ve charged out.
Anyway, my old contact must have been removed. It had been months since I’ve heard anything from them and well, I was too busy to do the old marketing call and there were very rarely calls for technical support on the app - such is the benefit of creating unit tested applications that do as they should.
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