Category: Technology

Software is getting larger and larger, without adding many useful new features.

Wordpress is known for its extensive collection of themes and plugins. A blogger who is self-hosting a Wordpress blog (as opposed to using wordpress.com) can find plugins for nearly any task, and the selection of themes is almost overwhelming – and there is no end in sight. More are coming out almost daily.
John’s Joint and [...]

Permalinks are now finalized to use the form “ht…am.org/politics/apologies-100/”. For just a short time, they were set to use the form “ht…am.org/politics/apologies/”. I found a way to use both forms of permalinks at the same time.
When I finally figured out and fixed what had been the cause of the categories links being broken, [...]

The currently-enabled theme is called Violinesth Forever. The original header photo was one of a violin (see below) but I changed it just to make sure it can be done with this theme. (It can…duh!) The temporary header photo is one I took with a cheap digital camera (1280×960, 2.0 megapixels) when [...]

This discussion will include some technical details for any of you who might be as “geeky” as John or me. <grin!> (See John’s “About Me” page for links to a couple of tests to find out how geeky you are.) The tech details will be at the end of the article.
The problem with the category [...]

A couple of posts ago, I mentioned that I am working on learning how to create websites using Drupal which is an open source Content Management System, or CMS.
Well, I took the plunge, and have setup the basic framework for my Church’s website using Drupal.  It still needs a lot of work, but I believe [...]

I am currently experimenting with a Content Management system called Drupal. It is an open source product with a lot of promise.  Visit my test site here.

Related Reading:
ASP.NET 3.5 CMS Development
Creating Content Management Systems in Java (Charles River Media Programming)
Using Drupal
Drupal For Dummies

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The more I use Internet Explorer Seven, the better I like Firefox.  Because of that, I am participating in the Firefox Download Day 2008.  Click the picture to find out more.

I wonder if their servers will be able to handle the load!

Related Reading:
Programming Firefox: Building Rich Internet Applications with XUL
Windows Internet Explorer 7, Illustrated Essentials (Illustrated [...]

I am experimenting on one of my other sites with an open source content management system called Joomla.  Hopefully, this post will be picked up by the newsreader module at http://geofam.net/joomla.   If so, I may add a lot of the feeds I would like to subscribe to to my Joomla page.

Related Reading:
Using Joomla: Building Powerful [...]

Well, I finally took the plunge and built a computer to run Microsoft Vista.  It is very different from Windows XP.  It requires 512 megabytes of RAM in order to install, and has some very serious video card requirements.
I have found workarounds for several of my older peripherals and applications, so i don’t need to [...]