CFUnited 2010 here I come!

By Josh Highland in coldfusion, iPhone app dev

I will be speaking at this years CFUnited conference in Lansdowne Virgina, at the Lansdowne Resort

CFUnited is an annual conference based around the Coldfusion, Flex, and AIR languages and platforms.

This year I will be co-presenting with Luis Majano on “ColdFusion Powered iPhone Applications”

The session will cover how to develop and power iPhone applications via ColdFusion REST Services. I will cover all the development basics, intricacies, best practices, etc of iPhone development. The focus will be on how to make an iPhone application connect and consume ColdBox REST services.

The ColdFusion portion of the session will be led by Luis Majano, Creator of the Coldbox Framework.

I’m really looking forward to this great experience. I will be posting the slides and sample code here, after the presentation.

WordPress asking for FTP username/password?

By Josh Highland in tutorials, wordpress

Are you annoyed with your wordpress install asking you for your FTP cradentials everytime you try to upgrade a plugin? I know I was.  Thankfully, there’s a simple solution which will save the FTP login (username/password/server) so WordPress stops asking you for them.  Here’s how you do it.

  1. Locate your WordPress root diectory and find the “wp-config.php” file.
  2. Edit the file and insert this somewhere in the middle as it’s own block, we normally put it after the mysql username/password block.
define("FTP_HOST", "localhost");
define("FTP_USER", "yourftpusername");
define("FTP_PASS", "yourftppassword");

Once you’ve made that edit, save the file and voila! No more punching in your ftp username and password all the time.