Installing PEAR on Windows 8

PEAR is the PHP Extension and Application Repository.  It’s basically an add-on to PHP that has a bunch of frameworks that are available.  You can read more about it at the official site. Getting PEAR onto my system was not obvious.  I came across two articles...

Speeding up your website

The amount of time it takes to load a webpage can impact a couple of important areas: Visitors will sometimes become impatient and leave a site before it even loads. Google can rank your page higher if the load time is considerably minimial. So, you do not want a poor...

Help! My WordPress is corrupted?!

If you ever find yourself in a situation where your website appears hacked, corrupt, or odd – do not despair!  Here are some ideas that you could try to repair, troubleshoot, etc.  Good luck! Repair Database WordPress offers a repair utility, but it is typically...

Installing Perforce

I have used three revision control systems during my career: SourceSafe, CVS, and Perforce To help version personal efforts and make for nicer backups, effectiveness, I recently installed Perforce with Western Digital’s Live Book Duo.  It was a significant...