I have some photos of an oil drilling rig near the ranch.
This is a view of the derek
This is another view
Oil Tanks
View from the intersection of wormley Lane and FM 153
Huston-Tillotson University Athletic Web Site
2009
11.10
11.10
I finally designed a web site for Huston-Tillotson University that I am prod of. It may be the last in-house web design that I will do for HT. Soon the site may be out-sourced to a development company. So this is why I did some screen shots for my blog.
HT Development Web Site
The site is done using Dot Net Nuke. This is a skin design for DNN 5.3. I started using DNN when I first came to HT back in 2004. At the time the university was using version 2 so I have migrated and grown to love and hate DNN over the last 5 years. I have come to the conclusion that no content management system is fool proof and easy for the end user.
HT Athletic home page
For the athletic home page I had the requirements to have two menus on the page. The athletic department wanted a set of images and menus to appear on all pages. This was the foundation of the site. The main page has static content that is updated rarely. The main page needed to show athletic department links on the left side of the page and the right side shows all of the sports divided by men and women categories.
HT Volleyball main page
The volleyball main page shows a typical sports site layout. In DNN I created each sport as a sub portal of the main athletics site. This allows for the administration to be managed efficiently but allows local administration to be owned by the head coach of each sport.
HT Athletics forms and lists
One of the nice improvements in DNN 5.2 is what use to be called User Defined Tables, Forms and Lists. You can create CSS styled lists or tables that can also be transformed into data entry forms. I love this feature but it is not easy for end users to configure and use.
EOL CentOS Server build
2009
10.17
10.17
I am building a CentOS 5.3 server. Here are my install notes and pictures. I started on Saturday October 17 at 5:00 PM. Below is a screen shot of the RAID5 configuration.
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Reconsider Columbus Day
2009
10.13
10.13
OK enough is enough. Reconsider Columbus Day is another campaign to right the wrongs of history. Currently Columbus Day to most folks is really just another day to go to the mall and shop. Here in the US we need to ban all holidays or Holy Days as a matter of separating church and state. If we all can just learn to live for the future and escape our past we will all be happy living in a world free of resentment and pent up anger over history. Why not have everyday be a celebration for humanity? Why not stop creating the wrong history today and start creating the right future now?
Wormley Image Archive is finally back online
2009
10.12
10.12
I have moved my image archive from the hosted site on Site Ground to my own server. The Wormley Archive is an experiment on for me learning about web technologies. I was testing the hosed services on Site Ground to see if it was worth the extra expense of running my own servers. It took about two years for me to reach the limit of what Site Ground offers. I knew that I would find the limit to hosted services and I did. site ground offered unlimited storage so I copied all my 22 GB of images to their servers. I found out that the unlimited storage did not include muitimedia files and Site Ground consideres JPG files multi media. I also reached the PHP memory limit on their shared hosted server/ They wanted me to use a private hosted server for more money. I decided to move my site to my own server.
So now the complete personal images that I have taken and some of my close friends and relatives have taken of me and my family are on line. I will keep them on this server and will finally start to organize them and add to the archive.