Yes, this style is messed up

• January 2, 2006
• James Skemp

Yes, it's messed up. Yes, I don't have time to fix it. I'm exhausted :D

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WordPress 2.0? I guess I lied

• January 1, 2006
• James Skemp

So, I guess I lied about the upgrade to WordPress 2.0, as I just finished doing it. Doesn't look like one of the old plug-ins is going to work yet, but since I don't use it ...

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Why not start out 2006 right?

• January 1, 2006
• James Skemp

With the new year, comes a couple of smart technology reminders. Your computer can't stay clean by itself - make sure you're doing your part. And with the new year, and new month, why not verify things are up-to-date now?

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WordPress 2.0? Not yet

• December 31, 2005
• James Skemp

So, WordPress 2.0 is out.

Like many other people, however, I won't be upgrading. Check asymptomatic.net for a number of pros and cons on the issue ...

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An early happy New Year

• December 29, 2005
• James Skemp

While I thought I'd have time for my own site, after off-loading FramingBusiness.net to Gavin, I've been keeping quite busy elsewhere - online and off.  Ah well.

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PHP and MySQL work

• December 23, 2005
• James Skemp

I'm looking for ideas on what I can write in PHP and MySQL.  Thus far, I've written: 1) A comments system, that still gets hit by spam (but don't they all?). 2) An admin interface to upload documents, then create a record in a database for display elsewhere (along with categories and related articles/documents). I just don't know - what do I *need* for functionality?  Maybe I'll look further into creating a RSS reader - I just don't know .

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Tools of the Trade

• December 2, 2005
• James Skemp

Thanks to my sister still being in school, I've been able to pick up a number of very powerful commercial tools for fairly cheap. I'm big on free programs - Open Source being the key word these days - but sometimes the professional's tools are just more than all that.

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Ever had a reason to compare two files?

• November 21, 2005
• James Skemp

I talked about WinMerge a couple of posts ago (which has been updated, by the way, and which I've used a number of times for work), and now I'm going to talk about the equally free WinDiff.

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FramingBusiness.net comments

• November 12, 2005
• James Skemp

The last time I posted, I discussed a great article on PHP and MySQL. This time, over a week later, I'm discussing how I've used this information on the network.<!–more–><!–adsense–> On November 9, Gavin's <a href="http://framingbusiness.net/">FramingBusiness.net</a> went live with a new feature: functionality to collect, store, and display comments. Any article posted since June of 2005 will have this functionality, and many old ones, that have been converted over to PHP and the new layout, will also have this functionality.

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Great PHP and MySQL tutorial

• November 5, 2005
• James Skemp

There's a great tutorial over at http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/phpmysql detailing how to use PHP with MySQL. I worked through this tutorial, along with a couple of others, to setup a pretty simple PHP script. I'll be adding to it for a new gallery (as the old one is too bulky ... ).

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