CustomerCentrix - Business

New Site and Product

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:09:45 -0600

We have launched our new site to prepare for the coming load testing product. Get ready for LoadStorm!

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Google test page

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:55:58 -0600

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Performancing editor with Drupal

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 19:55:50 -0700

Here are a few notes about using Performancing For Firefox with Drupal. When I first installed it, it only worked with the admin user (1st user added) which has special privileges. I thought at first that other users would not work because we generally have a space in the user name "Firstname Last", but this was not the problem. The problem was with enabled modules and permissions. Both the blog and blogapi modules must be enabled. Then, using administer >> access control >> blog module >> edit own blog >> check this for users who will be using performancing. The last thing to do is in administer >> settings >> blogapi >> Blog types >> choose one or more type. We haven't used personal blog (or any blog) for our business sites. Even though we are really blogging, it is just called other things in Drupal (like stories and pages).

Alltel spins off wireline business

Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:34:48 -0700

Here is a news story about our largest customer, Alltel. Not sure what effect that it will have on us, but likely there will be some contract adjustments next year.

Social bookmarks and internet memory

Mon, 05 Dec 2005 12:02:49 -0700

Although not new, two web tools are now available that solve problems and change the way that we think about the internet. Del.icio.us is a free web service that now has a broad following and good support from 3rd party software and services. Its purpose is very simple: social bookmarking. The basics is that your bookmarks or favorites (internet addresses) are saved to the web site and available to the rest of the world. You categorize them as you wish with tags. Tags are similar to folders except that they are not hierarchical, so a bookmark can have multiple tags and tags have no specific relation to one another.

Beginning AdSense with Drupal

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 12:03:40 -0700

We added the Drupal module for AdSense today to this site and are planning to put it on some others as well. It can be used as a Drupal block (sidebar) or embedded in content. Embedding seems like it would work well for popular pages, home page between excerpts or at the bottom.

Zero Cash . . .

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 10:15:36 -0700

Interesting series called Zero Cash, A Little Talent and 30 Days by Jennifer Laycock, who writes for Search Engine Guide. It is a practical story about making money on the internet.

Links to the articles are available here.

Customizing Drupal for Site-Centrix.com

Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:23:48 -0700

How to build a custom version of Drupal? We have been implementing Drupal for customers and ourselves, and each time make some of the same module and theme additions and settings changes. Today, we are making a first try at a customized version (starting with Drupal 4.6.3) called Site Centrix.

The initial target for this customization is small customer sites or internal sites used for advertising with AdSense or affiliates.

Search and Replace "Drupal" with "SiteCentrix" in all files. Match case and use whole word to avoid changing code.

Replace the default /favicon.ico with the SpreadFireFox theme version.

Making money in the software business

Tue, 08 Nov 2005 11:51:19 -0700

Here is an article from Manageability titled 101 Ways to Make Money off Open Source. There aren't actually 101 items listed yet, but still there are some good ideas.

More AJAX info

Wed, 02 Nov 2005 08:23:27 -0700

Some good information is available at ajaxpatterns.org.

Projects in SugarCRM

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:31:03 -0600

Problems with the current release 3.5.1a that we have installed:

Project name does not display in list of project tasks.
Project List does not display at all, nothing shows below the search box.
Project Task edit edit does not work, the form is cut off after Order field and the rest of the page fails to display.
Project Task dates do not save properly (or maybe it is displaying that is a problem). Either way, sometimes the dates change from what was saved.
Project Tasks do not display on the home page.

Fixed Plesk again

Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:45:36 -0600

Current problem to fix is that the mysql version has reverted back to 3.23, making SugarCRM fail in many areas and the Plesk console not work at all (it gives a connection refused message). Plesk update seems to have been the culprit, although I specifically did not update anything related to mysql or plesk itself. Currently mysql is showing:

mysql> status -------------- mysql Ver 11.18 Distrib 3.23.58, for redhat-linux-gnu (i386)


Connection id:          36326

Current database:

Current user:           admin@localhost

Current pager:          stdout

Using outfile:          ''



More on Plesk/MySQL upgrade
Sun, 02 Oct 2005 12:42:20 -0600
In a previous posting, I gave details about a frustrating but presumed successful upgrade to MySQL.  Now, I am not sure that it was - at least as far as Plesk is concerned.  I am not sure what triggered this after it worked for a couple of weeks, but the Plesk control panel is no longer accessible.  MySQL and all other applications seem to be working without any problems.  A server restart has no effect, and 1and1's support is unhelpful at best.  At this point, the most likely problem seems to be MySQL.  Not that it isn't working, but that Plesk won't start properly because of some db access issue.


Drupal - taxonomy as menu block
Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:09:20 -0600
The task is to create a block that contains a menu built automatically from a hierarchical taxonomy.  Breadcrumb trail would be nice, but is optional.  The menu module or blocks will do this, but as a mostly manual process of building a set of links into a hierarchy that looks and works like other menus in Drupal.  This seems to be the quickest and easiest way for relatively static taxonomy or one where you want categories commingled with items from forums or aggregator or other areas of Drupal.
But my plan for this site is to create a taxonomy, and I would like to have the menu automatically built for this.  There appears to be several candidates in the contributed modules list on the Drupal site.


Drupal Themes
Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:32:52 -0600
The default (bluemarine) theme in Drupal seems like a bad choice, but programmers, even good ones, aren't known for their graphic design talents.  The other 3 that are part of the default installation are better, and I have chosen the pushbutton for this site and am trying the chameleon, interlaced and spreadfirefox themes on other sites.  These seem to work fine, but have various quirks with headers and styles.  I am wanting a simple, preferably tableless theme as a starting point for building some custom themes.
I also tried argeebee briefly, but it doesn't seem to work in Firefox.  So, in addition to the four available in the base install: