Comments for Jonathan Kressaty

Comment on Want a great API? Don’t use Goodreads’ by Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:36:06 +0000

Hey Jenny, you can see the Gimme engine here: http://gimme.scottsdalelibrary.org/

Comment on Want a great API? Don’t use Goodreads’ by Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:25:52 +0000

Can you share this finished project? I’m looking for examples of projects that can giv eme an idea about possible integration with a public library’s catalog. I’d love to see this finished project.

Thanks,

Jenny

Comment on Chandler Urban Art Project at Gangplank by microshall

microshall — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:47:23 +0000

Comment on Want a great API? Don’t use Goodreads’ by Davide

Davide — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:29:41 +0000

What do you suggest alternatively to GoodReads?
Anobii seems very poor of API…
Ather Choices?

Comment on Setting Plesk Permissions for WordPress & FTP by Christoph Poschenrieder

Christoph Poschenrieder — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:05:10 +0000

Yippie! Your recipe worked.
Some time ago WordPress or whatever instance had started to create all new directories and files using apache/apache as owner/group while before it used to be ftpname/psacln. So FTPzilla couldnt deal with those files and folders (“not permitted”), and WordPress couldnt update or delete previously installed (pre-apache/apache) plugins. Upload didnt work either.
I am running Plesk 10 and Apache 2.2.3 (CentOS). Dont know exactly when and why the troubles began, maybe when I updated PHP.
So thanks again for your step-by-step cure, saved me a lot of trouble.

Comment on Setting Plesk Permissions for WordPress & FTP by Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:00:40 +0000

@Nacin – got it. Makes perfect sense. Thanks!

Comment on Setting Plesk Permissions for WordPress & FTP by Andrew Nacin

Andrew Nacin — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:57:26 +0000

The reason WordPress sometimes doesn't use the direct filesystem method even when it would work is because it only detects that the user on the PHP process is the owner. It doesn't support detecting group-writeable. There's more here and here (dd32 is a core developer and the lead maintainer on this), but essentially, we're trying to avoid a situation where we create and therefore own a file, when normally we would not be the owner, and that then locks out the FTP user. It's a lowest-common-denominator thing.

Comment on Setting Plesk Permissions for WordPress & FTP by Neil Pie

Neil Pie — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 20:55:20 +0000

Thanks for sharing this. I’m just this moment dealing with WP on a Plesk install and this information is going to come in very handy!

Comment on An Open Letter to ASU and its Entrepreneurship Initiatives by CJ Cornell

CJ Cornell — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:31:27 +0000

Sean,It's a shame you didn't try other programs at ASU … not all are dong the same old. Universities are actually pretty good at teaching the "standard", operational aspects of a startup (incorporation, accounting, legal etc …) but really these are not the core experiences that student entrepreneurs *need* to learn – it's certainly good if the university offers some of those services – but these are services and information that can be gotten from a VAST variety of places and often better quality and lower cost.Mentorship -(and role models) – ah, now these are something that *every* young entrepreneur needs desperately – particularly if you are living in a region outside of Silicon Valley, NY or Seattle – where the concentration of experienced and credible mentors and role models is deep. Edson, Skysong etc – they are providing the value that they set out to provide: a little funding, and an environment (facilities) to make your entrepreneurial journey a little easier, if not possible.But there are other programs within ASU and at other the Universities, starting to emerge, like ours, that are run by experience entrepreneurs who have started, and grown companies, attracted funding, revenues etc … the problem is, that there are not many of these programs (a notable one is at Stanford – headed by well respected entrepreneur, author and educator Steve Blank). As I stated above – universities and ASU, shoulder some of the blame for underserving promising entrepreneurs like yourself … but so you can understand – there are other forces that affect the quality of these programs: 1) the University's ability to attract (and even recognize) a credible entrepreneur , who is willing and able to teach/mentor. 2) no matter what kind of program is launched – most have to co-exist with the student's schedule … i.e. it is difficult to offer all-out high quality mentoring, when the student can only show up 1 hour a week due to a full courseload. and 3) the level of mentoring sometimes can only go so far each semester. Students often move on to the next semester's courseload or graduate and leave … thus sometimes it is hard to justify a broad mentoring program when there are only a handful of students, such as yourself, that can benefit.Again, these are not excuses or even reasons. but sometimes it is helpful to understand all the other dynamics.As a 6-time entrepreneur, and entrepreneurship educator "I feel your pain" – and many of us work hard to seek out students who can really benefit from our experience and become the next Mark Zuckerberg etc … but at the largest university in the country, sometimes makes more sense if the students find us. Either way, yes, we could do a better job – and voices like yours help ENORMOUSLY … so keep blogging, writing, speaking, yelling, whispering – whatever it takes.CJCJ CornellProfessor of Digital Media & EntrepreneurshipWalter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass CommunicationArizona State UniversityEntrepreneur-in-Residence, Co-DirectorKnight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship

Comment on iPhone iOS 4.0 Group Texting by Shane

Shane — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 23:31:36 +0000

The option is not available on my iPhone 3GS running iOS4. I’m on the Telstra network in Australia. Regards,Shane.