Category: Developing Tech

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Obvious Solution To The FAQ Quagmire

Knee Deep In The Hooplah

OK, I have been about knee deep in the hooplah that is trying to administer a database over a network. To all you “real” sysadmins out there: I salute you. Having become a generalist rather than a specialist, there are certain skillsets that I am simply not very good at, and that is one of them.

As I sat down to publish my first “official” post here at the newest incarnation of Wordout, I realized that the post was better suited to the FAQ. And then it hit me, so obvious I laughed out loud. <edit> Evan coined a new term for the state I was in: Faquagmire </edit>

You see, one of the reasons I wanted to create the Frequently Asked Questions section was to have an easily searchable database of problems I come across in my day to day work. Most things are very repetitive in this business, but every now and then something comes up that I will only see once a year, maybe. Sometimes it’s a real bother to remember what I did to fix the problem. It would be nice to have a resource I can trust that’s available wherever I need it. And in the future, it could serve as a guide to any technicians I might hire. It could be a “how to” manual on keeping a pc running smoothly. Anyone could search it and find the same answers I use every day.

Dee Dee Deee
You might have seen somewhere on the site where I say I really like this WordPress engine. Evan says it too in one of his comments. It really is a good development tool to work with. It has features galore the first time you use it, and is very easily twisted and turned into something reasonably unique. Plus it has a great little Search function…..

Uhhh, that is The biggest part of a FAQ. Hmmm. If I create a category of post in Wordout, and call it (lessee here…) Uhhh, call it, “Frequently Asked Questions”, and then just put posts with questions as titles, wouldn’t that effectively become my FAQ? Plus, I will get the added benefit that anyone can post a comment about the solution, thereby giving me a feedback loop to aid in quality control of the posts in the future. As technology changes my FAQ would naturally try to keep up through the comment section.

So that is what will be, for now at least. I think it’s a good idea, plus I can deal with WordPress alot easier than MySQL.

I am Jon, your host here at Wordout.

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Home Page Link Fixed

Thanks to Dawnie Duckie for pointing out that not only did the old home page at www.computergeekservices.net look yucky, but the Home link at Wordout didn’t even point there! I took the time today to make a leaner page there, getting rid of the drab old charcoal look completely. Of course, like everything else around here, it seems to be a work of perfection in progress.

Thanks Dawnie!

Keep them cards and letters comin….

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Beta Testing

This site is now released for Beta testing to a select group of invitees (you know who you are!) . As you’re poking around in here, don’t forget to add the RSS to your Firefox. You don’t want to miss a thing…

Notes:

The FAQ Frequently Asked Questions still is not finished. It displays, and accepts questions… but still it doesn’t work.
The Comment Preview button is currently broken. The Submit comment button works.

For the next several days comments will be open. This means that anyone can leave a comment without registering. Once the Beta testing is completed, users will be required to be registered and logged on to leave a comment.

I’m trying to get the F-Secure® World Map over there to the right in that blank area. Currently waiting on a response from F-Secure to see if they will let me do that. (Here is a short 40 second video at YouTube showing the World Map in action.)

The aim of Wordout is to provide relevant news, facts and commentary on any facet of technology, computing and science in general. Many of the topics I covered before will be included, but current topics will be limited to these general interests. The site is public, and is primarily used by members of the On Call On Site™ program, a group of select business and residential customers of Computergeek Services.

Again, thanks… just place your comments on this post so I will see them.

jon

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Coming Soon

Coming soon to your screen: Facts and Commentary on many things dealing with The Internet, Computers, Developing Technology, Earth & Space, Scary Stuff, and The Future!

Be sure to click the RSS feed link and add Wordout to your Firefox Bookmarks Toolbar so you don’t miss any of it!

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Progress Report

Slowly bringing this thing together, folks….

I am thinking that by the end of the week, I should be able to start actually using the site for it’s intended purpose. Hopefully by the end of this day I will have the Internet Storm Center, Internet Traffic Report, and all the other little niceties you were used to seeing on the old site. Hopefully, I will also be adding some new graphics to the sidebar to give you even more “Net At A Glance” info.

Stay tuned for further developments.

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The First Comment

For as long as I can deal with it, and as long as it works, the first comment will always need approval. After that, they will appear on the site when posted.

And with that, Wordout is back on the web.