Programming

Exploring Mint with Virtualbox on macOS

Beren Erchamion
May 21, 2017

Exploring Mint with Virtualbox on macOS is important because my son and I will be traveling to Benin in West Africa later this year with the codetohope project. We’ll be teaching computer fundamentals and programming basics in a variety of…

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Get WordPress 5.2.x Working on Mac OS

Beren Erchamion
January 29, 2017

Ok – so you got a new MacBook Pro and you need to get WordPress 5.2.x working on Mac OS. There are a surprising number of things do in order to get it right. You’ll need a number of products…

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Wordpress

Host Your Own WordPress Blog – Not so Easy

Beren Erchamion
December 31, 2016

So you decided to host your own WordPress blog and you thought it would be easy. Ha! Not so much. Not only are you the small fry, with major companies crowding you out of the SEO space, but you need…

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Web Programming

Building a New House of Beor Website with Foundation 6

Beren Erchamion
October 14, 2016

Its been somewhat embarrassing for quite some time that our main website www.houseofbeor.net has a less than ideal responsive layout – ok fine its not responsive at all. This impacts our site at Tarn Aeluin too. Building a new House…

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Android Tips and Tricks for Developers

Beren Erchamion
August 1, 2016

Its been quite a while since Tarn Aeluin focused on serious Android development. Now that I’m getting back into it, there are a bunch of Android tips and tricks I’ve forgotten and then new tricks I don’t want to forget.…

8 min read

Working with PHP on OS-X: Tips and Tricks

Beren Erchamion
April 10, 2016

Working with PHP on OS-X requires tips and tricks if you want to maintain your sanity. Tarn Aeluin has a similar post for the world of Java on OS-X. I was recently playing around with Magento 2, an open-source eCommerce…

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