Forum Activity for @michael

How can we safely employ outside help for site development?

Design and Skin Customization

When I do freelance work for a client, the steps I follow are:

* We agree on my work terms ( http://www.apicos.com/site/jamroom_developer.php )
* You make a small initial deposit to ensure you are able to pay when the time comes
* You give me a copy of the site. This usually means FTP access to download it so I can setup a copy on my local machine.
* I do the work up to a certain point, you agree that its finished and pay that amount.
* I upload that portion to your site.

So your always in control of the portion that you've paid for.

I think you'll find developers will prefer to do the work on their own machine because they will have more tools available to them, then once its done put it on your machine.

Things that trigger alarms for me:
#1: Please do the work on my machine and I'll pay you once its finished
#2: I want to pay a fixed amount decided upon before we start.

#1: The client can shut off access and refuse to pay, nothing I can do, I've wasted my time.
#2: Signals the client is not confident they understand the scope of what they are asking.

TIPS:
* You get what you ASK for, not what you WANT so ask for what you want.
There have been a few times when I have built what was asked for only to be told, but that's not what I wanted. If the contract is for a 'fixed amount before we start' this immediately causes a problem. If the contract is 'pay per hour' there is no problem, but the client gets a bad feeling because they've paid for something they don't want.

So outline clearly what's wanted.

* Hire the right person for the job. If you want modules, you want a 'programmer', if you want implementation of a design to HTML you want a 'web developer' sometimes call themselves 'coder'. If you want the layout picked and designs done, but not necessarily the code written, you want a 'designer'. Its very rare to find one person who is all of these, and if they are, they will be expensive.

I'm not a designer, but I can take a design and turn it into a skin if the design is provided.

After that, its just finding someone who seams capable and building a relationship with them.

one All issue still not solved

Using Jamroom

There is nothing in your instructions that I am able to check.

Please provide instructions on how to reproduce the error if you believe its a jamroom issue. Otherwise, contacting oneall to inform them of your discovery is the correct course of action.

blog categories

Jamroom Developers

Seams like the right approach. Also use the group_by clause to get just one of each:


"{jrCore_list}"
http://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/development/89/jrcore-list

Rss Audio Reader Custom

Using Jamroom

Take a look at the source code for that XML page. Firefox will usually highlight any errors it sees in red.

Hard to tell what the error is on just the screenshot.

XML is very picky when it comes to formatting. You need to escape the output so that it matches XML requirements.

That might be as easy as adding |jrCore_entity_string to the variables you use, or it might require more. need to do lots of testing.

eg:
{$title|jrCore_entity_string}

Beta : Profiles - Deleting Profile 500 error Msg

Using Jamroom

Not able to get the first image to show. For me I can see the second image, then click continue and it returns me to the top page of the site.

Where are you seeing the first image?

Sharethis Twitter Image

Using Jamroom

This is a custom twitter card:

twitter needs different META data to understand what its looking at. There is plans to put that in with the share this module in the same place that facebook has its meta data, its just not done yet.

The full version would look like:

Thanks to @derrickhand300 for figuring it all out.

Nginx install dbase error

Installation and Configuration

Yeah its not a "somethings wrong with a module" problem by the looks of it, looks more like a "database not connecting correctly if tables cant be created" type problem.

Nginx install dbase error

Installation and Configuration

If url's aren’t working its probably the equivalent of .htaccess not being there. Not sure if ngix uses .htaccess as I think its an apache thing.

/user/signup should work as that provided by the jrUser module.

Nginx install dbase error

Installation and Configuration

Try removing the jrBlog module and see if it goes through.

That would eliminate the possibility that it could be an issue with the blog module.

audio_conversions page not found. after using Import Audio tool

Using Jamroom

Thanks. Guessing your on the jamroom 5.3 beta version?

The location of the queue viewer has moved from MODULES -> CORE -> SYSTEM CORE -> TOOLS over to DASHBOARD -> QUEUE VIEWER

So the url you'll be wanting is:
YOUR-SITE.com/core/dashboard/queue_viewer/queue_name=audio_conversions

This should naturally fix once 5.3 comes out of beta and lines up with all the STABLE modules, but I'll check just to be sure.

Thanks.