Tutorials, thoughts, and rants about programming.
I was recently presented with the challenge of aggregating database hits for content that is e-mailed and commented on. My gut reaction was to think of a PHP script, or perhaps set of scripts to filter & count the database rows. Script processing of data sets with proper ORM can yield very meaningful information to [...]
As I posted in a previous blog, the Gentle Beginnings site that I left over a half a year ago was 90% done, but was missing one core feature – the ability to post and read birthing stories. Recently I revisited this site to add the birthing story component, and learned a couple of hard [...]
These past 3 months have been very exciting for me – I started a new job in Web Development working with a commercial open-source CMS by a company named NStein. We are currently in the 3.x branch of their software, aptly named WCM (Web Content Management…how creative…) 3.x is very extendable, but its out-of-the-box functionality [...]
The Gentle Beginnings web page, http://www.gentlebeginningsnj.com, is available to view now. It has been flushed of *most* of the Joomla content, so by the end no Joomla-related content will be viewable.
I’ve probably covered about 85% of the necessary styles for my template, and now have a screenshot of the progress so far:
I recently was contracted to do a web site for a nurse midwife, who up till now has been using two-page site piggybacked on a friend’s server. It is the most basic of basic sites, and while it has pertinent contact information it has a circa-1996 flavor to it. What she wants is [...]