PHP is a language absolutely made for websites. PHP code can be inserted into an html page to enable dynamic creation. Many content management systems like Drupal, Joomla, and osCommerce  use PHP together with MySQL to build webpages. (more…)

My birthday is a few weeks away and as gift to myself I bought a new laptop. My old dinosaur Compaq Presario is nearing extinction. I’ve had it for almost a decade and bought it for $2400 new. I have since done about $1000 in upgrades and repairs on it and it is starting to show signs of needing more. I looked into the cost of parts I’d need to get it back to 100% and it would cost me about $400+. As old as it is it is slow, lacks capacity, and can’t be upgraded beyond it’s current 2GB of RAM. With new laptops running at around $500 and being 3 times the speed and capacity of my current laptop, the decision was simple: buy a new one! (more…)