Dynamic DNS For Home Serving With No-IP

Got a pcDuino3S running Linaro 12.07 [Linux] set up to run the No-IP dynamic DNS update client (DUC). These details should also work for a home server running Ubuntu or Lubuntu.

No-IP is a provider of Domain Name (DNS) services, and they have a free tier which you can use to dynamically map a domain name host to your home server's external IP address.

Wireless Drivers on Lubuntu

To get the wireless working on Ubuntu or Lubuntu on a reformatted/repurposed Dell Precision M6400 laptop with a Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01) network controller:

sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer
sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree
sudo modprobe b43

Sources

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BroadcomSTA(Wireless)
• Ubuntu Forums -> Networking & Wireless
• Ubuntu Forums -> Thread: Broadcom BCM4312 not working / package firmware-b43-lpphy-installer issue

Home Ventrilo Server On Lubuntu

Got an old laptop running Lubuntu to host a Ventrilo server. This will also work for Ubuntu.

Setting Up SSH on Lubuntu

To install SSH on Ubuntu/Lubuntu:

sudo apt-get install openssh-server

Finding An Artist For The Devil Music Web Comic

This is the story of how we got a web comic artist for the Devil Music comic, by Carly Orosz to accompany her novel by the same title.

tl;dr: Carly selected Candace Ellis, whom we found on deviantART, and the comic is still going!

Limited Landing Page Display

In order to increase awareness and sales ("conversions" of site traffic to customers) of the book "Devil Music" by Carly Orosz, the promotional landing page is now displayed to new visitors instead of the homepage.

Using Sublime Text Editor With PHP

Do you have a brand new installation of the Sublime Text editor which you plan on using for PHP (or any other language which identifies special strings, like variable names, with a symbol, like the dollar sign '$')? Don't forget to change the Preferences > Settings -- Default > "word_separators" to remove that dollar sign (or other symbol). Now your copy-paste won't keep losing your '$'.

• http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2704

Internet Advertisement Images For Devil Music

Created a few different size formats of the same image concept to be used in advertising Devil Music on the internet.

Posting Code To A Blogger Blog

Added support to this blog for syntax-highlighted code blocks in this blog using SyntaxHighlighter by Alex Gorbatchev.

Navigation Bar Gadget

Added a navigation bar to this blog, currently hosted on Blogger, as an HTML/JavaScript gadget (widget).

Devil Music 5.5" x 8.5" Paperback Edition

The Devil Music 5.5" x 8.5" paperback edition is now available through CreateSpace. This took longer than the ebook editions because I did order a proof copy of the book. You can get it [HERE].

Repairing A Hijacked Page

Repaired a hijacked community page.

Website Security with SSL

Got a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate, acquired from Namecheap, issued by RapidSSL, installed on the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) web server instance hosting Devil Music.

Devil Music Kindle Edition & The Amazon Associates Program

The Devil Music Kindle edition is now available through Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) on Amazon.com. You can get it [HERE].

Devil Music EPUB Edition

The Devil Music ePub edition, DRM-free, is now available through Lulu.com. You can get it [HERE].

FTP Access to AWS EC2 Using FileZilla

Got File Transfer Protocol (FTP) access set up to the Devil Music web server instance on Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), using FileZilla.

Amazon Elastic IP and a Real Domain Name

Got an Elastic IP (EIP) for the Devil Music web server instance and configured it to use our own registered domain name using Route 53 for Domain Name System (DNS) service.

Up and Running with AWS EC2 LAMP Instance

Got an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account with an Amazon Linux Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance running (which you can connect to) with LAMP infrastructure configured to support a WordPress installation.

A Novel - Formatted for Self-Publication

Finished getting the novel Devil Music, by Carly Orosz, formatted for self-publication with the help of Custom-book-tique.

Book Cover Art

I got cover art for the novel Devil Music, by Carly Orosz using 99 Designs. The winning design was by jok.r (Ismail Nihad - on 99 Designs , on Facebook , on Tumblr ) from the Maldives []! It was a pleasure to work with him and Carly got exactly what she was looking for.

Bowker ISBNs for Self-Publication

Signed up with Bowker to get International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs) for the novel Devil Music, by Carly Orosz.