The big talk in our wonderful city today was about the "Sears Tower terror plot" that did not happen, thank goodness. I am about two blocks away from the Sears Tower four days a week.

In other news, XOOPS is going to release XOOPS version 2.0.14 on Monday which among several things, will bring LDAP Authentication support to XOOPS. Yeah! Time to get ready to play with the new update before I push it to my production sites.

If all goes well tomorrow on the golf course aka, I come back in a good mood ready to put in a few hours of work...I will also check out the newly released alpha of Tasks Pro 1.7. I have been longing for tagging for awhile now and I know Alex King will not disappoint.

[tags]Chicago, Sears Tower, XOOPS, Tasks Pro[/tags]

Time for a beer! Nothing like waking up at 5am and putting in multiple hours of "work" before you actually start your day job. To begin the day...I could not sleep (because of the humidity) so I decide to get up early and check my consulting company's email figuring I can do a few simple tasks before I start my day job. No new messages. I think to myself that I should have something...I should at least have my daily tasks email from Tasks Pro that is sent every morning at 430am. I then look into the problem and notice I cannot send mail either....everyone's favorite 550 smtp error. I call my hosting company and have them look into it. I start to sweat because this is affecting my entire VPS...all my domain names, and all my clients. After getting disconnected four times from my hosting company but finally get a call back from the last person I talk to and he assures me he is looking into it. An hour goes by and no fix. I call back and talk to someone else who is now also looking into ... [more]

The perfectionist in me wants to wait to introduce a new design, etc until everything is perfectly in place. But recently, I was reminded that "real artists ship".

I am starting to get more consulting business and I was unhappy with my business web site design. It was dark, uninviting, and just felt heavy. I needed something lighter, brighter, and in typical Jen factor...minimal. Enter the latest design: SDAC Inc. I still have a lot to do...a lot of rewriting of text, adding more graphics to bring more interest in, and to convert my Photoshoped header into bits and pieces controlled completely by CSS, but I had to take a good look at my priorities.

Usually when people procrastinate, they surf the web, clean, etc, but me...when I get really busy, I redesign. When I have a big design project coming up, I instantly look at my web sites and look to see what I can redo. Once I got several hours into this redesign, I realized I had to cut back on some of the things I wanted to implement because it was more important that I get ... [more]