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In the course of developing this blog, I run into a lot of challenges. I’m pretty picky, so that often means figuring out how to produce certain results. Henceforth, lots of googling, lots of potential solutions, and testing and tweaking

For many, many years, I had an awful habit of jumping from one life crisis to the next. Got charged way more for a doctor’s visit than I expected? CRISIS! Got into an argument with a relative? CRISIS! Almost got

I put together a gamified learning website for my kids to help them practice math and English concepts. As a bonus way to earn currency on the site, I added a feature that let them visit a ‘treasure parlor’ where

I’ve had scenarios pop up multiple times where I wanted to 1) custom code titles for my webpages based on the name of the webpage 2) be able to change them from one page instead of having to comb through

For fun, I decided to write a simple PHP script that would give you your age accurately (in years) regardless of what point in the current year you’re at. You provide the digits of your birthday (month, day, and year)

Updated: May 7, 2017 Edited Chickager code to make the month estimation more accurate. It no longer rounds up to a whole digit, making the age in months bigger than what it should be (i.e. It would now would say

If you followed my tutorial on making a MySQL database in Cpanel, you may have noticed at the end of that tutorial that I talked about populating your database with tables and data. Oftentimes, when you’re installing a script, the

If you run across a PHP/MySQL-driven script that you want to install, you’ll need to know how to set up a MySQL database. In this tutorial, I take you step by step through the process. Please note that this tutorial

I wanted to implement a simple copyright message in the footer of this site, but the theme I’m using doesn’t allow that (free version of the theme lacks the ability to edit the text.) So, while that’s a bummer, I figured