PHP project

I finally added blog-posting (sort of) on VBHistory.com. It wasn’t nearly as cumbersome as I’d expected. Not nearly as slow in displaying records either. I was prepared for horrors. I should have known better. And now I do.

VBlife.net comes to life

My first major PHP/mySQL project is finally walking. http://www.vblife.net
It’s intended for collecting everything I can think of about Virginia Beach into one place. I don’t have everything working yet, but most of it is. I could have held off longer but I felt it was close enough to unwrap it. I [...]

ASP, CFML, PHP

Back in 1994 when I first started cranking out HTML using vi on a Unix box, it was all HTML. Then came javascript and DHTML. Then came server-side scripting. The first language I learned was the infamous Cold Fusion. Touted for having the lowest learning ramp, it was an ideal tool [...]

From ASP to PHP

I started my web development life with ColdFusion and CFML, then moved to ASP. I tried ASP.NET but one thing after another seemed to prevent me from jumping with both feet. Timing mostly. I had all the tools and a decent amount of training to make the jump, but the timing was [...]

I miss my kayak

I had to sell my kayak last year in order to make a bill payment.  That’s life.  But I still miss paddling on the water around here.  Virginia Beach and the surrounding area is like an artery system of waterways, creeks, rivers, lakes, ponds, and the wide open Atlantic ocean.  A really great site, probably [...]