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    Using WordPress in multiple environments

    by  • April 10, 2011 • Development • 0 Comments

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    When developing software, it’s important to have different environments so that modifications made by developers don’t affect others outside their own “sandbox” or the “production” server. Best practices generally dictate three tiers: a local development environment for each developer, a staging environment to integrate changes from multiple developers, and a production environment. WordPress is...

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    Plone for Social Networking

    by  • April 4, 2011 • Development • 0 Comments

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    I’ve been collaborating with Chronicle Technologies, a technology consulting firm, on a number of Plone projects recently.  Much of my work has focused on developing a social networking product written in python that provides the community with ability to share content, comment on each other’s posts, and maintain a profile. In this site for...

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    Multiplication

    by  • April 2, 2011 • Development • 0 Comments

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    I built this simple web application to generate multiplication worksheets and puzzles for my kids who have been busy memorizing their multiplication tables.  I looked for something similar, but couldn’t find anything that quite fit what I was looking for.  There is a form that allows you select with numbers to use when producing...

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    Blackjack

    by  • April 2, 2011 • Development • 0 Comments

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    I created this blackjack game as part of a tutorial to teach a student some basics of ruby programming and web development. UPDATE: Here’s a link to Sam’s version of the game. It’s a little more polished then my initial implementation. I think he’s still planning to add more features. Anyway, nice work! It...

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    WordPress on OS X with Nginx, PHP, and mysql

    by  • March 31, 2011 • Development • 9 Comments

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    Recently, I wanted to do some WordPress development on my Mac.  I’ve got Ubuntu installed on a virtual machine, but I decided to get the stack running on OS X. I’ve been using Nginx for a while now as a web server, caching proxy, and load balancer for some Plone sites.   It’s been fantastic...

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