Community Color News

Connecting communities in the Mountain West.

Monday, February 20, 2017

The Martyrdom of Parley Pratt

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I was raised in Denver and grew up loving the history of the Old West. One of my goals in creating the Community Color sites was that sit...
Thursday, February 16, 2017

New Site and Advertising

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I am finalizing the the new site design for Community Color. I have only two sites pointed at the new server. The new site is much faster ...
Monday, February 06, 2017

Reviving Utah Color

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I have put this project off for too long! I am in the last stages of moving the Community Color sites to the new server. Due to changes in...
Saturday, November 26, 2016

Small Business Special

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At the dawn of the Internet, I realized that small business was likely to get the shaft while big businesses make big deals between themselv...
Wednesday, September 07, 2016

Demise of ITT Tech

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Looks like The Obama Administration was successful in shutting  down ITT Tech. I wander if they will be able to shut down the University of ...
Tuesday, September 06, 2016

Replacing Affiliate Ads with Direct Ads

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I am upgrading the Community Color Web Sites to PHP 7. I am also replacing MySQL with SQLite3 and upgrading to HTML5. It's a big projec...
Monday, September 05, 2016

Still No Date Picker in Firefox

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I am bummed out. Firefox still hasn't implemented the date picker that was in the HTML 5 specs that came out a few years back. I hold ...
Friday, September 02, 2016

New Privacy Policy

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I created a new privacy policy page for the Communtiy Color sites. The privacy policy tells the world that [gasp] I track activity on th...
Thursday, September 01, 2016

Online Advertising

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I've been working on upgrading the Community Color sites. The process is taking longer than I had hoped. The new design will offer tar...
Monday, August 08, 2016

SQL Table Object

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I open sourced the code for the object I use to create simple HTML tables. This is somewhat of a Swiss Army Knife object that can be used to...
Friday, August 05, 2016

Path to Citizenship?

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In 2013, the US naturalized 777,416 immigrants. The chart on uscis.gov indicates that the United States has naturalized well over a half mi...
Monday, August 01, 2016

Redirects and Broken Links

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The migration to the new server is going slow. I am rewriting each line of code. Oddly, my programming style is becoming more Spartan. with ...
Thursday, July 21, 2016

First Page

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I am still extremely unhappy with the PHP Object Model. But I simply have to move my sites to a new server or perish. Anyway, I just creat...
Monday, July 18, 2016

Recoding Site

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I need to get myself in gear and start programming again. The problem I face is that PHP deprecated the mysql_query () function and wants ...
Saturday, May 21, 2016

Starting the Web Site Move

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Users of the Community Color sites may have noticed that the sites are overloaded. I added some come that drops the page when the serverloa...
Thursday, May 12, 2016

In Passing

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My father passed away today. It was an expected event after months in rehab and hospice; So, I didn't get a chance to work on my website...

Migration to VPS.net

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Hurray, VPS.net finally added a template for Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus). This LTS (Long Term Support) release includes PHP7. LTS means that...
Saturday, April 16, 2016

Account Maxed

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I apologize for the intermittent delays and outages on the Community Color sites. It appears that I've maxed out the resources on my a...
Saturday, February 13, 2016

At the Center of Every Tribe There is a Chief

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Many groups and businesses these days have taken to calling themselves "tribes." At first I thought the trend was cute. The ter...
Sunday, January 17, 2016

Referrer Report and Link Development

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The migration to my new server is taking longer than expected. I keep hitting diversions and suffer long interruptions. Yesterday, I had a...
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