An idea!
Brainwave! Instead of frustrating myself trying to pick an idea to run with, I’m going to pick an idea I came across in another website!
Gotta love plagarism 
While surfing around looking at various tools, technologies etc that might fit into Read more
What to do? Part Deux.
This is always the hardest part for me. Deciding what to do… Need to come up with a decent idea for a website that will allow me to play with the web technologies, still look good and Read more
What to do?
As mentioned before, my goal is to become conversant (hopefully proficient!) in web technologies. I’ve a lot to learn and understand. For me the best way to learn Read more
Get IT - WAMP (Windows Apache MySQL PHP)
One of the prerequistes for doing any web development is of course to have a webserver! For development purposes it is best to have this on your own machine, that way you can play and make mistakes without impacting anything ‘real’.
The most commmon webserver is Apache according to Netcraft survey on Web Servers , its also Open Source which is nice. What is also very convienient is that you can download easy to install versions of Apache, PHP and MySQL for Windows (WAMP!) .
The good folks over at WampServer have one such package. Essentially you download, execute the install package, follow the simple instuctions and there you have it, a fully functional webserver and database with PHP supported with minimal effort.
Blogs, What in earth are they for?
Obviously my first foray into ye olde web worlde was getting a blog up and running. As you can see here!
Why a blog? Well, why not… Its a diary for want of a better description and I need somewhere to Read more
Briask- Minor update to ImageSlideShow
- OK Computer! Just start already…
- What a to-do about what to do!
- Final Fantasy - take a listen.
- Return from Vacation!
- How to write a Joomla! 1.5 module.
- ImageSlideShow for Joomla! 1.5.x
- Image Slide Show and resizing images.
- Joomla! and more Music I Like
- Bug fixing for ImageSlideShow