WAMP Services not booting

Just came across an issue where I started WAMP, but the icon went orange instead of green.  Hovering over the WAMP icon in the System Tray, I saw a message like this: local server – 1 of 2 services running Turns out that I had Skype running and it looks like the...

WAMP and https

Why is this important? It looks like the BluePrint-Q preview is broken on the WordPress themes directory: https://wordpress.org/themes/blueprintq-draft/ Turns out that some assets are expecting to be loaded through http, but the theme directory is using https, which...

My current development setup

I use a number of programs for development.  They can be intertwined, have nuances, etc.  I offer some thoughts on each, but also serves as a reminder on my development setup.   NetBeans This is my IDE for web development.  I use it because it compiles LESS,...

Permalinks not appearing

I came into a problem on one of my machines where the WordPress permalinks were not working.  Typically, I go to the WP backend and click Settings >> Permalinks, then resave what I have there so that WP updates the .htaccess file.  However, that did not do the...

Benchmarks on WAMP 2.5

WAMPServer is the tool that I use to develop websites locally.  It is made up of three distinct technologies – Apache, MySQL, and PHP. I recently upgraded from WAMP 2.4 (Apache 2.4.4, MySQL 5.6.12, PHP 5.4.12) to WAMP 2.5 (Apache 2.4.9, MySQL 5.6.17, PHP...