One thing I find myself doing is constantly learning, especially when it comes to knowledge related to web design and development. I have always had a dislike for school but at the same time I have always enjoyed learning about whatever I can. With web development I have been looking to further my skill set and in an effort to do so I have been looking to branch off into … Continue Reading »
Today is one of those creative days I have where I like to think about 'what can I do to make my site more interesting?' Well as I was browsing over at John's new layout which was designed by UBD I noticed that he displays his Twitter follower count in a dynamically generated graphic that was created by TwitterCounter. I looked over at TwitterCounter to see what they were about and … Continue Reading »
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 … Continue Reading »
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 … Continue Reading »
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 … Continue Reading »
I received a phone call from my brother on Thursday afternoon saying that one of my computers was making an annoying beeping sound. He placed his phone next to the computer and it was a dreaded infinite beep. He asked me what he could do to make it stop and I told him to pull the plug. I knew what it meant. Recently I have been building a LAMP Server so … Continue Reading »
Well over the last couple of days I’ve been wanting to build myself a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server at home for my web developing needs and finally was able to pick up the last parts I needed; case, PSU, video card and CPU Heatsink. For the guts of the development server this is what it will have: A generic case with a generic 450W power supply Asus A8N-e Motherboard AMD 64 3200+ … Continue Reading »
One thing that I tend to do when I visit a website that peeks my interest is to check out the company that designed it, if they provide that information. Most of the time I will check out a web designer's website if their client site I am visiting looks great and I am curious as to what other websites they have in their portfolio, other times I want to … Continue Reading »
Do you like change? I like change, well most of the time anyway. Currently I am slowly making subtle changes to my blog since I went from a Custom Blog Engine (of my design) to the so ever popular Wordpress solution. I have had to edit some of the CSS to get my Order Lists (<ol>) and Unordered Lists (<ul>) to show up properly as well as some spacing and alignment … Continue Reading »
I’ve been learning how to create Wordpress themes (templates) and I am surprised that they are not too difficult to create. If you have knowledge in CSS, HTML and some PHP it’s pretty straight-forward in creating a theme. What I have been working on is converting my custom blog script into a theme for Wordpress. So far it’s going pretty well and when I am done, there shouldn’t be too much … Continue Reading »