Our offices will be closed from December 23 until January 4 2010 so that our employees may spend the holidays with their loved ones.  If you have an emergency during that time, please contact Ryan Meinzer on his cell phone, otherwise call our office line and leave a message and we will return your call when we return to the office in the new year.  Merry Christmas to you and yours and have a blessed 2010.

After a lot of work and consideration, we are going to plug #2 on LF Durrell -ABC-.  The casing, despite several squeeze jobs is just in too bad of shape to be worth attempting to fix, like the previous operator kept trying to do.  We will be filing the intent to plug within the next couple of weeks with work starting sometime right after the holidays.  I will post some pictures of the work once it gets going.

I get asked this question a lot: “How can I force phpMyAdmin to run over https ‘SSL’?” It is basically an issue to deal with security. Since phpMyAdmin deals with directly accessing your database, it only makes sense you want to make it as secure as you can. While running over SSL ‘HTTPS’ is not the total solution, it does help. So, here is how to make it run over SSL.

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After finding a couple of strange bugs, and ensuring the system is ready for WordPress 2.8, USecureX 0.2 is finally released.  It contains just minor bug fixes, and also removed the static reference to wp-content for those of you that have changed your WP directory structure.  As always, let me know if you run into anything and need some help.

Most if not all of my plugins will work in 2.8 without any modifications, but I am running double checks as fast as I can just to be safe.

It has been a little while, but I have released BookX 0.3.   It is not a huge change, mostly a couple of bug fixes, but also verified complete compatibility with the upcoming version 2.8.  So Enjoy!

My good friend Kat over at Self Symmetry recently posted a really nice blog entry thanking me for some work I did for her on that website.  So here is the post, not to toot my own horn, but hopefully get some of our friends more interested in a great yoga teacher! ~ Ryan

With the help of an amazing IT guy, Ryan Meinzer, I am proud to announce the relaunch of my website.  Actually, it’s  just the shopping cart area of my site.  BUT — I do hope you’ll check it out (and Ryan…he’s fast, efficient, easy to understand (he is an IT guy afterall), and can totally hook you up if you need any help in this department.  And, he writes a really good blog too!)

Getting back to me…haha  As you can tell by the name of my company, Self Symmetry, I’m all about finding balance.  I believe that when you find balance; physically, mentally, and spiritually, that you are completely and wholly healthy!  I’m also all about feeling good.   If we can get ourselves feeling good all the time, then our lives will be free flowing and easy.  (I’m not saying that we shouldn’t experience any other emotion, but just that our dominate state should be good and positive.)

With my strong belief in finding balance and feeling good I teach yoga, make jewelry, and now this blog.  If you’re in Dallas/Plano, I would love to have you come take a class of mine.  See my schedule for details.  If you’re not in Dallas, then just go check out a class in your ‘hood.  It’s really amazing, transforming, and healing.

If you’re interested in jewelry, browse around my new shopping cart.  I hand make everything and use semi precious gemstones.  Gemstones have healing properties to them.  They are from the earth, so they hold all kinds of positive energy…making you look good and feel good!  I attach a card to each piece of jewelry describing the stones used and what they do for you energetically.  Because of this, they make awesome, thoughtful gifts (Mother’s Day coming up…hint, hint).  However, if you don’t wear much jewelry, check out BE Charmed!  Who can’t use some extra positive energy?  Side note:  Guys…I don’t have any man jewelry on my site, but I can make you something.  I’ve made several pieces for guys so just email me and we’ll come up with something really manly!

If you’re reading this, then you found my blog.  Congrats!  I would say this blog is on the spiritual side.  It’s about my attempt to live life to the fullest, and all the things that I’ve learned and am still learning.

So there you have it…my shameless self promotion.  I hope you leave my yoga class (or any yoga class) feeling good.  I hope you feel good wearing my jewelry (I know you’ll look good!), and I hope reading my blog leaves you feeling inspired, hopeful, and optimistic!

And Ryan, you rock!  I can’t thank you enough!

Balanced and feeling good – Love, Kat

MultiX is a lightweight script to allow for the seamless administration of multiple WordPress websites that can reside on different servers and databases.  This plugin is a way for those of us that need to administer multiple WordPress websites but don’t have the luxury of having all those sites on the same server or database.  I have a lot of WordPress sites I admin for people and am getting more every day.  It is a complete annoyance to have to re-login to each and every one of them, so this plugin makes it to where a trust relationship is set up, and viola, now you can move back and forth at will.

Features

◊ Easy to setup and install
◊ Secure random trusted key method of authentication

BookX 0.1 is finally released.  BookX creates an easy way to give your site visitors a peek at your recommended books.  Using only ISBN numbers, it gets the information from Barnes and Noble (http://www.bn.com) and stores the information locally to both speed up the response time, but also to not bog down their servers with repetetive requests.  BookX creates a widget for your sidebar, a list view, and detail view, all customizable from the easy to use admin interface.

Features

◊ Uses only ISBN to fill in all the important information about your books
◊ Creates a Detail Page View, List View, and a Widget all from the same plugin
◊ Each view is totally customizable from an easy to use admin interface
◊ Lots of controls over the look and feel of the generated code through the admin interface
◊ Stores most (just not the image) of the data on your server for fast results and better control

ThemeX 0.5 is now ready for download and installation.  Here is the change log:

• Fixed bug #27

Just a bug fix, squashing the last known one.  It was a tough one to track down but thanks for bearing with me.

Well, it has been about a year since I officially stopped working on PHPX.  And last week someone came forward and asked to take over the project.  It has been a very interesting thought process on this since it is a lot more complex than I originally thought it would be.

First, there is the problem moving trademarks and copyrights.  PHPX is a trademark, PHPX is also a 501(c) non-profit dedicated to the distribution of free and quality software in order to better facilitate communication between communities of people in a virtual environment.  Sounds all official doesn’t it?  Well, sadly, it is.

I want to give over PHPX for someone that cares about it to develop it, but I am not really sure how to disentangle myself from all the legal stuff that goes along with it.  Perhaps I should just fork it and let them take over that.

What do you think?