Jess Coburn's Personal Blog

Archive for August, 2006

For this post series (my first post series) I want to highlight some of the wordpress plugins and extensions I’m using.  As noted I’m running wordpress on MySQL & PHP on a windows 2003 server running IIS6 hosted at AppliedI.net. Oh and since acronyms like WIMP (WTF? WIMP?!?!) are hot these days I have officially coined my own for this series: WOW! for Wordpress on Windows! WOW! (I wanted to use HOT DAMN! But just couldn’t come up with the right set of words )

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So I learned a new acronym the other day, Seems the Linux guys have LAMP: Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP. It’s an extremely popular acronym and everyone knows exactly what you’re talking about the moment you mention it (well in geek circles anyway). The Windows guys that run PHP & MySQL are WIMP.  Well I suppose I should be happy we have our own acronym but it bothers me somewhat. You see on Windows we can run MySQL & PHP, no problem. I also won’t argue that MySQL runs better on Linux because it does. But PHP runs pretty damn good on Windows, in fact it’s generally balls on accurate on windows with very little extra configuration or work needing be done. In fact, this very blog runs on WIMP and isn’t missing any features or functions that any other wordpress blog has. They call that a well engineered platform (PHP) and a damn good system administration (Windows MySQL hosting).

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This is a test post from within Windows Live Editor. Windows Live Editor is Microsoft’s new swiss army knife of blog editors. It’s actually really impressive. It supports several different types of blogs including Community Server and Wordpress, as well as the popular blogging services. Really won’t go into that because there’s plenty of posts on the internet already related to this.

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One common request is how do I set it up so that my user's can automatically be logged into their smartermail webmail without having to manually enter their login id and password.  Well the solution is finally here:

The URL to use is:  http://mail.yourdomain.com/login.aspx?

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Now that I'm a firefox user, I figured it would be worthwhile to post a list of useful firefox links and plugins so here they are:

1. The firefox cheat sheet: http://lesliefranke.com/2006/06/22/mozilla-firefox-cheat-sheet-update/
2. SearchStatus – provides a PageRank & Alexa Rank notice for all sites at the bottom of your browser. May not be all that fancy or useful you'd think but it's pretty nice to see the pagerank for various websites while you['re browsing them. 
3. TabMixPlus – This is really handy. It tracks your tabs and should your browser crash, your computer reboot, etc, it will restore your tabs for you to how they were.