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Web Development for Nonprofits
We at Agaric consider nonprofit organizations to be one of our core constituencies, although a majority of our work is probably for groups without official 501c3 nonprofit status, for businesses, and for individuals. We try to stay in tune with the needs of organizations for good, whatever their tax filing status.
Domain Name Registrars
New option, new registrar reselling through Drak.net's provider: http://www.domainspricedright.com/ Nope, bad:
This afternoon, WildWest Domains (GoDaddy) refused to cancel us at the end of our billing period for the services in June, and instead canceled as of that very moment. "Domains Priced Right" is GoDaddy. It's their reseller account that they merge people into after their reseller account is "abandoned".
Apparently, they were not all that enthusiastic regarding the reason we were leaving.
It was quite an...ah... enlightening conversation. :)
No, I think it was vindictive - We paid $229.00 for the super reseller thingy a year, so they kept $40 of the money we directly paid them and nuked the service early. Then we got around $100 a month in commission because we had quite a number of folks on there, and we priced it pretty low since that was the purpose of getting the Interface, and they'll keep that couple of hundred dollars as well.
Yeppers, all in all, pretty unethical, but not unexpected considering their reputation. They're a hard sell, shove it down your throat, our way or the highway kind of company, and it's pretty well known that ceasing to do business with them is not really something that they like.
So, $250 lost, lesson learned, and I know what registrar I won't recommend to anyone. :)
Current domain name registrar:
1&1 ~$6/year but I don't think they extend a year when you transfer in? In any case, the price is to draw people in and get them to buy cheap, but terrible, hosting services. Just doesn't seem sustainable...
Best Bets
From going through the "list of ICANN accredited registrars" in alphabetical order:
- BlueRazor ~$7.25 -- they don't do bulk management/discounts at this time
- Second Tier from ICANN list:
- FoxEdge.com ~$7
- Answerable - tried, terrible control panel, ~$6.99 (looks like a reseller)
Note: tons on the iCANN list are fronts for snapdomains and Namescout.
Other Options
- DrakNet Domains - $8.80 a year ( http://www.draknetdomains.com/ )
- Nearly Free Speech - $7.50; they're actually reselling from Public Domain Registry, which is a front for ResellerClub.com, a Directi business (as is Answerable); the best it gets, at $3,000 up front, is $6.49 for a regular domain.
- OpenWebSource.com ~$8.88 - right cause, but I think just a reseller for myorderbox.com
Investigated and Unsuitable
- GKG.net - no services whatsoever, forwarding or even assigning DNS records costs extra. "Host elsewhere" is allegedly free, so this may be an option for VPS hosted sites where we manage the nameserver.
- ResellOne (Everyone's Internet) ~$6.50 -- put down a huge deposit to get that rate, and their interface, the technology on their own site, was so bad I wouldn't trust them with a dime.
Tried and Evil
- Active-Domain
- Getting evil: DomainSite.com
Do it ourselves
- Figure out what's involved
- Get ICANN accredited
- Promote the development of open source registrar software
- Is TDomain manager what we seek?
- Or any of these Address Management links?
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Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Link to twitter status message from Drupal twitter module repost
Link twitter status messages to the twitter account display of these status messages.
complex view example
<?php
$view = new view;
$view->name = 'contributions';
$view->description = 'Articles and Commentary';
$view->tag = 'content type';
$view->view_php = '';
$view->base_table = 'node';
$view->is_cacheable = FALSE;
$view->api_version = 2;
$view->disabled = FALSE; /* Edit this to true to make a default view disabled initially */
Installing Tweetdeck on Ubuntu 9.04 64bit
So you wanna get TweetDeck rocking out on Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit?
First, you have to get Adobe Air installed:
Grabbed most of the important bits from http://www.bauer-power.net/2009/05/getting-adobe-air-to-work-in-ubuntu-9...
SSH agent forwarding on Mac OS X debugging
ssh -v agaric-production
OpenSSH_5.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7l 28 Sep 2006
debug1: Reading configuration data /Users/ben/.ssh/config
debug1: Applying options for agaric-production
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
debug1: Connecting to agaricdesign.com [66.135.37.243] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
Adding (verifying) your Drupal site to Google's Webmaster Tools
I don't see an API for your entire Google account coming soon, or Google should already be able to skip the verification step for sites using Google analytics.
So the easiest way is to make a new node or create a new path alias to an existing page with the path that google wants: googleed909f3ff5bcb87e.html in this case.
And delete it afterward.
Views 2 Theming - The Presentation
the slides for my presentation on Views2 Theming given at design 4 drupal at the MIT Stata Center on June 13th, 2009 in room 141....
