Submitted to the Factor Prize. I will be updating the entry over the next week or two. Let me know what you think:
A More Expanded Portfolio of My Work:
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Third day calls for Chozeh
Give me revelation
Show me what to do
Cause I’ve been tryin to find my way
I havent got a clueTell me should I stay here
Or do I need to move?
Give me revelation
I’ve got nothing without you
I’ve got nothing without you
A call for the Prophetic Nabia from Matisyahu. (From album “Light”, song “Silence”)
Yih’yu l’ratzon imrei fi V’hegyon libi l’fanecha, adonai tzuri
Yih’yu l’ratzon imrei fi V’hegyon libi l’fanecha, adonai tzuriI will crush my fantasy,
bring me olive oil crushed for his majesty
to shine a warmth into eternity, this is an eternal decree,
We’ll dance like flames for there’s no gravity,
for now I’m just a candle trying to stay lit in this windy night.Got to crush my fantasies of how this life is supposed to be
Bring my broken heart to an invisible king with a hope one day you might answer me, so I pray don’t you abandon me.
Your silence kills me;
I wouldn’t have it any other way.Is it wrong to think you might speak to me?
You might speak, would it be words and what would you say?It’s so heavy a heavy price to pay
your silence.
UPDATE Jan 5th – ATTN: New Version Users. (Kinamu 1.5.2)
Kinamu can be updated to run properly with both plugins integrated into the same installation. (You can now delete kinamu.php and kinamu/ if you had previously done an install like below)
Make a backup of your current SugarSoapUsers.php in the soap directory, install the new KINAMU plugin in your sugar module panel, then restore the SugarSoapUsers.php file that you backed up and add two requires at the end for KINAMUSoapTypes.php and KINAMUSoapSugarUsers.php:
require_once(’soap/KINAMUSoapTypes.php’);
require_once(’soap/KINAMUSoapSugarUsers.php’);
Then install the outlook plugin, change your path from [url]/kinamu.php to [url]/soap.php and you are back up and running without the custom mods, with Joomla Portal authentication and Kinamu.
BTW, to those at KINAMU, great work, and very nice new features. For me, the ability to create a Case from an email was a HUGE deal. Thanks!
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OK, another one for my geek friends. I have SugarCRM running at work. A while back i installed the Joomla Sugar Cases plugin and it works beautifully. Customers get added to Sugar and get a portal active login assigned to them in Sugar, then they can log in my joomla website (without me adding them to Joomla) and see their cases – history, leave notes for a case, and even initiate a case, all from Joomla.
Recently I found the KINAMU outlook connector for SugarCRM on Sugarforge. Anxious to see how this would improve productivity I loaded the plugin, only to discover that it modifies the core SoapSugarUsers file, causing my other plugin to fail.
Soooo, being a clever man of hacking ability, I decided to make a seperate instance of the SOAP namespace that would authenticate and manage the kinamu plugin as a stand alone. This resolved my problem and allowed both plugins to continue to run. Here is how I did it:
There was only one file change I had to make. The new namespace cannot reference a valid ip check, so I commented out that portion of the SoapSugarUsers on line 172
Then install the plugin into Outlook and the connection should work fine. To get outlook properly connected go to tools>Options>KINAMU Connects and the Destination should be : http://[your base url for sugar]/kinamu.php
Hope this helps someone. Let me know.
I have continued to paint regularly this fall. Thought I would upload a few for friends to take a look. I also have a couple more underway that I will get loaded soon:
This is one of those things that seems like it should be simple, but very few examples are given that are straight forward and easy to follow. There are lots of examples of 30 days ahead of the current date/time, but here is a simple example of getting that data from a database and then calculating the date ahead.
$date = The value of the database from your query
$daysahead = The number of days ahead you want to calulate
$final_date = date(“m/d/Y”, strtotime($date) + (86400 * $daysahead));echo $final_date;
Explanation:
The date object gets your desired format passed as the first variable, then we invoke strtotime with the database value for the date we are starting with, then add the number of seconds in a day times the number of days ahead you are looking for. This would also work of course for previous days by changing the “+” to a “-”
Hope this helps someone.
Some paintings from this summer:
If you would like to dramatically improve the viewing process you should consider downloading and installing the Cool Iris plugin for your browser:
Cooliris
I spent the weekend in Asheville with Alysen, her sister Rachel, and her boyfriend Jason. We had a great time hanging out, going to hear the drum circle, listening to Jazz at Tressa’s and playing Chickenfoot.
On Saturday, the group indulged me by going on the Studio tour of the River Arts District.
There were some great studios there, including many sophisticated crafts people…interestingly several great fiber artists, and a couple of artists working in encaustic. One artist that caught my attention was Carol Bomer. Her work was thought provoking and interesting. The surfaces of her work were sophisticated and beautiful, with mark making akin to Cy Twombly and think rich textures like Larry Rivers…and anyone who knows me knows very well that this combination makes me smile.
There were a couple of other interesting artists there, both working in The Wedge…forgive me that i cannot recall their names, but one was working in what appeared to be photo emulsion on drawing paper exposed with images on people and then drawn on top of. I found this work to be beautifully made and subtle in surface and style. Showing side by side with her work was a portrait painter that was akin to Alice Neel’s work. Though perhaps too close in that approach, I found the paintings beautifully seen and quite nice.
If you have a chance in the near future, be sure to spend some time in the River Arts District in Asheville, worth your time for sure.
Finally, we spent some time in Blue Spiral 1. This gallery was full of intriging and world class art. I was impressed with the consistency in excellence throughout the work and the presentation. Showing in the main gallery were John L Cleaveland, Jr and George Peterson. Cleaveland’s pantings were uniquely southern in feel, with the most interesting being the large oils of trains. Peterson’s sculptures from large pieces of wood were complex in their surfaces and textures, and without reading the descriptions of the media, you would never be completely sure how they were made.
Truly exceptional work
Alysen and I watched Michael J Fox’s ABC special last night on hope and optimism. One thing that I found very interesting was his link between happiness (bliss) and connectedness. He suggested that in his experience traveling around the world searching for what made people, villages communities and countries happy and hopeful was whether or not they are connected with others around them.
One of the examples that hit home for me was an interview he did with a group of dairy farmers. He visited with them in the Hudson Valley of NY and discovered that in order to maximize their ability to survive, they had banded together as a group of dairy farmers and were living communally. This expanded not just to their lives, but to their business as well, having invested in their own bottling machine and advertising of their own “brand” of milk and produce.
Just more evidence that everyone around us are becoming more and more connected, through technology, through churches, through community organizations, and now to some degree out of necessity of survival.
I for one think this is the best development in our recent history, what do you think?
