Tag Archives: PHP
PHP and MySQL on Snow Leopard
I just got PHP and MySQL working on my computer. I am now restarting my web development business and I needed a test server running on my computer. Apache 2 and PHP 5.3 come already installed and compiled on Mac Snow Leopard. I followed the great tutorial found on www.dwfaq.info. I had to move a [...]
How to Setup your WordPress Blog
I use WordPress for my blog, and I have had many friends and students ask how they can set up and customize their own WordPress blog. I would recommend that you go to and read the relevant areas in WordPress documentation. This documentation is called a Codex. It not only shows in words and videos [...]
Dreamhost Announces Free Hosting for Open-Source Apps
Dreamhost announced they are presently offering free web hosting for apps like WordPress and Drupal. This means you would get free PHP and MySQL servers for your dynamic web site. Very cool. Dreamhost is my hosting company and I love their service. I really don’t pay that much for tons of space and bandwidth, but [...]
Updating WordPress Templates
Functionality in WordPress templates I found the cutest WordPress template for my new blog at http://scribblescratch.com/. It is so cute, but out of the box, it doesn’t have much functionality. I had to add a “few” things to this template to have the functionality that I have on this techy, edu blog. There are two [...]
Customizing the new template for my new blog
I have now spent quite a bit of time adding dynamic code in my new, pretty WordPress template. Most important is that I needed an working search engine implementation of code that is built to work with the content of the blog without having to implement Google search engine code. The search engine actually searches [...]
My new, personal blog
I have started a new blog that goes beyond this blog. This current blog has developed into a blog that I use for professional and educational purposes. However, I really like to post a journal type blog a couple of times a week. However, this blog has become so serious that I haven’t felt I [...]