Online Project Updates

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Some plugins will test for it and return a result of 'failed'. However, the plugin itself may be the cause. One plugin was giving me error for wp_remote_get() so I started to test if server had curl installed, then I checked the php.ini file for Allow_url_include = on and then checked if wp_remote_get worked in a different plugin. It did. Lesson learned, save yourself time by first checking that the wordpress plugin that is claiming your server doesn't work is actually correct. Or, if you feel like modifying the plugins code to fix it, you could go to file editor and look for the test function and change the URL being used with one that is still live and able to return data.

I had started to learn about CodeIgniter and built a simple dynamic website locally and then was looking for more tutorials to progress my learning when I came across a blog by Shawn McCool saying CodeIgniter is dead and this caught my attention so I read it in full. Well beyond CodeIgniter being based on old PHP version 4 and having a lack of developers pushing it forward I was curious, what is a better alternative? It didn't take long to find out as he was asked already by a commenter and his reply was Laravel that he uses and some others. With my limited knowledge in these matters, I am going to follow the recommendations of experienced developers, of course! So I downloaded the files off GitHub and then looked for tutorials to get started learning how Laravel works. Coincidentally, the first one I stumbled upon was authored by Shawn McCool, and he does a great job breaking it down into layman's terms. Laravel is really cool and easier syntax to learn and write than CodeIgn

 I tried to run the sample "Hello World" app and kept getting error message: "could not get wgl getextensions string arb" and Home screen would not show up. The fix is simple though, just locate your installation location of Android SDK\tools\lib and copy this location (for me the location is C:\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64\sdk\tools\lib) and open Control Panel, System, Advanced Settings, and Environment paths.  Click Add New. For the variable name, use: ANDROID_SWT and for the Path write in your path to tools\lib and click OK twice. Now the Android Virtual Device runs without any errors. That is so long as you have setup the paths to Java JDK, etc. already.  Error came back upon second launch. I have ATI HD 4200 Radeon Mobile video card and downloaded latest driver and installed and the error has gone away.

 I have finished the Programming in C Tutorials of Carl Herold's although the lessons had stopped before the final application was finished so I was left hanging. So I moved on to Bucky Robert's Beginner JavaScript  and finished studying them. I was quite surprised how similar the syntax was to C. I have then completed the MySQL videos available from php academy.org  and the MySQL videos available from The PHP Basics.com . Had struggled to get the code from php academy to work so I searched for a different source to get a more current offering, thinking that the syntax may have changed by updates to MySQL itself which lead me to The PHP Basics, and his lessons were spot on. I applied what I learned from there and corrected the syntax to get it working and finished the rest of the tutorials.  It's been a lot of information to sink in and work with but I am enjoying the know how. Been trying to formulate the best way to move forward with developing the "online proje

 So I had a really great idea for an online service and did some searches to see what other websites are similar to my idea and was stunned that none are out there! This has only bolstered my ambition to make what I envisioned a reality as it is going to make for a cheaper and more affordable alternative for my intended audience and I feel confident that it will be a money maker even as an incomplete website. How ever, I do not have programming skills. My experience has been repairs, upgrades, networks, tweaks to operating systems to speed them up, configuring webservers, html 4 and css, some Joomla!, Prestashop, and Wordpress, etc. but nothing in the programming arena or even javascript or php. So I started this blog and named it "Online Project Updates" so I can write posts on my progress developing my idea into a functional site that has (hopefully) happy members, and to keep track of notes, maybe bits of code, links to useful software and websites that prove helpful durin

To get mcdbus to install on Windows 8 and below (all systems, x86 and x64)  Windows prevents the installation of drivers that are not Digitally Signed as a security measure. Since MagicDisc is freeware and they have not signed the driver, you must turn off driver signature enforcement and restart.  Right click on Command Prompt and choose "Run as Administrator"  Copy and paste or type these lines one at a time, hitting Enter after each line:     bcdedit -set loadoptions DISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS     bcdedit -set TESTSIGNING ON  Restart the computer.  If you have not already downloaded and installed MagicDisc, do so before proceeding from here.  Run Regedit and go to HKLM\LocalMachine\CurrentControlSet\services\ and right click on services folder, choose New -> String and name it mcdbus and click OK.   Download this zip file and extract contents. Open the folder where you extracted the files. Copy the mcdbus.inf file and paste it into these two folder locati