Leon Stafford

I will help explain how to install the free MAMP web server on your Mac.
I received an email from a lady who stumbled upon this blog and was very interested to learn that it is possible to use WordPress on MobileMe hosting. I skimmed over the ways to do this in previous posts and [...]

I spent the best part of the morning trying to figure out why a simple Ajax call with MooTools wouldn’t work correctly.
I was either getting no response and various script errors caught in FireBug, or jumping straight to the target URL, no Ajax happening.
I would have wasted more time trying to fix bugs in this [...]

This is a video capture of the CSS Animations which are now supported in WebKit’s latest nightly build.
These are already supported on the iPhone, but will probably be making their way to Safari soon and then Firefox.
It reminds me of DHTML… which is not a good thing really!

I used my first PHP framework today, CodeIgniter, and I secretly loved it.
I felt the need to keep my delight under wraps as if I has told my boss how much easier creating dynamic web systems is now going to be, they might not appreciate me as much!
Up until now, I always mistakingly thought [...]

I have started working on my wp-static-posts plug-in for WordPress.
For those who have been following my work on portable WordPress development and “enabling” PHP and WordPress support on Apple’s MobileMe service, this may be of interest to you.
As you may have inferred from previous posts, I’ve been having to manually scrape my WordPress files into [...]

Original boring title: A more secure WordPress
My method of using WordPress as a locally-run content managment system is, in my opinion, more secure.
Previously, I wrote about how I am running portable web development server on my SD card, for both Mac and PC. I also expanded upon this method to enable WordPress content to be uploaded [...]

WTF? Has Google’s algorithm finally developed it’s own AI which in turn is cannibalising other pieces of the Google body?
This is a real screenshot I just took now. It’s obviously some error on Google’s side as it is the same in Safari and Firefox and probably IE too.
What is the search engine world coming to?
Yahoo [...]

This is how I fixed a troublesome heatsink fan clip on a computer I was given recently.
I picked up this computer told that is is probably working. The specs were Celeron 2.4 in a small desktop case with AGP micro-ATX motherboard. This is more than enough speed for most things I do, so I decided [...]

I used blowfish encryption to password protect and encrypt html files on my MobileMe site.
The usual .htaccess and .htpasswd combination didn’t work with my MobileMe hosting, so I Googled for an alternative.
WARNING: This method uses javascript to decrypt blowfish’d html content which is good enough for hiding a portfolio from Google’s indexing spiders and probably [...]

I have added a list of recent posts on the index page here.
Just as in the other template files, I modifed the plug-in’s php file to strip the absolute path’s leading info from the permalink. This ensures it works on my MobileMe tuned version of WordPress
This is the plug-in I used.

Here’s a pic of my dual Win/Mac portable web servers as seen from inside Leopard.
I’m using Xampp for the Windows world at work and MAMP for at home on a real computer
MAMP sits comfortably in a 500MB disk image which I just mount before using.
Database and htdocs are still being synced manually which [...]

Oops! After posting my guide on running WordPress on Apple’s MobileMe hosting, I got a bunch of emails pointing out that individual post links weren’t working.
Well, half of them were, but here’s what happened and how I fixed it:
I have a domain www.leonstafford.com pointed to my MobileMe webspace at http://web.me.com/leon.stafford/wp/ . Using the methods detailed [...]

Previously, I wrote about getting WordPress working on MobileMe. Thanks for all who wished me luck, it must have worked!
Along with luck, here are the other ingredients I used to get my WordPress blog published on MobileMe.
I first setup Mac and Windows portable web server environments to run my WordPress install locally. You could also [...]

As a companion to running WordPress on MobileMe hosting, I wanted a way to carry my whole WordPress environment with me on portable media (in my case, a spare SDHC 8GB SD card).
This would involve a portable web server environment which doesn’t need any installation on the host to function. Oh, and to make it [...]