Posts under ‘Programming’

WordPress is the software I run this, and several other websites on. One reason I like WordPress is it’s plugin structure. Plugins add features and functions to your website. Here are my favorites:
All In One SEO Pack is a complete search engine optimizer. It combines the best practices in search engine [...]

There isn’t anything better to learn the concepts of programming than Scratch, a GUI based, programming kit from MIT. It’s like programming with Lego Blocks!
I started programming with BASIC, FORTRAN and COBOL in the 70s, and I have programmed in C, C+, Pascal, COBOL, FORTRAN, PERL, Assembly and all kinds of scripting languages. Noting is [...]

I wrote an article for GroovyGreen.com about 30 used greenhouse panels I picked up last weekend. I got a phenomenal price, all 30 for $50.They are 4 feet x 8 feet and normally sell for about $40 each.
Read the rest of the story here.

I ran into a bug using the Zeke template for WordPress . Zeke is a very nice 3 column theme by Michael D. Pollock.
There isn’t an easy way to implement 3 columns in CSS and Zeke does it as two, two column groups.

#wrap , 960px wide

#contentleft, float left, within #wrap

#contentPost (s)float left, within #contentleft
#midcontentfloat [...]

There are posts on it at Zedomax, Digg.com and The Edge of I-Hacked. Click here to Google it…
I have read that Toshiba has sent a “cease and desist” letter to people posting the key on the web. I’ve tried to verify that information, but can’t actually find the pages, only links to pages that [...]

SmallBASIC is a free, cross platform BASIC on SourceForge. SmallBASIC runs on Windows, Linux, DOS, PalmOS and Nokia 7790. It is a great tool to teach programming or just for tinkering.
I have it on my home computer and on my Palm Pilot. I originally downloaded it to teach programming to my kids. [...]

TrueCrypt is free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux. I use at work and at home.
Edited to add:

These instructions were written for version 4.3a and will work for version 6.0.
I also have an easy to follow HowTo using TrueCrypt’s built in “Traveling Disk Setup”
Additional information on making AUTORUN work…

It is possible [...]

Last week, Lifehacker listed EverNote as the download of the day. EverNote reminds me of the Newton interface, often described as an endless roll of toilet paper. Some of the drawing tools were similar also. I was really excited with the possibilits, but was not going to pay for the Pro version, [...]

I have a new laptop at home, thanks to a friend of mine. It is an HP Omnibook XE GD. 850 Mhz AMD Duron, 256M RAM.  In the spirit of keeping it green, it’s a hand-me-down of a hand-me-down and I’m proud to have it.  I was able to load Windows XP without [...]

Transitioning from Netfirms.com to MyHosting.com was amazingly simple. Ericsprojects.com is running on WordPress for the blog and Coppermine Photo Gallery (CPG) for the photo albums. Both use SQL databases to store the information, so the process involved was to export the databases, copy the website files to the new host, then recreate the [...]