My newest wordpress site is Property Video Blog. The focus of this blog is to organize tutorials about various subjects of investing in real estate and allow people to learn while they watch these tutorials. These tutorials come are not produced by me, but come from a myriad of different sources, so my role with this site is simply aggregating the useful content, and dismissing the junk.

Of course, besides aggregation, I am also trying to add value by making useful comments about the tips that should help the information sink in better.  Hopefully it becomes a legitimate value to visitors.

With the growing number of projects I have been working on, version control seems to become increasingly important.  With a system for version control, willy nilly saving and copying of files is a thing of the past.

Here is a quick and dirty usage guide to start a project.

SVN Usage:

Creating a project:
On Server, run:
#svnadmin create /var/svn/(project)
#svn import (project) file:///var/svn/(project) -m “initial import”
#chown -R www:wheel /var/svn/(project)

To get a working copy:
svn checkout http://china.jellyfishnetwork.com/svn/(project)

To deploy:
svn export http://china.jellyfishnetwork.com/svn/(project)

For a more  informative guide about setting up subversion on freebsd, see:

bsdguides

With the general thought that google offers many possibilities with their seemingly endless API’s I began on a project today that seemed quite simple in nature.  I would use the google api to see if a page was in the cache, and if not then flag it and link to it from somewhere.

The first roadblock I found was that the SOAP Google API no longer offers support, and I could not find their examples anywhere online.

Then I thought, why not just get the pagerank and see if when it is not cached it returns N/A then I could just assume it is not cached.  I searched long and hard for working codes, but the checksums must have been wrong or something because they have all been giving me the forbidden  403 error.  The main script I used was the Google Pagerank Checker, and it was quite unfortunate when it did not work, because it looked like it offered so much promise.