AIR, the Adobe Integrated Runtime, is part of the Adobe Flash platform that allows you to build and deploy a RIA (Rich Internet application) that will work the same whether you are on a Windows 7 machine, Windows XP, Apple Mac, and hopefully soon, the Android mobile phone platform. This evening I decided to investigate AIR development a little, and I have created my...

I was looking for a way to override the default version of jQuery that is being used in WordPress 2.9x and I came across this article that explains how to do this. It doesn’t say in the article where you place this function, but I figured that I’d slide it into the functions.php in my active theme and this did the trick. Read the full article and get the...

I was creating a custom theme for a website that I work on – www.f1weekly.com – and I was getting some strange behavior with the default WordPress pagination. Using the standard code, as found in the "default" theme included with WordPress, I used the following code to create my pagination links in my templates:  <div...

I was having an issue with setting up PEAR Library with PHP on my Linux box that runs Plesk, so after some research and a little help from the support team at HostMySite.com I came up with the following. To run PEAR you obviously have to have it installed, so once you have done that, you will need to create a vhost.conf file for the domain that you wish the library...

So, I’ve been working all day to get a site converted from Coldfusion to PHP. This seems like a backwards why to do something, given the power of Coldfusion, but there is a reason to the madness. But after trying to work on this sporadically all day while trying to look after Charlotte, I have given up and I’m about to install WordPress and use that as a...