Montego Musings

I have decided to take this blog in a different direction. I already have my technical PHP script related web site called Montego Scripts, and so I really don’t need a separate site to blog on technical topics. I will probably move some of the older material to my Montego Scripts Wiki or just use the forums there.

Not sure I’ll have the time, but since this site was pretty dead anyways, what can it hurt!

This was sent to me by a business acquaintance of mine who’s company he worked for just closed their doors, so he’s out of a job (his “pebble”). Although I prefer to look at this life from Divine viewpoint rather than human viewpoint, I do believe one could easily relate this to either viewpoint quite easily… (I just might throw in a tennis ball to start with, which I would call my spiritual life).

So, here is goes:

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 cups of coffee.

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

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All you *nukers out there may appreciate this gripe of mine. In RavenNuke™, PHP-Nuke, and the other *nuke variants, there is the concept of a normal user and an admin user. There is even a special type of admin user called a “God Admin", with special privileges, such as creating new admins and assigning privileges. So far, not a bad approach, although it is debatable why one even has to have two separate classes of users, but, I digress.

The administration control panel, or ACP for short, within *nuke consists of two sections, the first called “Administration Menu” and the second called “Modules Administration". As many of you know, in order for an admin to see the Administration Menu applets, as I like to call them, one must be given SuperUser privileges. However, it is also possible to set up admins to only have access to the administration applets for specific modules.

The problem with SuperUser access, is that means an admin can do everything except “Edit Admins” - if you have NukeSentinel™ installed - and if you are like me, you may not like that too much. In fact, out of the Administration Menu applets, I often wished that I could just give an admin access to post system messages, so the Messages applet, or possibly to just manage Submissions. Unfortunately, you have to give them SuperUser access, which gives them everything else…

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Tired of the old *nuke news module? Me too. I would love someday to port this blog software, b2evolution, to a *nuke module. I never intended for Montego Musings to end up being a place where one comes for code hacks or other types of code for *nuke, but since I fully intend on porting this some day and having it replace my news module at Montego Scripts, I guess I’ll deviate some from my original intent.

Heck, if nothing else, it will get me to post more and maybe get this thing moving again. Then I’ll use Montego Musings for more personal type stuff, or just shut’er down.

Unfortunately I have not had time enough to make another post in quite some time. My desire is to post at least once per week. In my “spare time” (yeah, I know, what is that?), I have been reading a good book on search engine optimization (SEO). My plan is to post a whole series on the topic from the book as well as other related readings.

The book is titled Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP by Jaimie Sirovich and Cristian Darie of SEO Egghead.com. I would also recommend folks subscribe to Aaron Wall’s RSS feed at SEO Book.com. There are a few more recommended readings as well, but I will save that for further posts.