http://www.internet-computer-helper-mi.com A Technical Blog About Using Computers with the Internet Sat, 08 Dec 2007 06:10:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Whether you are developing an application with PHP, Java, or Ruby, applications always take time to develop.  I think many customers of custom programming underestimate the time required to build, test, and deploy new applications.  They have no concept of how much time it takes to put a program together.  ... http://www.internet-computer-helper-mi.com/php-and-time-estimates-2007-12-08 I don't know who to complain about this, but I haven't been able to use Yum to do updates because tons of the files had the wrong damn signatures on them, and nobody does #@A%$A to fix it!   In my opinion, if they're so damn concerned about security, then they would ... http://www.internet-computer-helper-mi.com/yum-just-sucks-for-fedora-core-3-2006-12-17 In putting this game together, I am finding that there is alot more to do than just writing all of the code. Planning is of the essence.  I think that my game will be good since I am building upon an already established foundation of game play that is very ... http://www.internet-computer-helper-mi.com/game-creation-with-php-planning-and-deisgn-of-an-mmrpg-2006-12-15 In selecting a database for our game, I wanted to make sure I choose something that was robust enough to handle the job.  I decided to go with MySQL 5.x, but think I may regret it due to overhead problems.  I know there are things that can be done to ... http://www.internet-computer-helper-mi.com/game-creation-with-php-our-database-2006-11-30 I just want to apologize to the Blogosphere, or whatever you call yourselves, for this additional post.  I am having technical difficulties with Wordpress which have cost me hours of time.  Anyway, here's what I was trying to say earlier: Lets get down to the substance:  I have for you some ... http://www.internet-computer-helper-mi.com/amazon-api-affiliate-script-using-php-version-2-of-a-bad-posting-2006-11-25 Okay, I use PHPMyAdmin for all of my MySQL administration.   I've learned that there may be better tools available, but I have been hooked on using PHPMyAdmin.  I have a big gripe with it though - if you want to import an sql script for execution, you must browse for ... http://www.internet-computer-helper-mi.com/import-mysql-script-file-with-php-2006-11-23 If there is one thing I have been wanting to do, but somehow never had the time, was to create a turn based game written in PHP.  A couple years ago, I actually came close to having a good framework created, which allowed the player to move around a generated ... http://www.internet-computer-helper-mi.com/game-creation-with-php-2006-11-23 If you're like me, which I hope you're not, you have all of your sites hosted on a server that you're co-locating, and have hundreds of accounts setup with abbreviations that you have to look up in an excel file, to keep everything straight.  Well, my system bit me, as ... http://www.internet-computer-helper-mi.com/setup-of-this-site-2006-11-23