MySQL Views to the Rescue!
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 [...]
Joomla! Applications: The Basics
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 [...]
All Work and No Play Makes Eric Wish He Could Post Here More
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, [...]
Gentle Beginnings is live, but not quite finished!
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.
Joomla site progress
I’ve probably covered about 85% of the necessary styles for my template, and now have a screenshot of the progress so far:
The Joomla! 1.5 Experience
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 [...]