Continuing to experiment with my XAMPP setup (Apache, MySQL, Perl and PHP for Windows XP), I just installed Joomla, a popular open-source content management system. It only took about 10 minutes to install Joomla 1.0 using these steps: Visit the Joomla project page and download Joomla Extract the files to c:\xampp\htdocs, making sure to use the folder names inside the Zip file (if done correctly, you should have a file c:\xampp\htdocs\joomla\index.php) Open the local phpMyAdmin page and login as root Select Databases and create a database named joomla with encoding utf8_unicode_ci Select Privileges tab and create a user joomla and password of your choice,…
With the launch of the iPhone, Apple has finally posted some documentation to help web designers understand the browsing capabilities of the mobile Safari browser: Web Development for iPhone. I was looking for this sort of information before the launch, but I guess it was under NDA. Maybe those who attended WWDC this year were privy to the info? In any case, the most interesting content is a guide titled Optimizing Web Applications and Content for iPhone. The guide gives a good explanation of the user interactions on the phone and explains how to target content, including some iPhone-specific meta tags…
Both Movable Type and WordPress are powerful, flexible blogging engines. Both are available in downloadable, install-it-yourself versions that can be uploaded to typical web hosting accounts that support Apache, MySQL, PHP and Perl. But, if you want to play with these tools locally, there’s a great package call XAMPP – “…an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl.” Once XAMPP is installed, your test bed is ready for applications like WordPress and Movable Type. Since it’s on your own Windows box, you can play around with configuration, templates, styles, and so on. I’m using it on Windows…
While helping my kids type their reports in Microsoft Word, I was explaining the virtues of saving their work frequently. They didn’t think anything of it, but I had a brief epiphany moment when I realized we’re still using the 3.5 inch floppy disk as the standard “Save” icon. My kids now associate that little icon with saving, but have never needed to use an actual floppy disk. I wonder for how many years will still be using that icon? Searching the web, I found a couple of related articles: Editing documents as playing music by Matt Webb Modernizing the…
Trying out Windows Live Writer on my MovableType blog.