Installing WordPress on Localhost
It is an interesting week from my perspective both as a student and as a teacher.
As a student I’m completing my Java 2 Micro Edition multiplayer game using the high level interface (so its nothing major to look at) and datagrams for communication plus a tome of documentation about design justification, how the code works and the ever inspiring testing regime. Seriously, if you develop multiplayer applications in mobile emulators for a living you are my true god and inspiration of patience! If you don’t give it a try - seriously its slow. Also I have to produce a 6000 word project report for my corporate internship which accounts for 35% of my academic mark for the internship (so its rather important) and provide my sponsor organisation with their polished research report at a small presentation next week. My research was into the cost benefit to government of providing subsidised jobs for the long term unemployed and disadvantaged job seekers.
As a teacher I’m installing WordPress on Localhost for my students and they make the step into more sophisticated development using templates. To me this will be an exciting move as they’ve spent the last two weeks discussing usability and user centred design, accessibility in the context of the large public service website, and touching on the basic methodologies of research and documentation when scoping the problem space (competition sites, internal policies, etc) while working on mockups for a large information driven site with a broad user base.
The simplest version of how to install WordPress on your local machine for our purposes has to be the short and sharp version at the WordPress Blog Customisation site (not sure if its affiliated with the software or a private support site). While it apparently has some Extensible Markup Language (XML) issues this version is simple and fast to achieve - seeing as I’m the Santa doing all that geekery while the class sleeps in the morning - and it offers the ability to effectively edit their templates without having to traverse the whole File Transfer Protocol (FTP) scene during development.
So that’s why I’ve been a bit quieter this week. My brain actually feels like its tingling inside my head from over activation or something and I’m looking forward to a beer in about 10 days just to enjoy a weekend for a change with the family.
