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Blogger FAQ blog. Yuck, the official Blogger FAQ doesn’t help with all the tags that you need. Here is a more complete list. The one I’m looking for is $BlogArchiveFileName which you can use to put your archive list on the front page.

b2 > ReadMeYou can now post news from an email client! This is a great reason to use b2 or blogger pro or radioland. So, it looks like either I pay for the latter, or find a hoster with the former… But first you’ll have to edit b2config.php, filling the…

wapblogger – a WAP interface to Blogger, LiveJournal and other smart weblog-style tools. Wow, you can from a WAP phone send something to a blog. How cool. You need to hit the WAP URL wap.ubique.ch/wapblogger to get there from any wap phone. Can’t wait to try it. This plus audio…

b2 >b2 installation. Arrrgggh. Hours later and the problem is that the installation instructions for B2 are incomplete. You have to go into the mysql administrator and create a database called b2 and then it all works. Doesn’t mention this in the installation and you only get a cryptic “undefined…

PHP Coder. OK, the last step is to get an IDE for PHP. Wow, amazing what is free. Just downloaded this tool which has syntax checker, etc. Now, I can single step and figure out what is going on.

b2 on a Windows server is not supported. Wow, still couldn’t get B2 to run, I had forgotten what configuration hell was with all the various INI files. Here are the quick notes from that author on hacking at c:\windows\php.ini… Too numerous are the threads about problems installing b2 on…

WinZip? Home Page. so of course DDG is actually in Unix Tar compressed format, so you have to get winzip in order to read it since Windows XP doesn’t know this. Arrghh. How many layers down do I have to go. Also, with dbg, he saves it with the file…

DBG: Php Debugger. OK, I’ve gotten Mysql, PHP4 and B2 installed, but the b2install.php script is generating an error, so off to find a good debugging tool. Google led me to this for a step by step debugger. Wow, a single integrated suite would sure be great. And of course,…

Configuring PHP 3 and 4, MySQL 3.23, PHPMyAdmin, gd, Zend Optimizer for IIS 5.0 under Windows 2000. OK, to get to Cafe/B2, a great blogger according the blog Compendium, I had to learn how to install MySQL, a terrific free SQL database and also PHP4. Wow, this was pretty tricky…

802.11 Wireless Home Network Recommendations. The new 802.11a at 72Mbps is coming out. Quite a few folks have been asking me about it. Right now for most homes I’d recommend that you get a low cost 802.11b solution for right now. My buddy Tom Hatsukami was asking and wanted to…