Entries from Geeky Baldisms tagged with 'PHP'

Taking a Sip of the MS Kool-Aid

I have just returned from a week of asp.net training, at the behest (and the kind compliments of) my employer. First impression: I've given dot net programmers WAY too much credit. With Visual Studio, asp.net is quite simple to pick...

Joomla'ed Out

Joomla looked like the perfect contact management system for me. Back in 2006, I created a bonzer site for a Realtor based on Mamboserver. Its backend interface was weird beyond belief, but I was impressed with what I was able...

Bad Behavior (Not Really!)

I manage a handful of blogs, doing a better job of keeping everything updated with some than with others. One of the biggest PITA's that a site owner has to deal with nowadays is comment spam. It's not unusual for...

Tackling a Big Project: The Final Chapter

This big move to a dedicated server is now complete. And I would like to give an unpaid, hearty endorsement to my new hosting company, jtlnet.com, at this point. I didn't hear anything for two days after ordering my dedicated...

Tackling a Big Project - Part 2

I received instructions for logging into my dedicated server on Friday afternoon about 3:00 local time. It is now Sunday, 10:20 AM and I am pretty much done. Total; time spent moving stuff: about 15 hours. I am receiving help...

Tackling a Big Project

I've been a bluehill.com customer for many years. I believe it was 1999 when I started hosting my sites with them. I used a VPS type system until 2006, then switched to a dedicated server. The price is decent, only...

Shameless Unpaid Endorsement: The Open Technology Group

In a couple of weeks, I'm off to Raleigh, North Carolina for my third consecutive year of a week's worth of training with Chander Ganeson at The Open Technology Group. The training you receive for the price that you pay...

Regular Expressions

PHP is a simple programming language with a lot of horsepower. That's why I love working with it. But to take advantage of some of its most useful features, you need to have at least some basic knowledge of regular...