Flickr Slideshow Wrapper Version 4.6.0
We just released version 4.6.0 of Flickr Slideshow Wrapper, a plug-in for Wordpress to easily embed flickr slideshows.
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Migrating From Debian Etch to Lenny
Lenny will be the next stable release after Debian Etch. It has today still the status unstable, but worked for me without any issues in a virtual machine on my mac. Hence, I decided today to move my servers on Lenny. Upgrade on a 1&1 AMD Rootserver is quite easy.
Juste replace in your /etc/apt/sources.list all ‘etch’ statements with ‘lenny’.
then type the following:
aptitude update
aptitude dist-upgrade
aptitude upgrade
aptitude update
aptitude upgrade
Upgrade worked for my without any major issues within a couple of minutes. However mySQL will not start properly and Apache2 will reset your may-be redirect commands (e.g. AllowOverride All to AllowOverride None in apache2.conf or httpd.conf). Please correct the Apache2 conf files and restart your server with /etc/init.d/apache2 restart.
As for the mySQL Error, the error message is self-explaining:
/etc/init.d/mysql:ERROR: Using expire_logs_days without log_bin crashes
Just go to your /etc/myqsl/my.conf file. The parameter ‘expire_logs_days’ requires now the ‘log_bin’ parameter be turned on. Open the file and turn ‘log_bin’ on (e.g, removing the ‘#’ character infront of it).
Afterwards you only need to restart your mysql server with /etc/initd./mysql restart, and you whole rootserver should now run smoothly on Debian Lenny.
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Plaxo Pulse Issue With Twitter
I’m using plaxo.com to synchronize my phonebooks through all my PCs, different MACs and accounts like Google Apps. The solution,even though quite buggy a couple of years ago, works today like charme.
With the pulse stream you are even able to consolidate all your social network services within plaxo.
However I’m waiting impatiently for the announced 2-way-synchronization of my Google Account. Furthermore I never achieved to get my twitter.com implemented and hence synchronized.
Being a premium member, I made use of raising a ticket with some strange responses, the last being that everything is now working fine. Surprisingly the button to add twitter as a shared service is now completely gone. I hope people @plaxo.com are aware about this issue and will come back with a twitter solution pretty soon. If anyone does know about a workaround it would be great to see your solution posted in a comment to this article.
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ExpressionEngine One Of The Best CMS Systems
Finally I achieved to move my whole blog to expressionengine.com technology. I bought the full license already a couple of years ago, tried in a sandbox and have to say that I always gave up after a couple of hours as you do need some leisure time to understand the logic of the software. So most of the time I reinstalled wordpress, drupal or joomla and sometimes played with offline tools like rapidweaver for Mac OS X or even dreamweaver. All these tools (and there are more, see following review to get an impression: http://www.openjason.com/) have th big advantage that you get quickly productive. Installation is as smooth as ExpressionEngine is, but you get faster very promising results with wordpress for example. ExpressionEngine (although some templates available) is a tool which overs you ALL possibilities but with the limitation that you’ll not get a fancy homepage out of the box by simple installation of the core platfrom.
I was first attracted to Expression Engine because it appeared to offer a solid all in one package. Seamlessly integrating multiple pieces of software to bring a site together can be at best a laborious task and at worst impossible. Even once it’s done you then have the hassle of one login for every section of the site, whether it’s the gallery, the news section or the downloads area. The idea that I could configure every aspect of my site through the same templates and then make updates through the same login made EE an appealing purchase. It includes a forum, a gallery and even a small e-commerce module for basic functionality.
Being a closed software platform it offers less modules, plugins and extensions than the open source alternatives mentioned above. However, before my purchase years ago I was already impressed by the quality of their customer service, the good documentation and the strong community - really everyone is polite and helps you as a newbie to go through the difficult steps of a learning to navigate through a new environment.
You have to get used to the templating philosophy. But once you did, you’ll be impressed by the possibilities. It’s just great that expression engine separates CSS, RSS, etc, means the layout with the dynamic content. You’re building your sites as you would do with a tool like a dreamweaver and you only replace your content mainly with variables and loop “through dynamic content statements” to get your content show up in the templates you defined.
For each of your content sections you can define own input fields, mandatory fields, categories, etc. You as the owner keep the control over the whole content management system. This means that a different selection of fields can be displayed, depending on the blog being posted to. For anyone who has plans to ‘hand over the keys’ so to speak and let their clients update their own sites, this is a very useful feature as each field can be clearly labelled and configured to suit.
ExpressionEngine is a full content management systems which can display as well only a blog, but you have the whole power in and this makes it especially for people who only want to implement quickly a blog less convenient than most of the above mentioned tools. But(!) ... even though I have to admit that installation of wordpress is much easier at first glance I was always disappointed about the speed of the software and I was tired as well of hacking away at core files and scouring the net for essential third party plugins or even to develop own ones as I did with flickr-slideshow-wrapper for wordpress.
Having now implemented expression engine successfully I know what the biggest advantage is and why it was worth spending my leisure time in the learning curve: SPEED, SPEED, SPEED!!! I’m just amazed how fast expression engine renders my pages (with comparable functionality) to my former implementations with joomla, wordpress, drupal or rapid weaver (the last one being very fast compared to the other, due to its static page concept).
Nevertheless, tools like wordpress, joomla, drupal are today commodity. Download, install and start blogging. For expression engine you need some time. I’m not affiliated with ellislab.com the company behind ee, but I can only suggest their software expression engine to any blogger, who does not want to compromise with any may be limitations. Expression Engine can really do whatever your design dreams are.
Ryan Irlan (http://www.ryanirelan.com) made some absolutely fantastic videos which will give you a fantastic deep dive-in into expression engine philosophy. Although building in his casts an example “news” page, you’ll easily understand the philosophy behind ee, and with only some basic CSS, HTML and programming skills you’ll get tremendous benefit out of his lessons (worth each penny, and again I’m not affiliated to Ryan either 
).
The only thing I’m missing is a plug-in for http://www.websnapr.com/. If any reader has a hint or a workaround (easy to implement and to use) I would appreciate if you could add a comment to this posting with your advice! Many thanks in advance.
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Maximus & NFX Announce New Drilling Results
Maximus and NFX announce new drilling results extending the Bear Lake Gold Zone at Larder Lake
Hole #24AW intersects 1.4 meters grading 10.2g/t Au and hole 24A cuts 1.9 meters assaying 9.1 g/t Au
Longueuil, Quebec and Toronto, Ontario: July 9, 2008. Maximus Ventures Ltd. ("Maximus") (TSX.V: MXV) and NFX Gold Inc. ("NFX") (TSX.V: NFX) are pleased to announce additional results from the follow-up drilling program on the Bear Lake Gold Zone of the Larder Lake Property located in northeastern Ontario. Hole #24AW intersected 5.8 meters of flow-type mineralization grading 3.0 g/t gold, including a section of 1.4 meters grading 10.2 g/t gold. Furthermore, hole #24A cut a 1.9 meter section of carbonate-type mineralization assaying 9.1 g/t gold and hole #44W intersected 13.0 meters of carbonate-type mineralization grading 2.6 g/t gold, including a 1.5 meter section assaying 7.1 g/t gold and 3.2 meters assaying 5.1 g/t gold.
In addition, hole #35 cut 0.7 meter of pyritized sediments grading 7.2 g/t gold. This intersection represents a new zone south of the carbonate and flow-type mineralization and will be subject to further investigation as the drilling program progresses. “We are very happy that the drilling consistently hits the carbonate-type mineralization at Bear Lake” stated Francois Viens, President and CEO of Maximus. “We have adjusted the program to target the flow-type mineralization that consistently demonstrated the best continuity and gold grade at the historic Kerr-Addison Mine.”
Highlights of recent results are tabulated below and complete results are presented in attached Table 1.
At Bear Lake, most of the drill intercepts to date are in the carbonate-type mineralization. Three deeper holes targeting the flow-type mineralization below 700 meters vertical were abandoned before reaching their target (e.g. holes #42A, #43 and #44) due to the presence of a strongly altered shear zone located approximately half way between the carbonate-type and flow-type mineralized zones. At the now-closed Kerr Addison mine located 5 kilometers east of Bear Lake, the flow-ore, which produced 60% of the gold, yielded higher and more consistent gold grades than the carbonate-ore which constituted only 40% of the total production. Considering the significance of the flow-type mineralization in the exploration model at Bear Lake, the drilling program has been adjusted so that holes designed to test the Bear Lake gold zones below 700 meters vertical are drilled from south to north, in order to intersect the flow-type mineralization before intersecting the shear zone.
Project Update
Three drill rigs are currently active at Larder Lake. Of the budgeted 43,000-meter drilling program proposed for Larder Lake in 2008, a total of 19,500 meters of diamond drilling has been completed to date in 39 holes. The drilling program will continue to systematically test the Bear Lake gold zone along strike and down-plunge to a vertical depth of 1,000 meters, using a 125 meter to 150 meter hole spacing. The 2008 drilling program will also test other promising gold targets on the Larder Lake Property. These targets are all located within the same rock units that host most of the gold occurrences along the Cadillac-Larder Lake Break, including the historic Kerr-Addison mine. To date, approximately 5% of all the samples submitted to the laboratory for assaying are still outstanding.
Larder Lake Property
Maximus is conducting the drilling program pursuant to the Option and Joint Venture Agreement between Maximus and NFX, whereby Maximus has the right to earn a 60% interest in NFX’s 100% interest in the Cheminis, Fernland and Bear Lake claims and 45% interest in NFX’s 100% owned Barber Larder claims, by expending $6 million on exploration by December 31, 2008. On July 4, 2008, Maximus notified NFX that it has met its $6 million expenditure commitment. Subject to NFX’s review of the notice and documentation submitted with it, Maximus will be deemed to have earned a 60% and 45% undivided interest in the properties as described above.
NFX-Maximus Merger
On June 13, 2008, Maximus and NFX announced that they have entered into an agreement to combine the two companies on the basis of one (1) NFX share for each one (1) Maximus share. Based on the share exchange ratio, the Maximus and NFX shareholders will own approximately 58% and 42%, respectively, of the combined common shares outstanding. Completion of the transaction is subject to usual terms and conditions for such a transaction, including completion of due diligence, completion and execution of definitive business combination documentation, receipt of opinions from qualified investment dealers that the transaction is fair to the shareholders of NFX and Maximus, receipt of all required regulatory and securityholder approvals and no material adverse changes occurring in the financial condition of either company.
Quality Assurance and Control
As part of its QA/QC program, Maximus carried out check assays on the high-grade intersections with no discrepancies found in the assay results. The assays reported are the uncut average grades of all determinations from the same samples. The analytical method for gold is one (1) assay-ton fire assay, with gravimetric finish on all samples. All assays reporting over 2 g/t Au are automatically re-checked using the rejects. Assaying was done at Laboratoire Expert in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec and at Polymet Labs in Cobalt, Ontario. The quality control process includes inserting blank samples and certified standards within each batch sent to the laboratory.
Qualified Person
The technical content of the information contained in this news release was reviewed and approved by Mr. Bernard Boily, P. Geo., Maximus’ Vice President of Exploration. Mr. Boily is responsible for supervising the drilling program and is a qualified person under National Instrument 43-101.
Forward-looking Statements
This news release contains certain “forward-looking statements”. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, that address activities, events or developments that Maximus and NFX believes, expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future, are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements reflect the current internal projections, expectations or beliefs of management of Maximus and NFX based on information currently available to them. Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties beyond Maximus and NFX’s control including uncertainties related to the completion of the proposed business combination, potential mineralization, exploration results, completion of work program, and availability of equipment necessary for the drilling program and future plans and objectives of the companies. Resource exploration, development and operations are highly speculative, characterized by a number of significant risks, which even a combination of careful evaluation, experience and knowledge may not eliminate, including, among other things, unprofitable efforts resulting not only from the failure to discover mineral resources but from finding mineral deposits which, though present, are insufficient in quantity and quality to return a profit from production. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate and actual results could differ materially from those suggested by these forward-looking statements for various reasons discussed from time to time in filings made by the companies with securities regulatory authorities. All forward-looking statements herein are qualified by this cautionary statement. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Maximus and NFX undertakes no obligation to update publicly or otherwise revise any forward-looking statements, except as may be required by law.
For further information please contact:
Francois Viens
President and CEO
Maximus Ventures Ltd.
Tel: 450-677-1009
Fax: 450-677-2601
http://www.maximusventures.com
Gerri Paxton/Louise Quinn
Investor Relations
Maximus Ventures Ltd.
Tel: 450-677-2054/677-3523
Thomas G. Larsen
President and CEO
NFX Gold Inc.
Tel: 416-360-8006
Fax: 416-361-1333
Toll Free: 800-360-8006
http://www.nfxgold.com
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Jeannot Muller
