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My Beagle Board Black

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I got my BBB, metal box and a USB Wi-Fi adapter today. I have several ideas and projects that are on my mind. Now that I have the hardware in hand time to write some code.

Apache Server Side Includes (SSI)

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When I first started using Apache way back in the previous century I used Apache Server Side Includes (SSI) .  Today I decided to fire up this old technology on my development server. I am reading a HTML  5 Forms book and so I am creating a lot of pages using the Linux VI editor.  Coding web pages in a terminal allows me to learn and examine code examples by typing them.  One thing that I did not want to do is develop a bunch of pages that did not have any navigation.  I chose to utilize SSI to load a simple menu file onto my example form pages. My simple main page.  Menu SSI is at the top.  SSI server time is at the bottom. SSI code to include local time on my page. Form from Chapter 1 with the SSI menu. Code view showing the SSI include for the menu file. Header of the form in Chapter 3 with new CSS3 features.  SSI menu is at the top.

My Browser HTML 5 Test

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I am going through a training exercise to brush up on my form development.  I am reading a book on Safari Online Books titled Mastering HTML 5 Forms . I decided to do my own browser check to see which one would display my first form correctly. Check your browser here on my form . First Firefox version 33. It does not display the date field calendar selector. Next is IE version 11.0.96. It does not display the date field calendar selector. FChrome version  38.0.2125.104 . It does display the date field calendar selector.

Great SQL Tool

I really got excited this morning when I was researching a solution to a database problem.  I always find myself pouring over other peoples questions on sites like Stack Overflow until I find a solution or a clue to my error or problem.  today I was looking at a solution and discovered that the correct answer was posted using a cool online SQL site, http://sqlfiddle.com/ I know I am not always up to date on stuff, but this site is really great.  It will allow you to build a schema and test your ideas without doing any real damage to a database system.  I have always set up a test database for this purpose, but being able to quickly write a SQL statement and se what idt does all on one web page is really cool.  I can test out ideas quickly and then use the SQL code on the production database.

The Boogie Man of Insomnia Mania

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 I had a lot of fun drawing this.  Drawing in multiple layers is what I like to do with my art.  I also rarely have any sharp corners in my drawings. Most of the shapes are rounded and smooth. Here is the finished drawing.  You can buy a print of this drawing here .

PHP Parse error in wp-config file

It was a hard start for this WP Blog site .  I had to use my error log to figure out a syntax error in the wp-config.php file.  I went to the Sample file /** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */ define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8'); /** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */ define('DB_COLLATE', ''); /**#@+ * Authentication Unique Keys and Salts. My file after correction /**#@+ /** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */ define('DB_COLLATE', ''); /** Authentication Unique Keys and Salts. * * Change these to different unique phrases! * You can generate these using the {@link https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/ WordPress.org secret-key service} * You can change these at any point in time to invalidate all existing cookies. This will force all users to have to log in again. * * @since 2.6.0 */ My error was made when pasting in the Keys and Salts.  Here is the p