Boyden, Mark

Upper Canyons - Rio Grande - 2006

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:40:00 -0000

About 10 years since I last experienced the magic of the upper canyons of the Rio Grande, I decided that we would be paddling this section of the river. This is the report of our 2006 Thanksgiving trip.

Move to Windows 7 from Windows XP

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:50:00 -0000

Notes from my switch to Windows 7 from Windows XP. A good experience overall, but not without its own gotchas, trials, and tribulations. Applied to computers that I build from scratch, and always loaded from a solid non-OEM retail (or preferably VLP) distribution.

Instant Messaging

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:30:00 -0000

Instant messaging is "interruptive e-mail", or chat. But you probably already knew that. I've used several of the many clients including Trillain Basic and Pro as well as Pidgin (formerly GAIM) and now Miranda. This focuses on the Miranda instant-messaging client.

Boquillas Canyon - Rio Grande - 2009

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:20:00 -0000

Our goal was to paddle Boquillas Canyon of the Rio Grande over Thanksgiving week, hiking some along the way. We were successful, but it was a tad more of an adventure than I originally expected. On the evening of Sunday, Nov 22, 2009, our group of 10 folks — 6 males, 4 females; some married, some family, others unrelated other than a love for the river — gathered at Rio Grande Village to begin our week-long expedition. While most seem to think this canyon is a 3-day trip, we planned on 5-1/2 days to allow for some hiking and a layover day on Thanksgiving.

xcGallery

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:20:00 -0000

xcGallery is a XOOPS photo and image gallery module for the presentation and management of site-wide and and user image galleries.

Search Engine Indexing and Submissions

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:30:00 -0000

Notes on finding the top search engines and how to get your site linked into the top search engines.

XOOPS Developer Notes

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:10:00 -0000

Notes and documentation for me specifically for writing code on XOOPS. This is NOT an exhaustive list, rather for those things I've done and want to reference. If it's of interest to everyone, then I'll contribute it to the XOOPS site.

CSS Notes

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:10:00 -0000

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a powerful framework for web pages. I've made a few notes for some of the things that I need to refer back to. Continuously updated.

Checklists: Upgrading, Deploying or Moving a XOOPS Site to Another Server

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:40:00 -0000

My checklists for upgrading, migrating, moving or deploying a XOOPS site from one server to another, whether it's from production to development to test/staging or vice-versa.

Article - XOOPS News/Blogs Module

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:00:00 -0000

The Article module (often confused with the less-robust Articles module) seems to be a very robust XOOPS module for article management for news, blogs and magazine style sites. It has fine permissions and workflow control as well as robust capabilities, blocks, and such. This module is a must have for managing news, blogs, and other time-based content.