Archive for July, 2006

Password Issues with PHP4 and MySQL

July 20th, 2006 – 1:00 pm
Tagged as: Coding

I have struck this a couple of times now so thought I’d put a reference here, if not for anyone else then at least for me!
Recent versions of MySQL 4 use passwords that are not compatible with PHP4. If you have received an error like this, you’ll know what I’m talking about…
Client does not support […]

How to Write a Blog Post that Gets Lots of Links

July 20th, 2006 – 11:23 am
Tagged as: Marketing

White something like this!
But seriously, the tips on headline writing in this article are red hot. Like any good advice, it makes perfect sense after you have read it. It just takes someone to actually point it out!
Now I just need to come up with a good subject for a “How To” article…

A New Basecamp Clone

July 14th, 2006 – 9:43 am

Just stumbled across this courtesy of one of Sitepoint’s newsletters - a Basecamp clone called activeCollab is being developed.
Still in alpha, but at least it’s open source and downloadable. For many, that’s a far more attractive proposition than paying for Basecamp on a monthly basis.
And if it’s anything like Basecamp it’s really simple to use.
Might […]