Category: Blog Server

  • Testing the blog server with pupils

    Having spent almost two and a half years On this project it was a great sense of achievement to finally have some pupils using the blog server. It also, was not without it’s hiccups. Th Blog Server was used by two classes in this school the first a colleague of mine allowed a small group […]

  • Blog Server Demo

    This is a wee video which I shot using one of the mockup servers that I created. But basically you’ll get the idea!   <iframe src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/nQP_jlUD9OE?hd=1″ width=”480″ height=”390″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen=”allowfullscreen”></iframe>   It has taken a long time but the real version went live on our network last week. Now all I need to do is […]

  • Blog Server

    The problems you face when it comes to implementing a project like this are wide and varied. This is a proper computing project when the issues are many and rely on a cool head and a logical approach. That’s easier said than done! As when you come across the challenges your state of mind, fatigue […]

  • Setting up a blog server

    Ok, so here’s how I went about it!  First, I installed a first attempt of the WordPress MU 2.3 on apache on an Windows XP machine.  Execpt, having learned about apache and virtual hosts and installing mysql on a Windows PC I discovered that XP only allows 10 concurrent connections so after a 100 hours […]

  • A blog server is born…

    At least three years ago, everybody seemed to be learning to blog. There were a multitude of people blogging via blogger, wordpress and other platforms and I felt it was my turn to join in too. After looking around, and  given my reluctance to divulge my personal information to the web, I decided that a […]