This announcement was released last Friday on the WordPress.org site by Mark Jaquith. PHP 4 and mySQL 4 will no longer be supported after the 3.1 release of WordPress coming in September 2010.
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As a former educator, you would think that the answer to this question is a resounding yes. However, that isn’t the case.

With computer programming, the degree is not nearly as crucial as the quality of the education received. This can not be emphasized enough.

I recently heard someone in the website marketing department of a college say “I don’t care what they learn once they are here. It’s my job to see that they enroll.”. Wow, can you say “used car salesman?” Needless to say, my jaw hit the table and I’ve been thinking about this comment since that day and decided it was time to voice an opinion on the matter.

When it comes to computer programming or networking, the mantra should always be “Quality over Quantity”. By this statement I mean that I would rather have 1 “can do” programmer than 10 “theory trained” scholars.

The ability to apply one’s knowledge to their profession is by far the most important factor in making a competent software developer. In order to apply knowledge, it is first and foremost important to fully understand the technology. The computer can’t read your diploma!

Trent found this free download while looking for new free software downloads he felt were worth mentioning on the free software blog.

I think it’s probably the handiest little tool I’ve had in a long time. It’s a color finder. Basically, you open the application (very, very small) and then drag over the color you want to find the values for. It gives you the hexadecimal and rgb values of the color. It also has a little past icon so you don’t have to go back and forth getting the color values.

Why can’t I get wp_home() and wp_front_page() to work in Wordpress?

A lot of coders pull their hair out over these two wordpress functions.

The answer is that these two functions will only query one time per page build. If it’s been used elsewhere to determine the current page, it has to be reset with the wp_reset_query() function first.

One of the most commonly asked questions regarding wordpress websites is how do I show a page name instead of the page id?

The simplest way without a lot of explanation is to follow these steps.

Open …

There are several ways to customize which pages are listed in a directory. The simplest way to do this is by using either ‘include’ or ‘exclude’ but these are far from flexible if your content …

Event Calendar/Scheduler (by DHTMLX LTD) is a plugin that allows you to add a calendar to WordPress. Using a simple point-and-click interface

Contact Form 7  
(by Takayuki Miyoshi) is plugin that allows you to easily create contact forms for your site.  It allows you to either manually add elements to the form, or use an easy to …

We’ve all heard the saying “Jack of all trades; Master of none”.  After years in this business, I have a hard time believing that there are those of us out there that are really masters …

This week’s project is spidertie.com. Not a bad site by any means but it definately needed a face lift. A static site prior to the make over with very little to keep the visitor’s attention. According to the stats, 80% left after a view of the home page. The site was moved to a wordpress theme and has increased use of screen real estate and a lot of content above the fold.