The ‘SQL’ Tag Archive


Tailor made versus coded by bulk

CMS and Blog Platform Icons

Years ago I threw up a phpBB to keep a few hundred people I met at a Scout camp talking. We quickly formed a community and the demands on the site grew so it keep up with the growth I hacked it to bits to add in extra functionality and static pages but it was hard work and I knew a CMS would make the process easier already having the basics a community site would want built in. I did some rigorous testing on 6 different open source website managers back in 2005 and I couldn’t find one that could be easily integrated so I used the most promising and hacked them together and several years down the road it still works. Just....read more »


SSAGO Website, Phase I

When the National SSAGO website moved servers a lot of things were made non-functional, after struggling for weeks to convert the Cutecast flat files into a MySQL database and getting them to work with a modified messageboard I’ve managed to finally get it all working together and online. ...read more »