If you have a problem with phpMyAdmin where you just get a blank page or unable to connect to MySQL in Windows machine you will be glad to know that I have a solution that will save you a headache and time.

How to solve phpMyAdmin blank page and Mysql not connect to localhost issue?

When installing a CMS you usually present with a choice to use MySQL persistent connection and the question is should you use persistent or not!

The reason for using persistent connections is reducing the number of connects which are rather expensive but...

Ways to pick a CMS!

When you browse the forum at opensourceCMS you might come across this type of question many times:

Before Drupal 7, if you want to create a block for your Drupal site you either have to create a module or a variable to show your block and it is not fun!

But in Drupal 7, Block is part of the core, just to go ?q=admin/structure/block and create a block.

If you are using the multilingual extension in Drupal you are in for a big headache and time-consuming upgrade time!

What are the real issues?

With the success of upgrading my first Drupal site so I thought maybe I should do upgrade on my other Drupal site.

I was interested in getting Drupal to run with MSSQL rather than MySQL so I set out to see if I might be able to hack the code to support MSSQL whether through PHP MSSQL driver or through Microsoft SQLSRV driver...

For an MVC pattern to work it needs some form of URL processing whether it is via routing or URL rewriting. Most of the MVC framework that I encountered are depend on URL rewriting rules.

This took me several weeks to figure out how to fix this problem!

It starts out when I try to install IIS to my Windows 2003 R2 sp2 server and for some reason IIS just only show htm file but none for asp, aspx or php!