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WordPress Update 3.0

Jordan DeLoach — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 14:54:06 +0000

I just finished upgrades on the site to 3.0. I have not seen much changes, but it’s always good to be up to date. Just thought I would in form everyone of that.

My Programming Studio

Jordan DeLoach — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:28:39 +0000

A lot of people have trouble finding the perfect editor for whatever the might be doing in the programming world, or atleast I once did. I believe my setup is one of the better ones, but I know it comes nowhere close to Coda. When most people look for an editor they want it to do it all, SCP Support, SVN, or Code Highlighting. People are picky, that’s a plain fact, so they only way to please picky people is to let them make what they want.

Eclipse gives you that option, to easily and simply get everything you need, and nothing more. In my verrsion of Eclipse I start with Eclipse PDT, which stands for PHP Development Tools. It comes with the Web Tools Platform which includes Server Tools and an Ajax Framework. So now that I have my base setup, I will install some plugins via the handy-dandy and simple update manager in Eclipse. The first plugin is Subclipse which is a nifty Subversion client to go with the built in CVS client. Also to go with PHP I add Python support with PyDev and lastly I have SFTP support incase I need to jump onto a server and change something so I use JCrafts SFTP plugin for that.

Some tools I have read about that sound cool, and interesting, but I have personally never used are Zends Community Server Edition and their PHP Debugger, which both perfectly integrate with the Tools in PDT. And if you need anymore tools just Google it, I bet you someone has made a plugin for it. Thats what great about Eclipse, you build it, your way.

UPDATE

I tried something new today, I hadn’t been liking JCrafts SFTP plugin, it required me to export updates everytime I saved so I would use a built in “Remote Systems Explorer“. That had some errors in my PDT installation so I went and got a standard Java version from Eclipse.org, and installed RSE on the regular version. Now to get my PHP tools back follow the steps here to get the PHP tools on your version. And continue on like normal! This SFTP client is a one that works just like it’s a project instead of having to do a lot of work. Also Remote Systems Explorer does a lot more like Shell and stuff… garsh now it’s starting to sound like Coda.

Django – A Package of Amazing

Jordan DeLoach — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:47:29 +0000

At first I though people were overhyping Django, people always talking about the “simplicity of the templates” and the “awesome url builder”. I though well nothing can be that cool, it’s all the same PHP, Python, Ruby, what’s the difference? If you have never tried Python and Django, go ahead and point yourself at the Downloads section of Python and Django and get started! The templates really are super simple, and the url builders are sick. When I started doing Django the real first time I used it besides the templates was the pagination class. I had for months struggled to create a good PHP pagination class, but with Django it was right there out of the box ready to use!

I have tried PHP frameworks before such as CodeIgnitor, they were nice, but nothing special. Trust me, Django is special! It has so much available the second the installer says finish. If you have been procrastinating because you don’t know how to set it up on your server or something stop, don’t; host it on Googles servers! Google App Engine allows you to build Python and Java web applications on their fast, large infrastructure. It comes with a SDK for building apps and also with a localhost for building your applications. I have not tried out the Java part yet, but I have been enjoying creating a Twitter-like micro-blogging service on it. It is simple and you have access to all the tools that make Google so great like Gql and the WebAPP framework. It is really worth the time and someday maybe you will move your site over to Django and Python as I soon hope to do.

Case in point: If you haven’t tried Django, get out and do it, if you have don’t you love it?

Spell Your siteurl right!

Jordan DeLoach — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:00:09 +0000

This whole afternoon I was freaking out. Some how someone had infiltrated my site through WordPress and was redirecting it to an Ad Site! It was messing everything up and I started getting mad. Recently I had decided not to go with a www. infront of my url since that was old so I changed my site url. I wasn’t paying very good attention to it and made a small typo instead of “jtmcgee.net” I put “jtmcgee.net.net”. With the .net it is an domain parked add site which kept redirecting my page to it, and to complicate things more I had added a little update_options to set it to jtmcgee.net, trying to solve the problem but somehow it got switched to .net.net also. So I was fighting myself, after I remembered I did that I changed it and walla my site is saved! Sorry for the ugly down time!

WordPress Again

Jordan DeLoach — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:27:16 +0000

For some sad reasons, mostly due to spam, we have changed our CMS. Though I might not be making the CMS anymore, or atleast for the time being, I will still be themeing. I will continue on with my ideas I had planned for v2.2 and integrate them here. Also WordPress is just so pretty, I can spend more time blogging and designing and less time fixing bugs and trying to combat spammers. It’s been a year or two since I have used WordPress and boy, it’s changed a lot!