End of the Road, Start of a New Journey
I’ll be making some changes to this site which should result in me making more use of it. As much as I like the Textpattern as a CMS, it is a bit too much for a blog. I’ve been looking around the place and came across Jekyll which I have found to be just right. As a result i will be converting this site to use Jekyll in the next few weeks.
I have already been using Jekyll for two other sites I am running. Both for different reasons.
Affiliate Marketing
The first one is an experiment in Affiliate Marketing. I’d like to see if I can drive some traffic to it and make at least one sale. The real objective to it is to use it to understand more about SEO. The site is called Stuff We Reviewed and I think I picked the wrong item to put on it, but it’s there. Only three articles at the moment, but more to come. I make money if people click through on the site and buy stuff from Amazon.
The site is about Kenwood Food Mixers. i have a general comparison page of four mixers called The Kenwood Chef Range and two separate articles. One is on the Kenwood Chef Classic KM366 and the other is about the Kenwood Chef Titannium KM020 . One thing for certain is that I have a much better appreciation of these mixers. I might even buy one myself.
Anyway it is really all in aid of affiliate marketing and learning about SEO.
Oracle Primavera P6
I have started another site which has just a couple of articles on it at the moment. It is inspired by Git Ready which is a site about using the git source control system. My site is about Oracle Primavera P6. It is called Using P6 I have three areas, one for Users, one for Programmers and one for Administrators. the idea is that I put tips up there as often as I can, along with any useful internet resources to do with Primavera P6.
Goodbye Apache, Hello Nginx
I’ve tried using nginx on my laptop and it seems a lot faster than Apache. As a result I’ve ditched Apache from the laptop and will be doing the same to my server. I’m moving from Apache to nginx. I hope later on to put Yaws on it, which is written in Erlang.
Other Ideas that May or May Not Happen
I’ll just list these.
- Get the Workpattern rubygem to a state I dare let others use it. This is a gem that performs date calculations taking acount of resting and working times that can be defined to the minute.
- Have a go at an application that allows you to schedule when to tweet on twitter. the idea is you send a tweet off and it tweets again at certain intervals. It’s for globals to catch the world at the right time of their day.
- Look at the P6 Configuration Transporter. This could go one of two ways. the most likely is nowhere. the others are the original intent. This was to suck the configuration out of one P6 database and shove it in another. great for testing as well as applying the same configuration for different instances around the world.
- P6 Configuration Documenter. This is an idea I’ve had a while to go into a P6 Database and produce documentation about the way it’s configured. The second phase was to apply further words to it.
Well that’s all folks