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Ok, we’re addicted. Since we gave up TV for Lent, we have found
ourselves watching less TV than we used to. Amazingly enough, we
have once again become obsessed with watching recorded television and
skipping commercials. Should we dare watch something “live” we
instantly get cranky when a commercial comes on and we can’t skip
over it.

Since our daughter’s room is so close to the living room, we hardly
ever watch tv in the evenings for fear of waking her up. So, we
broke down and blew $50 on a refurb TiVo for the bedroom. 🙂

Since TiVo won’t connect via Vonage I’m going to take it to the
office tomorrow to configure it via a regular land-line. By
Wednesday night, we’ll be a spoiled little two-TiVo family. 😉

It’s time to fire up the blog again. It has been nine months since I
last posted anything and well over a year since I wrote regularly.
I’ve given up on Radio Userland as I wasn’t a fan of their annual
subscription and terribly slow evolution. Instead, I’m jumping on the
WordPress bandwagon. It’s built on my two favorite technologies: PHP &
MySQL.

Just in case you’re looking for any of the previous links or
information, you can find the original site located by clicking on the
“Original Web Site” link on the right.

More To Come….

Andy

For other Radio blogging software users: How to backup and restore your weblog. Funny — deja-vu. I was going though my preferences files in Radio last night and found the back-up feature, and clicked on it — I was thinking it was a great idea and wondering how on earth I'd missed seeing it before. Heh. Because it wasn't there as a feature until Friday! [[ t e c h n o \ c u l t u r e ]]

TextPattern – SUCCESS!

It installed and functioning – albeit, not entirely 100%. I'm not quite ready to share my web location yet since it is still very “beta” and I'm not quite comfortable with the code yet.

Dean has been very responsive though and I expect that TextPattern will be a huge success in the coming months.

More to come….

TextPattern Update

Off to a good start, but stalled at the configuration. It seems that some variables aren't making it to the right destination during setup. I'll post the solution as soon as I figure it out or Dean points me in the right direction. – Andy

TextPattern Beta!!

Yeah!!!

Get your copy here.

TextPattern

I have been biting my nails with great anticipation for the public release of TextPattern, the PHP-based weblog application. The message on the current site?

upgrading to latest build

Maybe I'm one step closer to my lucky day!!

Integrating DreamWeaver and PHP.

Integrating DreamWeaver and PHP

Since this came out a week ago (I feel so behind!), I suspect a lot of you have seen this but for those that haven't, here's a good article on DreamWeaver and PHP:

… but MX finally offered a simple tool for rapidly building database-driven sites using two widely-supported open source technologies: PHP and MySQL.

Unfortunately, if you've used Dreamweaver MX to build ASP, ColdFusion, or JSP sites, you'll notice that the program's PHP offerings fall a bit short. Some standard features, such as password-protecting web pages, or options for formatting dates and numbers, are missing from Dreamweaver's PHP server model. To add insult to injury, if you want to get some of that missing functionality, you'll have to shell out $99 for Macromedia's Developer Resource Kit Volume 2–an add-on that also includes new tools for other Macromedia products such as Flash, Fireworks, and ColdFusion MX.

But there's no need to settle for less, or shell out money for features that should have come with the program. With a little time spent browsing the web, you'll be able to bring Dreamweaver's PHP support up to speed, for free. [_Go_] (emphasis mine)

Note: I'm not a DreamWeaver fan or user as the UI gives me hives so I can't comment in detail on it but it seems right.

[The FuzzyBlog!]

Error Handling, Apache and PHP.

Error Handling, Apache and PHP

I'm on record as using this for my sites so here's a good tutorial that I can endorse fully:

Using PHP and Apache, you can turn your “Page Not Found” messages into more than bland error reports. You can serve an alternate page based on the name of the page that was not found, create a page on the fly from a database, or send an email about the missing page to a webmaster. [_Go_]

How else do you think you got this beautiful picture?  True there are a lot more things I could have done with it (which are covered in this tutorial).

[The FuzzyBlog!]

Post-Traumatic Postcards

Post-Traumatic Postcards is the latest bit from one of my favorite new authors, Leslie Harpold. The writing is in a great web site called The Morning News.