September 28, 2011 — Local development refers to the process of building a website or Web application from the comfort of a virtual server, and not needing to be connected to the Internet in order to run PHP and MySQL or even to test a contact form. One of the most annoying parts of development, … Read More…

September 21, 2011 — While many functions you already use in WordPress communicate with the database there is an easy and safe way to do this directly using the_$wpdb class. Built on the great_ezsql class by Justin Vincent,_$wpdbwill allow you to address queries to any table in your database, … Read More…

December 21, 2010 — Building a beautiful design is a great experience. Seeing the design break apart when people start putting in real content, though, is painful. That’s why testing it as soon as possible with real information to see how it fares is so important. To this end, Web … Read More…

March 25, 2009 — The most popular and best open source database is MySQL. Simple as that. It is consistently fast , reliabile and very, very easy to use. One of MySQLs main features is its cross-platform support, it will run on almost all operating systems, including Windows, OSX, Linux and … Read More…