Every so often I like to look at various aspects of my blog and tinker with them. It's nice to change things up a little bit but after doing a new blog theme for my site, Robyn pointed out the new layout lacked some items it previously had that she liked. The Categories on the sidebar and the Navigation links on the single page. I remember reading (not that I remember … Continue Reading »
Recently I was asked to look at modifying a 'Premium' WordPress theme and while browsing through the code of the theme I noticed a couple things that people should be wary of when purchasing themes, or at least in my opinion. In today's day and age in the World Wide Web there are various good practices a designer and/or developer should look at when creating websites or themes for web … Continue Reading »
As some of you have seen via Twitter I have been starting to post links to a blog called WestCoastAlpine.com. What some of you might not know is what this blog is about, hopefully I can help explain it in case you were curious. If you are into winter activities in British Columbia or just in general I recommend following our updates (you can subscribe to the RSS feed) as … Continue Reading »
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 »