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Archive of entries posted on May 2010

Enhanced comment system for phpLD

If you’re run­ning a phpLD direc­tory script, you prob­a­bly know that its com­ment sys­tem leaves a lot to be desired. You can’t edit com­ments for one. You can only approve or delete com­ments. There is also very lit­tle spam pro­tec­tion. You can require users to reg­is­ter before leav­ing com­ments to min­i­mize spam, but doing this […]

Chickens in The City

My neigh­bor decided to start rais­ing his own chick­ens and built a back­yard chicken farm of sort in the Bronx. Appar­ently, it is legal to raise chick­ens in New York City as long as they’re all hens. No roost­ers allowed. Chick­ens are actu­ally con­sid­ered pets under the Health Code. Who knew?! I think they’re cool but […]

I’ve moved!

This is about five days late, but for those few that fol­low my blog, I apol­o­gize for the domain name change from Gotham Bytes to Noel360. To be hon­est, I like the name, Gotham Bytes. But I changed the name because I didn’t want this blog tied to one place (New York). I’ve always had […]

WordPress as a CMS for small business

I have built and been main­tain­ing a web­site, valleycmc.com, for a pedi­atric prac­tice in Indio, CA. It’s a small site of  about ten pages. I orig­i­nally cre­ated the site in 2006 using only a text edi­tor. I knew it was going to be a small site with sta­tic pages. I of course antic­i­pated that some web pages will […]

Music’s Influence on Society

I wrote this arti­cle in 1995, way before blogs were pop­u­lar, even before Google, and when every site seemed to have a Netscape icon on it. I recently found it buried in my hard drive and thought I’d share. You can tell it is dated but I think the mes­sage of this arti­cle still applies today […]