It’s been an exciting first quarter this year in technology. Apache HTTPD 2.4 was just released (Apache is a very popular web server and this was a significant upgrade), and now PHP 5.4.0 just went live. PHP 5.4.0 is a big upgrade that I am very excited to start using. It includes a feature called [...]

WordPress 3.1 Beta 1 was just released and I’m already running it on one of my sites. It’s fantastic, they fixed and added quite a few nice things We have the ability to query multiple taxonomies now Custom post types can have archive/index pages (Using the template post-type-archive-{$post_type}.php) The link dialog box lets you search [...]

I’ve been using WordPress 3.0 at work for a month now, and what do I think of it? It’s fantastic! WordPress 3.0 added many new features, including custom menus which are extremely helpful for using WordPress as a CMS. WordPress 3 implemented over 200 fixes and features, so I recommend checking out the official site [...]

I’ve recently begun working at a company called Norex, which is a pretty good place to work at. I’ve already learned quite a bit, perhaps the most importing being Git. I don’t know why I didn’t know about this tool earlier, it’s fantastic! For those of you unfamiliar with it, it’s a version control system, [...]

Many of you should be familiar with PayPal and the shopping cart services they offer, namely PDT and IPN. IPN is the behind the scenes system that most shopping cart systems use, and if you are developing your own shopping cart system (like me), the IPN code may be a bit complicated. To allow you [...]