On Yahoo! Slurp, Googlebot, and msnbot

• April 16, 2006
• James Skemp

Being able to look at the statistics for a couple of different sites, with very different audiences, I've found one common thread, which is quite alarming. Before you go any further, it has to do with bots and search engines, so if you're not interested in either, you can probably safely skip this post.

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Using the templates - next planned article

• April 1, 2006
• James Skemp

The next article I'll be writing (Sunday night probably) will finally be on using those templates that I had mentioned in an earlier post, to create a basic Web site.

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What makes great technical support?

• March 22, 2006
• James Skemp

For work today, I sent off an email to support for a product that we purchased, FusionReactor (an application for helping analyze/debug ColdFusion). About an hour later, one of their support members called me up and talked me through the answers to the questions I had raised.  He also went above and beyond what I had asked by digging deeper into what we were looking for, and even went so far as to suggest that we could send on some log files for them to peruse.

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Google Page Creator and layouts (and CF 7)

• March 20, 2006
• James Skemp

I got my Google Page Creator invite a short time ago, and just setup my account (less than 2 minutes ago, as of this writing).

I haven't had much time to play around with it, obviously, but I'm impressed by the sample layouts they have. I might actually bounce around a little bit, until I find one that I can make my own.

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Call for database requests

• March 17, 2006
• James Skemp

In a future tutorial I'll be walking through the setup of a database using PHP and MySQL (and possibly in the future, PHP and PostgreSQL). To that end, I'm looking for database setup requests.

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Printer friendly pages

• March 1, 2006
• James Skemp

I've added a print stylesheet to the WordPress pages. This should make this content a lot more printer friendly.

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New WordPress plugin installed - word count and estimated reading time

• February 25, 2006
• James Skemp

After having seen a blog that did it, I've installed a nifty little WordPress plugin that displays word count, image count, and estimated reading time. For some of my articles, the estimated reading time is going to be far off, but ... it's nifty nonetheless.  Reminder - I'll be posting the 'second part' of the MySQL tutorial tonight.

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Taking a break from the tutorial

• February 23, 2006
• James Skemp

Tomorrow, I'll be posting the tutorial on setting up MySQL. However, for today, I won't be posting a new tutorial, as I've already spent the last hour writing one on setting up ColdFusion (which is the fourth tutorial I have to post, the MySQL one for tomorrow being the first).

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Planned updates for the next couple of days

• February 22, 2006
• James Skemp

Since I've got a couple more days worth of tutorials already written, and since things are now going relatively smoothly (I had a couple of problems with the MySQL implementation as a whole), I figured I would give an update to what I've been doing, and what I will be doing. Tonight, I'll be posting the tutorial on getting PHP up and running.  Within a day, or maybe two, of doing that, I'll be walking through the installation of MySQL and phpMyAdmin.

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Apache, PHP, MySQL, ColdFusion, and all the like

• February 14, 2006
• James Skemp

Near the end of the January, I talked about installing ColdFusion on my home computer. Starting this week (hopefully), I'll be writing a number of posts detailing how to go about doing these installations, with the express purpose of creating an environment for the testing of Web pages, or the learning of HTML/PHP/ColdFusion.

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