October 2009 – Ryan Chapin's Website

bad owner name (check-names) Error in BIND 9

Posted on October 29, 2009 by rchapin

I added a subdomain to a zone file and when I reloaded named I noticed the following error in messages:

Oct 29 09:31:06 master named[28254]: tabordesignbuild.com.db:59: beta_live.sampledomain.com: bad owner name (check-names)
Oct 29 09:31:06 master named[28254]: zone sampledomain.com/IN: loading from master file sampledomain.com.db failed: bad owner name (check-names)

We are running BIND 9 and after doing a little searching it turns out that with the default configuration for BIND 9 underscores are now verbotten.

Evidently, if you need to include → Continue reading “bad owner name (check-names) Error in BIND 9”

Interesting Article Regarding "Freedom" of the Operating Systems on Maemo vs. Android

Posted on October 27, 2009 by rchapin

An article that discusses the level of freedom (User Access Rights, Cooperation and Interoperability, Presence of Closed Source Software, and Freedom in Practic) between Maemo and Android.→ Continue reading “Interesting Article Regarding "Freedom" of the Operating Systems on Maemo vs. Android”

Marketing Book Review: Purple Cow by Seth Godin

Posted on October 8, 2009January 21, 2021 by rchapin

I recently finished reading Seth Godin’s Purple Cow, Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable and would strongly suggest that any business owner, manager, C-Level executive, or marketer read it.

His main thesis is that the marketing paradigm has changed and that instead of trying to market to a broad audience with traditional methods you must position, or change, your brand or company so that it highlights something that is remarkable and targets a very specific niche of early adopters. And → Continue reading “Marketing Book Review: Purple Cow by Seth Godin”

On WYSIWYIG HTML Editors and the jQuery.UI web user interface toolkit.

Posted on October 3, 2009 by rchapin

Building advanced web applications and frameworks often involves getting incompatible pieces from various projects to work together cohesively inside a majority of browsers. The more advanced the functionality, the more of a problem this becomes especially when you’re trying to support older and very broken browsers such as MSIE 6.0.

At the present moment, I’m involved in building a substantial ecommerce project with a desktop style interface that includes popup dialogs, drag and drop lists, multiple tabbed interfaces among other → Continue reading “On WYSIWYIG HTML Editors and the jQuery.UI web user interface toolkit.”

Free CSS Template Resource

Posted on October 2, 2009 by rchapin

Here is a great resource for free CSS templates and web site designs. Based on the licensing information on the site, it seems as though they are all either GPL/GNU or Creative Commons.→ Continue reading “Free CSS Template Resource”

Two Great Lists and Reviews of Flash and Javascript Charting Packages

Posted on October 2, 2009 by rchapin

What follows are links to two different blog articles by Steve Reynolds about both Flash and Javascript packages. The coolest looking package, not just charts is the Raphael Javascript library.

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Open Source Flash Charting Package: Open Flash Chart

Posted on October 2, 2009 by rchapin

We have a client that is in need of some dynamic Flash charts. After some googling I came accross the Open Flash Chart project. It seems to be an active project with a decent following. Moreover, there are a number of other commercial products out there that are using the LGPL licensed code.

It looks to be a fairly mature code base that provides an enormous amount of customization without editing any ActionScript code or recompiling any .swf files. → Continue reading “Open Source Flash Charting Package: Open Flash Chart”