Recently I have been kicking around the idea of creating the main page of my blog to mimic that of a Magazine style layout. Displaying the most recent post at the top and then a breakdown of the next 4 posts in 2 columns each with excerpts is what I have had in mind. At the very bottom I have included the 2 most recent reviews I have done here on my site as well. It seems more people …

One of the tasks I have been looking into at work is the ability to use PHP to authenticate users against a Windows Active Directory (AD). After searching around on the internet I did manage to find a great little tutorial that helped explain the steps in searching the AD for a particular user and then if they existed to authenticate them with the submitted credentials.

While writing this post I have noticed that the blog that tutorial was written on …

A current project I am working on is with an open source software package called osCommerce and I must say it has been giving me some grief. Why grief you may ask? Well I’ve been looking the source code to modify the layout of this particular e-commerce software package and it has given me a new nightmare. A frightening nightmare due to the fact the whole entire layout is done with nested tables.

Tables, Tables, Tables!

There are nested …