Personal blog of Josh Lyon

  • New House – Hurricane Ike

    We closed on our new house Friday, September 5th and moved in unexpectedly on Thursday, September 11th! We originally planned to close on the 4th, but delays from the Seller’s bank caused a 1-day delay on the closing of the house. We bought the house that we wanted in Valley Ranch, but were negotiating with…

  • Google Chrome – No Plugin Available to Display this Content

      Google Chrome was recently released and it seems that a lot of people are having questions around why they can’t access content on certain webpages. What I’ve found is most of those webpages that people are having trouble on are pages that are running Java applets. For example, my fullscreen slideshow applet in my…

  • Test Article for 1.5

    This is a test of the 1.5 url rerouting with sh404sef. This is the first test with the new Joomla 1.5 content editor from the front-end of the website. I’ve had to fix quite a few things and migrate to some new components, but it really hasn’t been that bad. The biggest issue was that…

  • Joomla Migration Plan

    I’ve finally decided to start working on a Joomla 1.5 migration plan. The main thing that has been holding me back is my search engine optimized URLs from Joomla 1.0.15 which are being generated using OpenSEF. Being that OpenSEF is no longer supported, there is not a Joomla 1.5 compatible version of the plugin. At…

  • Joomla Templates getItems() Issue

    If you start getting template errors (specifically with JoomlaArt templates) like the one below, just replace the lines of code listed below. I’ve noticed this happen on JA_Fagus and JA_Purity… although I think JA_Purity was fixed in the 1.5.6 Joomla packages. Fatal error: Call to a member function getItems() on a non-object in /***/templates/ja_***/ja_menus/Base.class.php on…

  • Josh Lyon’s Birthday

    Today is my (Josh Lyon) birthday and the interns did their individual final presentations today. 3 of the 8 interns were working for me on on a new platform that we will be rolling out to customers in the near future and all their presentations were awesome. We had a great group of kids this…

  • Set Joomla Publishing Defaults

    I got tired of having to click through the tabs in Joomla 1.0.x to change my publishing state from unpublished to published and check the show on frontpage item everytime I posted a new article. That being said, I did a little research and figured out how to change the default settings. It requires you…

  • Brewery Tour Photos

    The photos from the Anheuser-Busch brewery tour in Colorado have been posted. Aaron (my brother-in-law) took about 150 pictures, but I posted the ones I liked best. It was fun getting to go through the tour and see the beer brewing process, but the best part was at the end where we got to taste…

  • Colorado Rafting and Hiking Pictures

    I’ve uploaded some of the pictures from the visit to my parents house in Loveland, Colorado. We went hiking at Rocky Mountain National Park and went White Water rafting on a Wanderlust Adventure down the Poudre river. Click on the links below to check out the albums.  Also, remember that I now have two slideshow…

  • Visiting my Parents in Loveland

    We’re in Loveland, CO for an extended weekend to visit my parents at their new house. My parents recently moved up here for my Dad’s new job at McLane Co. To keep my mom happy, my dad bought her a big house. I’ll try to take some pictures before we leave and post them when we…

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