Ionrock Dot Org

We got back from California yesterday after a great week of being unplugged. It is amazing how slow time seems to go when you do not have things to do every minute of the day. With that said I am excited to get back to work and getting some projects done. I have a good deal of work to do at work (ironic isn't it) utilizing phpwcms which is good. I am getting more details ironed out for installing phpwcms and what really is needed to make things work which is good since I will need to know as much as possible for making the plugin system work. I have noticed that a ton on people are having trouble when they first try and login. They get the login screen and it shows their user as logged in. I found this to be due to not having session cookies available in the php.ini which (from what I understand) allows php to create cookies on the server side to hold session variables. Without this enabled, after the login is successful, the user log table is updated which is why you see the a user logged in but since there are no session cookies, the phpwcms.php page (the main admin page) cannot see you are logged in and sends you back to the login page. This should be pointed out in the documentation as the forum is not the best place to find answers to this kind of problem since it is really a installation requirement. Hopefully this is the problem others are having and Oliver will find a minute to update it in the docs.

Orkut

I have actually looked around on Orkut and I think I have come to a verdict that it is pretty useless. While it may be hip and kind of cool I do not see the need for it the slightest bit. Nonetheless I will continue to try and do something with it. Mostly a means a wasting a minute or two here and there, wondering why anyone even cares about it. In the mean time though, I have too much school/work/music to do so Orkut will continue to be useless to me more out of necessity than anything else. Maybe someday I can be ultra hip and millions will want to be my "friend" and read my blog but in the mean time I will be working hard to be a better geek and husband.