Glenn Bennett

WPOpen.com

admin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:43:58 +0000

This is where you’ll find info on my wordpress projects.

Ready for BarCampLA 8?

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:49:55 +0000

BarCampLA 8

It’s coming soon BarCampLA 8. It’s very early days of coordinating this even as evident by their web site, but thing tend to come together pretty fast. The dates have been set for Nov. 14-15th. These are always fun and interesting events.

Widgetifyr.com

admin — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:37:43 +0000

I’m been working on a tool (Widgetifyr.com) to let WordPress users create WordPress Widget Plugin out of a bit of PHP code.

It’s to the point now that I can give a demo of it, which is what I’m going to do tomorrow at the Southern California Bloggers Meetup Group tomorrow night.

WIMP LAMP stack

admin — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:17:18 +0000

Here’s another very confusing term used in computing. Lots of people talk about the LAMP stack. This once stood for:

Linux

Apache (web server)

MySQL

Perl

Originally this was used to let people know that there was an alternative to a proprietary stack to create applications. In particular web applications. Then things started to expand. Most commonly these days the ‘P’ has been replaced with PHP. This happened very quietly since no one could remember what the ‘P’ stood for anyway.

Then people started using some of these tools on proprietary operating systems like Windows (WAMP) and MAC (MAMP). Tools started to be created that could be deployed on Any operating system so they just used an ‘X’ for the operating system (XAMP).

People wanted to use PHP on there windows servers that used IIS so now we have WIMP. What about other web servers like lighttpd(pronounced “lighty”) would that be LLMP? LXMP? XXMP? Also Apache does a lot more that web servers these days so the word Apache is not really synonymous with a web server anymore. ‘M’ works for both MySQL and mSQL, but what about Postgress or SQLite? So should we change it to XXXP.

Of couse now we can do a web application that is completely JavaScript. So is it “XXXJ” or just “XXXX”?

Maybe it’s time for a new description of all of this. Heaven forbid we should communicate in a meaningful way.

Here’s my purposal:

ODWAL (odd wall)

Operating System

Data Persistence

Web Server

Application Language

Now that is as clear as mud.

Electrical Problems

admin — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:12:08 +0000

I took my bike off road a bit while in Big Bear and every since
I’ve been having a few electrical problems. Not to much, but every
once in a while it just goes dead. Most of the time I can wiggle
the wires going into the motor to get it going again.

Two Bike Battery Chargers

admin — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:54:21 +0000

I got two bike battery chargers. I wanted to have one for each
battery so I got fast charger and I use the standard charger that
came with the bike. It works out good because I can plug them in
every day and when I come out to ride the bike it’s all charged
(both batteries) and ready to go.

Bike Battery Charge

admin — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:51:25 +0000

This is what the plug on my charger looks like. I’m thinking that
it’s a standard thing and you wouldn’t have to get it from the bike
company.

The AWS Start-Up Tour

admin — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:07:55 +0000

I had a chance to go the AWS Start-Up Tour. It was a little heavy
on the pro Amazon stuff, but interesting none the less.

Off to Drupal Camp LA 2008

admin — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:56:46 +0000

I’m off to Drupal Camp LA 2008 held from September 13-14th at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Opps this is a wordpress blog. Oh well maybe that will change. I’m signed up for the developers track even though maybe I should go to the beginners track. What no beginner Drupal developers trak?

New Media Expo 2008

admin — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:14:10 +0000

I had a good time out at the New Media Expo. People seemed to understand the idea behind CastFeed. Vegas is a bit to hot of a place for any kind of electronics show since us geeks tend to take along a lot tech toys that don’t to well in 105 heat probably turns a car into a toaster oven. Anyway all things considered it was worth the trip.