Erik A. Hanson's Weblog

I wanted to create/edit a WordPress theme on my local computer, so I had to install WordPress. It wasn’t quite as straightforward as I would have hoped. Here are some instructions: MySQL I had already downloaded and installed MySQL, so I didn’t have to do anything. If I remember, installing MySQL was straightforward. Apache Apache [...]

A while ago, I posted some Javascript code that produces a nice relative date string (e.g., “4 days ago” or “18 minutes ago”) given two dates. I looked at the code again and noticed that it was pretty long and needlessly required Prototype. So I cleaned it up a bit: /** * Simple relative date. [...]