Lately I have been trying to think of ways to make Famous Food Finder more into a service that anyone can easily use and offer on their website. So far this has brought me to the beginning of creating several widget-like versions of Famous Food Finder. Development has already began on a Drupal module and a WordPress module will soon follow after that.

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As mentioned in other blog postings, I run Openfire and have integrated chat functionality into my Drupal installation. One thing I really like about using XMPP is that I can update my presence online to let others know what I am doing or if I am available.

I took a look back at the User Directory module and noticed that some of the ways I did a few things were outside of Drupal's coding standards. I went back and corrected these issues. There is no new functionality, but the coding is proper and the entries within the tree structure are in a proper Drupal table.

When I first started this blog I said I would never post snippets or documentation that wasn't full. I am however stumped on a problem and just wanted to throw my solution out there for any others also experiencing it.

For the past 2 months a friend and I have been working on a site (www.famousfoodfinder.com) that would allow users to search for famous restaurants. The idea initially came from the fact that I love food and have been considering traveling around the US for quite some time.

The other day I had the need to communicate with an Oracle Database server remotely. Looking online took me to a few sources and forum threads before I actually had a 100% complete installation working. Hopefully this will serve as a complete resource for installing and configuring what is needed to get the OCI libraries working with PHP5.

Class has started again (last semester), so my time is once again sparce, but I am happy to say that I have one main project in the pipeline that is currently recieving a lot of my attention. I will not be releasing any details about the project yet, but it should hopefully be running in the next month or so.

While recently locking down a Redhat Enterprise Linux box, it was requested that I remove the avahi-autoipd. This is the daemon that provides a '169.254.' address when a network address is unavailable to the system. Once I removed the avahi-autoipd group of software, Gnome Desktop would hang and not come up. Re-installation of the app immediately allowed Gnome to come back.

It has been 2 weeks since the posting mentioning that Carrier Pigeon would be released. Today marks the day of an official 2 week period and you can now access the tools by clicking here.