Wildnet.com is a flexible domain that is focused on effective web integrations, open source computing and content systems.
This site is currently written in Joomla and is simultaneously also hosting other domains with the Virtual Domains extension.
This is at present a testing set of sites hosted by Landis Arnold at Nomadic, Inc.
I am pleased to announce the ability and availability to install for customers the latest TurnkeyLinux builds to the Linode cloud as well as custom modifications.
We have worked with TurnkeyLinux web applications for many years and are familiar with their value and flexibility. Out of the box from TKL (TurnkkeyLinux) can be aquired via ISO and several versions of Virtual Machine as well as the Amazon Cloud install which TurnkeyLinux makes possible.
I have worked with nearly all of these variations and they do work well. Still, some 5 years ago now, I found that bringing the builds into the Linode Cloud envirionment gave me much greater possibilities from several points.
Linode exceeds in value (bang for the buck) that is in Server Performance for the cost. It also works very well in terms of being in control and able to scale on demand, either up or down, resources that are required.. It is possible to access via a range of ways, do migrations, modifications.
TurnkeyLinux builds in the Linode Sphere are all the more valuable. TKL has a great range of backup and migration capabilities, as does Linode, and they can work together. Moreover, because the TKL platform is generally platform agnostic, it is also possible to migrate away from Linode with ease should you decide to go to a different platform, host your own, or simply stash away an archive of your system.
Joomla CMS is an amazing integration platform. That said, it can be somewhat difficult to handle at times.
Joomla is extensible via hundreds extensions, plugins, modules and sub-modules, yet in other ways its default operating stack leaves aspects to be desired.
Having spent a good bit of yesterday working with 2 primary extensions to Joomla, this article is intended to be on of the first "new leaves".
Much of the time was spent exploring the WidgetKit which has been created by Yootheme. WidgetKit has a nice set of various effects, allowing Gallery's, Accordian Effects and other alternative viewing capabilities to the default Joomla Category and Article operation.
I also went back into my download stack and drummed up and eventually installed the "Zoo" Content Builder set of extensions also from YooTheme. I had spent some time with Zoo in the past so I had a working knowledge of how it should work, how it was not immediately, and what I needed to get working to do my initial tests.
The combination of the two is practical because of the third element from Yootheme, their Templates. Yootheme templates, in my opinion, are some of the nicest going and the Templates themselves integrate elements of WidgetKit. WidgetKit has built in providers for displaying Zoo. It is a good foundation (assuming the integration can stay into the future.
This is a standard Joomla Article that has been helped by the addition of a few Zoo Item Links.
First Page goes to a simple Zoo Item.
Blog Category goes to a category of Zoo Items
These were created using the JCE Editor inside which this Nice GitHub Module was also loaded.
I found these on GitHub by Searching Yootheme
Odoo Installation and Management Services
We are skilled and and able to bring your business effectively to the Cloud or backoffice server using open source Odoo ERP and a variety of complimentary systems.
Our fundamental approach is to get you setup on either Amazon's AWS Cloud (international) or the Linode Cloud in the United States. We have found incredible performance gains in the last few years and are happy to share this with you.
Odoo 8.0 is a vibrant and effective ERP system which will help you efficiently manage your business. Additionally we tie the system generally together with the Magento E-Commerce system and the Joomla CRM system. (All of this is optional).
I am pleased to announce the ability and availability to install for customers the latest TurnkeyLinux builds to the Linode cloud as well as custom modifications.
We have worked with TurnkeyLinux web applications for many years and are familiar with their value and flexibility. Out of the box from TKL (TurnkkeyLinux) can be aquired via ISO and several versions of Virtual Machine as well as the Amazon Cloud install which TurnkeyLinux makes possible.
I have worked with nearly all of these variations and they do work well. Still, some 5 years ago now, I found that bringing the builds into the Linode Cloud envirionment gave me much greater possibilities from several points.
Linode exceeds in value (bang for the buck) that is in Server Performance for the cost. It also works very well in terms of being in control and able to scale on demand, either up or down, resources that are required.. It is possible to access via a range of ways, do migrations, modifications.
TurnkeyLinux builds in the Linode Sphere are all the more valuable. TKL has a great range of backup and migration capabilities, as does Linode, and they can work together. Moreover, because the TKL platform is generally platform agnostic, it is also possible to migrate away from Linode with ease should you decide to go to a different platform, host your own, or simply stash away an archive of your system.
It is tremendously complicated these days keeping track of what you are learning.
As an example, I am diving into the realm of dropping pre-built Drive Images into Cloud Instances. I need to keep track of the difference between a bzip2 and tar file, and how to decompress them. Very nice people have commented their answers in various places. Answers like:
bzip2 -d filename.bz2
tar cvjf myfile.tar.bz *.txt
Certainly there are many more of these as well. I likely have 20 Tabs open talking about all the various approaches, but that is not the point now.
The point now is simply, how to "keep track" and if possible, how to perhaps help other people in similar quests.
3 Basic Elements I am finding useful:
There are others. They all deserve attention, but the point is not the program but the work.
Nothing is perfect and no integrations, yet, are perfect. I do also use
All are also excellent programs:
Like threads in a spider web though, you need to have your own system of reference to keep them together. Things are getting better, but, there is still you in the middle.
Getting things done.. a book and a mantra. The program did not work very well unfortunately (may have had another name - written for PC Tablet computers in about 2005 ?). It should have worked better. The concept was incredible. It just had big, in fact large and untenable, memory leaks.
I have put together today an extensive and effective way to use FileMaker Pro 12 as a content editing tool for Magento. This has been on my "to do list" for a long time, but after exploring this actively for a few days, I was excited to have it come together in a real and immediately useful way.
The way to do this involves
Setting up an active ODBC connection to Magento
Building an Empty FileMaker Database.
Importing One field from the Catalog_Product_Entity field.
Building a series of relations to bring forth the critical Data for each the additional information on each field.
The difficulty in this is the exploration in setting it up properly.
Having set it up now for myself and tested it extensively I would be in a position to help other clients set up this method for FileMaker editing.
Advantages
The primary advantage to this approach is the speed with which the Database can be "Selected From" and Reviewed and Updated.
Spell Checking is "built in" to FileMaker and brings to light otherwise hard to see errors.
Wild Article Landing is a bit like a landing strip for sparrows. Somewhat incongruous. That said, there is a place for wings and perhaps this is also one. Technically it is a landing page looking for a home.
I am reminded of a favorite Poem.
The Sea Battle
An American aircraft carrier
and a Gothic cathedral
simultaneously sank each other
in the middle of the Pacific.
To the last
the young curate played on the organ.
Now aeroplanes and angels hang in the air
and have nowhere to land.
by Günter Grass
This is a holder article