New Android Phone

July 30, 2010 by Linerd · Leave a Comment
Filed under: gadget 

So I finally got myself an Android smarphone. It's the HTC Incredible on Verizon Wireless. I'm still getting it figured out, but so far it's pretty cool. I downloaded the WordPress application for Android and I'm using it to write this post.

Well, I was able to upload the post, but it went in as a draft. It looks like I've got more to figure out.

Tux Tweaks Performance Enhancements

June 7, 2010 by Linerd · 2 Comments
Filed under: General, news, web development 

I spent a few hours this past weekend working on some performance optimization for the site. This site is run on the WordPress blogging software which has tons of great plugins available to add functionality. The downside to this is that most plugins tend to slow the website performance slightly. The exceptions to this are the plugins that are written specifically to speed up WordPress site performance. Read more

Tux Tweaks – Now With Threaded Comments

January 25, 2010 by Linerd · Leave a Comment
Filed under: General, news 

I spent a great deal of time this weekend working on updates to my WordPress theme. One of the more noticeable changes is the addition of support for threaded comments. The function has been available in WordPress since version 2.7, but I didn't get around to modifying my theme until now. Hopefully, this will make the comments section a little more useful. Read more

How To Install WordPress on Ubuntu: Part 2

November 26, 2009 by Linerd · 21 Comments
Filed under: HowTo, Ubuntu, linux, web development 

In Part 1 of How To Install WordPress on Ubuntu I showed you some of the steps required to get Ubuntu ready for a fresh installation of WordPress to use for web development. In Part 2 I'll go through the steps of installing WordPress itself.

First, you need to download the latest version of WordPress. As of this writing, the latest is version 2.8.6.  Read more

How To Install WordPress on Ubuntu: Part 1

November 24, 2009 by Linerd · 13 Comments
Filed under: HowTo, Ubuntu, linux, web development 

In this first part of How To Install WordPress on Ubuntu, I'm going to show some of the things you need to do to prepare your system for the actual WordPress installation. I'll cover the steps of installing WordPress itself in Part 2.

Install LAMP

LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, php. This is the basic web server setup you need to host a website. Even though you won't be hosting the site out to the internet, you'll need to have LAMP installed and configured to run WordPress on your computer. This tutorial assumes that you already have Ubuntu installed. Then, install LAMP on Ubuntu. Read more

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