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Happy New Year 2011

January 1st, 2011 · 4 Comments · Blog News, Misc.

This is a just a quick post to wish all the readers of the Coding Pad blog a wonderful and prosperous 2011.  Thank you for your continued support and for the great interaction and times on this blog. The second half of 2010 was pretty hectic for me as I relocated across the world to [...]

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Opening .uif files on a Mac

May 30th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Misc., Useful Links and Resources

I recently acquired a used macbook and have been trying to acclimate myself to it. So far so good, but it’s taking some getting used to, especially on the software side of things. I guess I have been spoiled by the seemingly limitless availability of programs for PCs, and especially free/open source programs. I was [...]

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Advocating for the Right CMS, not the Best CMS

December 5th, 2009 · 12 Comments · Misc.

Since I started writing the MODx Beginner series I’ve received a lot of emails from people asking me what my favorite CMS is.  Because I blog extensively about both Drupal and MODx and have my blog running on WordPress, there is an assumption out there that surely I must prefer one to the other.  Is [...]

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Which CMS do I Prefer?

December 4th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Misc.

…it depends.

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How to Set Up Virtual Hosts on your Local Host

November 8th, 2009 · 19 Comments · Misc., PHP, Screencasts

In this screencast I walk you through how to set up virtual hosts on your local development server, specifically Wampserver on Windows. As promised in the screencast I am appending a written version of the process on this post for your reference.

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