MAMP and WordPress Up and Running

September 16, 2009

Good to be back on the blog today! I actually had to work this week, I hate it when work gets in the way of my technology habit.

Last week I got MAMP on my MacBookPro up and running with WordPress Installed. It is the only way to go! I have to admit I have been [...]

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Stuff That Just Works: BackBlaze

September 10, 2009

Online Backup Service BackBlaze

I’ve tried and stopped four different online backup services until I came across BackBlaze. BackBlaze just works, I’ve had no negative issues. Download it, setup a few preferences and forget about it. I think everybody should have multiple backups of there stuff. I backup at home with SuperDuper but it’s wise [...]

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Pixelmator Rocks

September 10, 2009

Pixelmator Image Editing and More!

Pixelmator will blow your doors off! It was built exclusively for Mac OS X and it’s called the image editor for the rest of us. Lets face it Photoshop is expensive. I have Photoshop and I think you should too, but if you can’t afford it right now buy [...]

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State of Learning Update

September 10, 2009

This week is a little about organization and a new WordPress Theme that is fairly new with some pretty impressive customization built-in and finally a blog that I think way overdoes the advertising.

I am really finding I need some organization to my learning, there is so much to learn I am bouncing around trying to [...]

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MAMP on Vimeo

September 8, 2009

If you have started messing around with MAMP (Mac, Apache, MySQL, PHP)(It’s a Web-Server right on your computer) or WAMP (Windows) You’ll want to know about the new Video channel over at Vimeo.  Watching the videos to learn more is on my short list.
MAMP on Vimeo.

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Installing WordPress Manually?

September 8, 2009

Here’s a quick tutorial on installing WordPress Manually (in case your web-hosting company does not have a one-click install option)
In the Woods – Installing WordPress Manually.

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Tutorial from the book “Layers”

September 7, 2009

One of the tutorials from the book “Layers”. This is the one that teaches shape layers and making custom shapes.

See if full size at my flickr site here.

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Book Review: Layers by Matt Kloskowsi

September 7, 2009

I’ve been on a photoshop bender the past few weeks (needed a break from the JavaScript) and wanted to let you know about a great Photoshop book. I’ve been through the whole thing multiple times and have done all of the tutorials and cant say enough about this book for learning about layers and [...]

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Vintage Diary Photoshop Tut Rundown

September 7, 2009

Another photoshop tut! this one was endless for me, I tweaked and changed stuff for several days and finally just said enough is enough! You can tweak forever. The crux of the non-stop tweaking is photoshop skills or the lacking thereof…… you always want to make something look better or more realistic. But, this is [...]

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Great Site for Web-Site Tutorials

September 6, 2009

Wow, just found this one. I’ve looked at several and have had questions answered already.  Take a look around at these great tutorials on whatever you happen to be learning about; web programming, web design, css, database, php, ajax, moo tools and MORE. This is the site of Antonio Lupetti and he does a great [...]

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30+ PHP Best Practices for Beginners

September 5, 2009

I am just starting to dig into PHP and found this article on net tuts+ looks like a good place to begin. Some words of wisdom from the experienced to the beginner.  I have set up the MAMP server and installed an IDE (NetBeans), both easy to do now to get programming!
30+ PHP Best Practices [...]

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Making a Custom Web Page for Twitter

September 2, 2009

This one was fun! I really enjoyed it and it got me playing around with some new skills, using a background image in CSS, using absolute positioning and using Photoshop to make a custom background. Well here is how to start (all this stuff is not from me, I use the tutorials from really [...]

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State of Learning Update

September 1, 2009

This week has been full of playing with WordPress and tweaking my current theme. I see pro’s and con’s to working with a theme, the good is: that you have a fully functioning wordpress site up and running, you get to study somebody else’s CSS to see how they do things, and while your [...]

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Trailside Gourmet travel and cusine

September 1, 2009

A buddy of mine that I use to fly 747’s with has started a travel and cooking Web site.  He’s done a really nice job and his videos keep getting better and better. Travel around the world and explore great cusine…… Check it out!
Trailside Gourmet travel and cusine.

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How To Make a Unique Website Page For Your Twitter Updates

September 1, 2009

Earlier I posted about how to make a custom background for your twitter page.  This is a link to a great tutorial from Chris Coyier on how to make a whole web page for your twitter updates.  I’m going to give this one a whirl and if it works out I’ll post it on cliff538.com. [...]

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