Rich's Tongfamily (Richtong.net add-on)

Gallery :: your photos on your website. On geekfishing, we are using Gallery now for photos. Seems like a nice applications. Here’s a note on how to password protect individual albums, so some can be public and others require registration and only certain people are allowed to see it. See the very last post as…

Geek Fishing. Finally got this master site up and running. For those of you who are wondering about the name. It refers to our boating trips on Lake Washington. Instead of fishing for, well fish, we go looking for errant 802.11 wireless signals. It is amazing what you can see on a cruise on the…

More on getting photo gallery to work right: Gallery Right now I’ll stay focused on getting a decent photo gallery thing running. Went through the basic MovableType File Upload stuff. it is OK for a few photos, but it wouldn’t really scale to larger sets. I need something that will take my c:\pictures directory and…

Tong Family gets a slight update Did you notice that lots of the starter junk is gone from the front, And also search moved to the menu pane. Most current blogs have a tighter format than mine, so I’m gradually switching over. Next step is to start using (and learning CSS), so that I can…

Installing MovableType on Windows MovableType Installation. This is a good list of things to do, although at 2 AM, things get a bit blurry. Main things are to get Apache loaded, then ActivePerl, then to hook Perl up with Apache by editing httpd.confg. Instructions for Apache and Perl on Windows: Installing Apache. OK, on the…

boardom :: View topic – b2wap.php hack. Ok, a cool way to get the last set of posts from a b2 blog via a wap interface.

boardom :: View topic – [Request] People Who Are Not Logged In See Nothing. A good description from the author himself on how to get B2 to be private. Good for personal and family photos and news. Lots of different ways to do it. You could: Use .htaccess with apache Use the new filters command.…

Getting a local Apache server to work on XP I’m going to create a development server that mimics what is GeekFishing so here are some notes on how to make it all work similarly. This will also let me install things like the PHP DBG module that require major hacking that an ISP normally doesn’t…

Password protection This has come up several times. So, here’s quick tutorial. HTpassword generator. This is an all in one generator of htpassword which is a file you put in a web server to protect a particular directory. Creating .htpassword. This is how you create a file. Htpassword Line Generator. This is how you create…

PHP Editing and Debugging Freeware I’m tired of using wordpad and sticking in echo and print_r statements in PHP to figure out what is going on, so here is a search for a good debugging environment for PHP. I spent hours tonight trying to get the debugger to work. Let’s just say the freeware stuff…