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Follow Pleth on Twitter

July 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment

A while back my partners and I setup a Twitter account for Pleth. At the time not a lot of people had even heard of Twitter. For the most part we were just securing the name before someone else tried to grab it up from us, but as people are getting more and more familiar with Twitter and realizing it’s value, I think that it’s just a matter of time before we start utilizing the account for things like server maintenance announcements, service outages, press releases, news, and blog posts. 

If you are one of our clients, or just want to stay on top of what’s going on with our company, please feel free follow us on Twitter by clicking here. Please overlook the fact that we haven’t spent a lot of time designing our layout but eventually we will get around to doing that, just as soon as we can take a break from working on client projects.

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Current Projects: ARALA Launched

July 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I am meeting tomorrow with the Arkansas Residential Assisted Living Association to go over their new CMS for managing their website.  As I mentioned the other day, ARALA has been a client for a long time and over the years we have went through a couple different content management solutions.  I have no doubts that wordpress is going to be an excellent long-term solution for managing their website content.

Over the next few months I hope to bring all of the remaining clients that we have running cms solutions or frameworks that we hand coded ourselves over into wordpress or modx.

ARALA – Arkansas Residential Assisted Living Association |

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Possible Twitme Bug w/ WordPress 2.8

July 1, 2009 By 2 Comments

A few days ago I updated my personal blog to WordPress 2.8 and for the most part everything seemed to be working fine but I noticed yesterday that when I published to my blog using Windows Live Writer I started seeing an error message.  If you are not familiar w/ Live Writer it’s a great desktop publishing application that allows you to publish blog posts using RPC. 

To use Windows Live Writer you have to first enable RPC publishing inside of wordpress but once that’s done it’s actually pretty handy for a Microsoft application.  Here’s the error message I am getting:

The response to the metaWeblog.newPost method received from the blog server was invalid:
Invalid response document returned from XmlRpc server

Also, when I published from inside the wordpress dashboard instead of saying at the top of the post that it had published and giving me a link to view the post online I get a white screen but no error message.  I wasn’t for sure what could be causing the issue because I hadn’t seen any reports about Twitme errors with version 2.8 so I had our server admin Matt take a look at the error logs and mod security to see if we could track down what was causing this behavior and this is what we found:

PHP Fatal error:  Cannot use object of type stdClass as array in /var/www/vhosts/cottonrohrscheib.com/httpxdocs/blog/wp-content/plugins/twitme/twitmeShortUrl.php on line 37

Again, I wasn’t having any problems with the plugin up until the point where I upgraded to 2.8 but I am leaning toward there being a bug or something with the application.  Unfortunately TwitMe is not one of those applications that you can just deactivate and try to live without, it’s actually a pretty handy tool that posts your blogs to your twitter account, and probably one of the best plugins for doing that that I have seen.  I was just wondering if anyone else out there is having any issues with this plugin on 2.8?

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Keith Crawford’s Presentation on Friendfeed

July 1, 2009 By 3 Comments

For those of you who were unable to attend last nights Central Arkansas Refresh meeting due to other commitments, or just because you didn’t want to get out in the the hailstorm, here’s the video of Keith Crawford’s presentation on Friendfeed.  Special thanks to Rob McBryde for handling the video production and posting it to Vimeo. You can also view Keith’s presentation files on Prezi.com, http://prezi.com/107051/view/.  He also has posted some other related files to Friendfeed if you are interested.

I can’t speak for the group but I certainly know that I picked up a lot last night from Keith’s presentation that I didn’t realize Friendfeed was doing behind the scenes.  Today I probably received a half dozen or so follow notifications from others in the group that were at the meeting, so I know that I wasn’t the only one that has been neglecting Friendfeed all this time.

Enjoy the video, and be sure not to miss the next #RefreshCA meeting on July 28, 2009.

Presenting Friendfeed (Video) | KnowtheNetwork.com

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Current Projects: OAHCP Redesign

July 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment

This past week I mentioned that we were in the process of moving over two of our existing clients to wordpress.  One of those clients was OAHCP, the Oklahoma Association of Health Care Providers.  OAHCP has been one of my clients since 2002 and up until today were using a site that I had hand coded for them. Over the years I have learned a lot about how they use their website to communicate to their members and I realized that WordPress was a perfect fit for them, you can preview this redesign at www.oahcp.org/cms, it should go live sometime today.

oahcp-screenshot

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