Michael McNamara

technology, networking, virtualization and IP telephony

Where’s the content?

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Yes I’m admitting that I need to post some new content here…

I’ve literally been wrapped up in a large (400+ handset) Nortel IP Telephony deployment not to mention dozens of other projects including such topics as virtualization and managed data center design. In the coming months I’ll also be participating in designing and setting up a 25 user pilot of Microsoft Office Communication Server and integrating it with the Nortel Succession 1000 platform.

I know a lot of us are also sitting on the edge of our seats waiting to see what will happen with Nortel. I heard a few rumors that something should be announced with the next week or two but only time will tell.

Thanks for reading!

RSS Feeds

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I thought I would take a quick second to let everyone know that there are two RRS feeds for this blog. The first feed is for the articles that get posted while the second is for the comments made by readers like yourself and me. There are a lot of really helpful tips and information that can be found in the comments from some very insightful readers.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/michaelfmcnamara

http://feeds.feedburner.com/CommentsForMichaelFMcnamara

While there are approximately 50 readers subscribed to the main article RSS feed there is no one subscribed to the comments RSS feed.

Please feel free to comment on any article, especially if you think the article is incorrect and/or misleading. I’m also interested in soliciting information for future articles. What would you be interested in hear more about?

Thanks for reading!

Cheers!

GoDaddy Hosting and WordPress

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wordpressGoDaddy_thumb It’s closing in on two months now since I migrated my content from Blogger over to my new WordPress installation at GoDaddy. I must admit that I’ve enjoyed the entire process, from researching the different hosting providers to actually migrating the content and publishing the site.In short I’d have to say that I’m pleased with GoDaddy. I know there is a lot of “hate” out there directed at GoDaddy but the solution has been on par with my expectation of what a $6.64/month hosting plan should provide. It’s no where near as fast as the servers I have at work or home but it works fine enough, what do you want for less than $10/month? The install was as simple as clicking on the “Install WordPress” icon within the GoDaddy hosting connection control panel. Although I did need to fix up the configuration after the installation since I wanted to use the hostname “blog.michaelfmcnamara.com” as opposed to just “michaelfmcnamara.com”. I should probably let folks know I also used GoDaddy to register five different domain names along with their “Deluxe” hosting plan. I should point out to those that are interested that customers automatically get an “Economy” hosting plan with each purchased domain. I only signed up for a single year and didn’t mind spending the extra dollars to try out the upgraded hosting plan.

With respect to WordPress I have just one word – AWESOME! I’ve spent quite a bit of time sifting through the cascading style sheets of the themes and dissecting the PHP code trying to understand all the ins and outs. There is literally a dizzying array of plugs-in and add-ons out there for WordPress that extend the solution’s functionality ten fold. You may have noticed that I’ve been adding a few of the more mainline plug-ins every week (don’t want to overload the site and/or detract from it’s main purpose – educating the readers).

As a side note this blog was recently reviewed by Blogged and received an 8.3 rating. If your interested or just bored why don’t you wander over and post your own review of this blog.

Cheers!

Update: August 19, 2008
I thought I would just post an update with respect to my experiences with GoDaddy. I’m happy to say that I haven’t yet had any issues or problems. The traffic to this blog continues to grow daily but the site still feels fairly responsive. I’ve also added quite a few different WordPress plug-ins and just can’t say enough good things about WordPress.

Cheers!

The little web publisher

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1160561_45274657I’m starting to feel like a little web publishing company given all the steps I’ve had to go through in order to get myself off Blogger and over to WordPress. Don’t get me wrong I’ve kind of enjoyed the trip as I can now say I know more than I ever thought possible about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and how Google, Yahoo and Live all index sites. I’ve also gotten a chance to hack up the CSS stylesheet for this blog, changing the colors and fonts trying to make the site easier on the eyes (the original font color was too light and very hard on the eyes after reading for a while). There’s quite a bit more to be done but we’re well on our way. You might notice that I’ve finally managed to get Google to remove all search results for my old Blogger account (michaelfmcnamara.blogspot.com). Hopefully over the next few weeks Google will start to index the content on this site. I really don’t care how high or low I show up on a search result but if people can’t find the stuff I put out there than what’s the point of writing it.

A few folks have asked about GoDaddy…. so far so good. Although I did have a brief problem with the MySQL server which seemed to resolve itself in about 30 minutes. And I must say that I’m liking WordPress more and more each day, especially coupled with Microsoft’s Live Writer. Although I don’t know that I’m completely content with Live Writer, so the search continues.

What would you guys and gals like to hear about? I’m probably going to write a detailed article on how to configure two core ERS 8600 for IST/SMLT providing all the CLI commands. It seems there are a lot of folks out there struggling with that topic.

Cheers!

Update: Saturday 19, 2008

I spent a few hours last night and today exploring the CSS styles and cleaning up a few things. I noticed that a Internet Explorer was hanging on my recent article, Domain Name Server Patch. It seems that I had inadvertently copied the <style> tags from the RedHat HTML document and pasted them into my article. While Firefox (my primary web browser) would display the page without issues, Internet Explorer would download the entire page but stop displaying the page when it hit the <style> tags. I also added a poll feature to the blog… looking for some feedback folks.

Cheers!

Happy 4th of July!

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1207099_32402919 It’s July 4th here in the United States and time to celebrate our Independence Day.

July 4th is often referred to as the birthday of the United States of America. The Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4th (for the historians out there I know that it wasn’t actually signed on July 4th so please don’t flame me) and led to the American Revolutionary War as the colonies sought independence from Great Britain.

fireworks_big_burst_md_wht Please remember to thank the veterans and current day military men and women this weekend. While we all certainly don’t agree on the politics of world diplomacy it’s the men and women of the armed forces that  provide the umbrella of freedom and democracy that we enjoy every day.

Cheers!

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