Rob Rosko Web & Technology Blog http://www.robrosko.net/robs-blog/ Web & Technology Interests Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:23:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1.1 en hourly 1 New Site - The Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Awards http://www.robrosko.net/robs-blog/2009/07/new-site-the-pete-conrad-spirit-of-innovation-awards/ http://www.robrosko.net/robs-blog/2009/07/new-site-the-pete-conrad-spirit-of-innovation-awards/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:23:27 +0000 admin http://www.robrosko.net/robs-blog/2009/07/new-site-the-pete-conrad-spirit-of-innovation-awards/ I’m proud to work with the Conrad Foundation by building their competition website.

You can visit the site here - www.conradawards.org - We just launched a few days ago after having a full page advertisement in this months Wired magazine. I’m continuing to flesh out the site and expect big things when they start the marketing push in August.

]]> http://www.robrosko.net/robs-blog/2009/07/new-site-the-pete-conrad-spirit-of-innovation-awards/feed/ Building a Social Network site on Joomla! http://www.robrosko.net/robs-blog/2009/07/building-a-social-network-site-on-joomla/ http://www.robrosko.net/robs-blog/2009/07/building-a-social-network-site-on-joomla/#comments Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:49:09 +0000 admin http://www.robrosko.net/robs-blog/2009/07/building-a-social-network-site-on-joomla/ Just a quick post today… I’ve been busy doing some research and building out a dev social networking site on the Joomla! platform these past 2-3 weeks.

Working with a relatively new client, and going over their spec sheet for functionality on the site started me to worry. At first I thought I might be in over my head, but after taking a look at all the extensions available on the JED, there are some very promising tools available. JomSocial, Kunena and K2 are just a few that will make this site rock! It’s exciting to watch it come together. I’ll post a link when ready.

]]> http://www.robrosko.net/robs-blog/2009/07/building-a-social-network-site-on-joomla/feed/ Adding Google Apps to a MediaTemple domain http://www.robrosko.net/robs-blog/2009/06/adding-google-apps-to-a-mediatemple-domain/ http://www.robrosko.net/robs-blog/2009/06/adding-google-apps-to-a-mediatemple-domain/#comments Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:18:49 +0000 admin http://www.robrosko.net/robs-blog/2009/06/adding-google-apps-to-a-mediatemple-domain/ MediaTemple Account Center Domain Tab

MediaTemple Account Center Domain Tab

Just recently, a client of mine wanted to change their email platform over to Google Apps. The main reason being that the default web-based platform for MediaTemple(MT) being “Horde” just wasn’t to their liking. So, since I provide & manage their hosting through MT, I thought it would be nice to write this out briefly since there isn’t much in the way of documentation on MT’s knowledgebase.

  1. Make sure you’ve backed up your existing email accounts on this domain to your liking, because we’re going live with Google Apps and Gmail through this process
  2. Login to your MT AccountCenter
  3. Choose the domain you’re interested in using Google Apps on, and select “Edit Zone File”
  4. Remove any existing MX records
  5. Add the additional 5 MX and 1 Cname records from below to your zone file
  6. The last step requires you to login to your Plesk Control Panel and switch off the mail services for the domain in question
  7. That should do the trick…We’re just directing your mail services to Google, and if you decrease the TTL it should replicate quicker than usual

1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
10 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
10 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
5 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
5 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
CNAME - ghs.google.com.

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