Archive for October, 2010

Pizza Night at the Steveston Pizza Co.

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 30 Oct 2010 | Tagged as: Reviews

I’m a great fan of pizza, but becoming more health conscious I tend to be more careful with what I eat. Pizza has a poor reputation of being fast food, but this is mainly due to the low quality of food made by the popular pizzerias. Eating pizza at most places usually means dealing with [...]

The Pumpkin Patch at Richmond Country Farms

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 30 Oct 2010 | Tagged as: Gallery, General

As surprising at it may seem for someone who grew up in Canada, I’ve never been to a pumpkin patch until last week. I’m originally from Czechoslovakia and eastern Europeans don’t recognize the British traditions related to Halloween which include picking and carving pumpkins. Richmond Country Farms hosts a pumpkin patch each year around this [...]

Add a url Field to jos_content in Joomla

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 29 Oct 2010 | Tagged as: Programming

A useful feature for Joomla would be a way to store a URL for an article that only links to another site. You would have to manually create the link within a Joomla article which involves quite a bit of steps to do. I would rather create the title, add the URL, write a brief [...]

Dynamic Video Player Selection with iframe Embeds

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 29 Oct 2010 | Tagged as: Programming

Its a real challenge providing a video on your web site that can be viewed on any device accessing it, i.e. desktop computer, smart phone, PDA, or tablet. HTML5 is gaining ground against Flash, but not all devices will support this format and may only have one type of video player installed. A computer that [...]

Using Windows Live Writer With Joomla

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 18 Oct 2010 | Tagged as: How To

Windows Live Writer is a great application for creating blog posts on your computer and then uploading it to your web site. I find this editor works much faster than a web-based one and gives you greater control over content formatting and working with images. It’s possible to use Windows Live Writer with Joomla if [...]