In my Apache post, I mentioned that it was a nasty process enabling php in per-user directories. Well, I did another google search today, and it turns out I was wrong — it’s actually very easy! All you have to do is open the /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php5.conf file and comment out this bit of code: <IfModule mod_userdir.c> [...]

When learning web development, it isn’t long before you need something more than pointing your browser at a local file. You want to learn PHP, AJAX, or WordPress … and that means a web server. Fortunately, it’s not too hard to get one installed on your local machine. In this post, I’m going to show [...]

Last year, I worked a great job writing little scripts. My office machine (an ancient thing running Windows 2000) had a gvim installation with an incredibly cool feature I had never seen anywhere else: it showed you how many lines you had highlighted in visual mode. At the time, I, alas, completely took it for [...]

Hi, I’m Joyce. Welcome to my techblog, where I’ll be sharing my adventures as a young programmer, web-designer, and linux sys-admin (among other things). A little bit about me: I’m 22 years old, and I started out as a completely normal person: a point-and-click Windows user. Then I met my now-husband, a crazy functional-language-enthusiast hacker [...]