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Jun 11 2009

J2Davis.com is featured on We Love WP!

Posted by jacq

Since we have recently launched the new custom designed J2Davis.com, our personal blog, we have gotten lots of good feedbacks. We still are working to improve and add features to share all the cool things we see on the road.

Yesterday, we are proud to be listed on We Love WP, a gallery portal featuring outstanding custom designed web sites powered by WordPress. We welcome comments and feedback if you would like to vote or contribute to the listing.

Thank you WeLoveWP for listing us. We will be working on the redesign of Jacq Design Blog Station and hopefully get to be featured on WeloveWP too.

May 05 2009

Working and learning in Phoenix, Arizona

Posted by jacq

The heat, the constant sunshine, and the beautiful desert landscape makes this a perfect place for us to stay and work. Arizona is now on the top of our list to consider staying for a little longer than just a month or two.

Jeremy and I went to another tour at the Taliesin West couple weekends ago since our first visit in 2005, this time, it really inspired us to pursue their Bachelor of Architectural Studies later in our career. Not just to extend our skill set, but also for personal grow as individuals.

The small scale environment offers course consist of rigorous design, critical thinking, and hands-on learning. Designing architecture through living, experiencing and learning of the environment and people you are designing for makes the final product more well thought out and like they say in Taliesin - more “organic.”

We try to build our design and web program through our client’s and their consumers’ eyes, but we never quite took the step to physically experience it. Most of the time we spend lots of hours researching and understanding the business and the target audience. I think learning at Taliesin, will make us better at observing and learning our client’s needs than ever before.

Mar 23 2009

We have moved our personal blog entries to J2Davis.com

Posted by jacq

Dear friends and family,

We have decided to move our personal blog entries to J2Davis.com. We will be blogging about professional development and more business related topics here on Jacq Design Blog Station.

Thank you so much for visiting!

More news to come.

Mar 25 2008

wordpress modification of IIS

Posted by jeremy

So the wife asked me to look at her blog and see if I can fix a problem after she installed some plugin called akismet. The problem was that the paging on this page was broke, because the link didn’t actually have the php file, it had the base uri /blog/wp-admin/ and the query string piece ?apage=2 but no file. So a mouse over showed http://domain/blog/wp-admin/?apage=2

After digging a lot, I realized it had nothing to do with the plugin, and it was related to the $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] not working right in IIS. More testing outside wordpress showed that $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] was completely empty. But in wordpress it seemed to just lack the actual file.

So tracking it down, word press has a functions.php file in the wp-includes that has a add_query_arg() function.

So I made this modification at the beginning of it…


if ( is_array(func_get_arg(0)) ) {
if ( @func_num_args() < 2 || false === @func_get_arg(1) ){
$sourceurl = $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] . substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],'?'));
$uri = $sourceurl;
}else{
$uri = @func_get_arg(1);
}
} else {
if ( @func_num_args() < 3 || false === @func_get_arg(2) ){
$sourceurl = $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] . substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],'?'));
$uri = $sourceurl;
}else{
$uri = @func_get_arg(2);
}
}

It seems to work now, so hopefully someone else may find it useful also.

Aug 06 2007

Our co-founder Jeremy Davis is now working full time with JacQ Design

Posted by jacq

A big step for us everyone!

Jeremy has put in the two week notice to Sterling Commerce and will start a full time work schedule with JacQ Design!

Great new for us and our customers.

We will be visiting Columbus the week of August 13th through August 24th to meet with clients, friends and family.

Our business decision now calls for a more money conscious lifestyle, but a good change for us. This also means that full time RV living might be a little farther away from reality from our original plan.