http://www.winstonyw.com The slightly personal blog of Winston who is quite passionate about the Web Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:26:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Lately, I have been reading up on DOCTYPE and (X)HTML as I felt that my knowledge of them was limited. This post is a summary and brain-dump of my readings and is not to be taken as an exhaustive documentation on the subject of DOCTYPE and (X)HTML. Do correct me ... http://www.winstonyw.com/2008/08/28/doctype-xhtml-strict-or-transitional/ Background During the conceptualization stages of Winston{YW}, I was inspired by Antonio and so, I wanted my WordPress blog to have a Delicious Count Button on each post too. Ideally, this Delicious Count Button could be used to bookmark the post in Delicious, and at the same time, display the number ... http://www.winstonyw.com/2008/08/23/create-a-digg-like-delicious-count-button-with-jquery/ After a hiatus of nearly two years, I want to start blogging actively again. This new design is created for that purpose, as a celebration of my return to blogging. I have it made to be just a plain and simple blog design that's absent of many colours or other ... http://www.winstonyw.com/2008/08/11/a-new-simple-design/ In my previous post, I described how to get PHP working with LightTPD on a Windows machine. But that's not the end of the story, since what I really wanted was to get my local WordPress installation working, and the missing piece to the puzzle is to make sure that ... http://www.winstonyw.com/2008/06/04/getting-php-to-work-with-mysql/ This blog is in need of a makeover, and so I am trying to keep the procrastination habit at bay, practice some GTD and get started on creating a new template for it. First of all, I need a local development environment for PHP on Windows, since I am a ... http://www.winstonyw.com/2008/05/28/installing-lighttpd-and-php-on-windows/ For my current project, a small part of it requires that a web form be built that would request for a date range input from the user. On submit, the form would send a select statement, together with the date range input as a condition, to the underlying database, retrieve ... http://www.winstonyw.com/2008/04/09/allowing-intuitive-date-range-input-with-date/ For those who are on Windows, but yet wish to install Ruby Thin Server on your PC, here's a short how-to. Ruby Thin Server requires the following dependencies: Rack EventMachine Unfortunately, the latest version of EventMachine (0.10.0 at the time of this post) is not a Win32 binary release, so it's a hassle trying ... http://www.winstonyw.com/2008/03/23/ruby-thin-server-on-windows/ Lately, I have been very much involved in the developmental aspects of MySQL, and searching by date or timestamp on a very large set of data is by far the most common task that I am required to do. Due to this, I was able to refresh my knowledge on ... http://www.winstonyw.com/2008/03/17/search-by-date-or-timestamp-in-mysql/ Are you having problems upgrading your WordPress to version 2.3.3? After following through the extended steps of upgrading WordPress, I encountered the following error on trying to access /wp-admin/upgrade.php: Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@winstonyw.com and ... http://www.winstonyw.com/2008/03/01/upgrading-wordpress-20x-to-233/ Editing the Sizes of the Split-Windows Suppose you wish to edit the sizes of the split-windows for Gmail and Reader Integrator, this is possible and easy to accomplish. Follow these steps to customize the Gmail or Reader window sizes to your preference: In Firefox, open Tools > Greasemonkey > Manage.. Click on "Gmail ... http://www.winstonyw.com/2006/11/07/tweak-gmail-and-reader-integrator/