PHP Hacks has a tutorial using the PEAR SOAP module of PHP to pull data for use on your site. There are many other ways of doing similar things a lot of which deal with RSS feeds since they have become so popular, but this tutorial does a pretty good job of explaining how to use SOAP with Google’s web services. Read the rest of this entry »

Howto forge has another tutorial on setting up LAMP on the latest version of Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu is definitely my Linux flavor of choice probably because it’s the easiest for me to setup and somewhat resembles my favorite platform of choice Mac OS X. The LAMP stack runs well on Ubuntu and for the most part has gotten a lot easier to install. I no longer have weird issues where I ask myself why is it doing that, and have no explanation. Read the rest of this entry »

CNET News.com had a post a couple days ago about LAMP in the industry. For those of you that don’t know LAMP is Linux operating system, Apache Web Server, MySQL database, and a scripting language such as PHP, Perl, or Python. Many times I will use this system on Mac OS X and use PHP as my scripting language of choice. Read the rest of this entry »

I recently blogged on “The Perfect Setup” for SuSE and Howto forge has another tutorial describing the perfect setup using Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server (Dapper Drake). Since this is the Linux of choice for me, it’s a much better tutorial for me to follow when I create my server installations. I know many people like Ubuntu as well so this should help some. Most people that are doing installations like this already have a pretty good idea on what they are doing, but well written documentation to use as a guide never hurt. Read the rest of this entry »

While my Linux platform of choice is still Ubuntu, there is a pretty good tutorial on Howto Forge on setting up services for an ISP such as web server, mail server, DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, Quotas, and Firewall. The author of the article chooses SuSE Linux for his installation, but this tutorial with a little bit of modification could be used on any flavor of Linux. If you are looking to use SuSE this may be a good tutorial for you to use to setup your machine. Read the rest of this entry »

Vitamin has a post by Cal Henderson for those creating next generation web applications that make heavy use of JavaScript and CSS. The main issue is the optimization of the content in order to give users the best possible experience when visiting the website. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve been hired quite a few times to skin different types of blogs software such as Wordpress. It’s actually pretty easy to do, but does take a little bit of time just because of the number of files that need to be edited to create a template. I recently came across a tutorial on The Undersigned with a pretty good explanation on how to go about creating a template for Wordpress. Read the rest of this entry »

There’s a pretty cool PHP 5 tool that converts HTML to PDF called dompdf. So what do you need to run this app? Well first you will need to download dompdf from Digital Junkies website. Your server needs to be running PHP 5 with the DOM extension enabled. There is also an option of installing additional fonts. Read the installation documentation to find out how to do this. Read the rest of this entry »