by suleski | Dec 15, 2016 | Technical, Troubleshooting
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...
by suleski | Dec 10, 2015 | Technical, Walkthroughs
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...
by suleski | Aug 28, 2015 | Management, Reference, Review, Technical
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,...
by suleski | Mar 11, 2015 | Technical, Troubleshooting
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...
by suleski | Jan 27, 2015 | Reference, Technical
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...
