Category: Miscellaneous

wxDevCon Coding Camps Feb 6-8, 2017

Our goal at wxPerts is to expand the use of pcSoft products in the US. Part of our plan to accomplish that is providing more training and after the sale support. Along with the annual wxDevcon, we will be offering quarterly Coding Camps. Coding Camp are 3 day hands-on, classroom style training session. This is … Continue reading wxDevCon Coding Camps Feb 6-8, 2017 →

A Few thoughts about losing my “Uncle John” this week

I lost someone really important to me last week, and it has taken that time for me to be able to write this. By birth, John Stevenson was my Uncle, my mother's brother, but he was always so much more than that. From the beginning he was always that Big Brother, that us first born … Continue reading A Few thoughts about losing my “Uncle John” this week →

Spending a Day with Windows 8 and Visual Studio 11 Betas

Photo by simply.jessi I spent yesterday at .Net developers conference (or behind the walls of the evil empire). The workshop I attended was an introduction to developing business applications for Windows 8 Metro using Visual Studio 11. Read on for my take away from the workshop Let me start by saying I am a 4/5 GL developer and … Continue reading Spending a Day with Windows 8 and Visual Studio 11 Betas →

Improving SEO with Dynamic Content Using Server Side Includes and PHP

In case you have been living under a rock, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a very important topic for any website. Having fresh content is a powerful method of improving SEO, such as adding a list of the most recent 5 blob post to your home page. With a few simple changes to your Apache Config files, you can uses Server Side Includes to run PHP code snippets inside your standard HTML files. Why would I want to do that? My main website (http://www.thenextage.com) is a simple HTML website that I maintain with Dreamweaver. Instead of converting the site to PHP or WebDev, I wanted to keep the site simple and easy to maintain. This article will explain how I am mixing PHP code into standard HTML files