Back in WordPress and PHP land a bit. OpenGL is fun, but I want to make this hosting/blog cleaner and something I can point people at without running then through messiness at the landing page.

I think the Jetpack plugin has resolved my immediate image display issues over on my personal blog. I still want to build more comfort level with PHP for a number or reasons and with WordPress to keep things going in the right direction here.

I’ve bought a few PHP and WordPress kindle books to cover these areas (and update my several years old volumes on my current physical bookshelf). I’ll likely drop XAMPP on my linux machine sometime soon to create a test environment for a number of things.

I preordered O’Reilly’s Apache Cookbook, 3rd Edition and bought the kindle version of the second edition to hold me over (cheap for kindle and meets my current needs). Not as much mod_rewrite stuff in there as I’d prefer, but much of that I can get through google searches.

I picked up WordPress: The Missing Manual yesterday and found it quite helpful in addressing my image gallery and lightbox needs and pointing me in a CMS based direction for dealing with my landing page problem (currently ugly, static and hard to manage). More to read here, but at the moment I have what I need.

The WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook looks further into the future if I find a need to more directly customize WordPress. Currently on the shelf (virtually speaking) as I have other fish to fry.

Programming PHP, 3rd Edition and Modern PHP: New Features and Good Practices should address some of the technical back-end stuff (I have plenty of MySQL coverage and Apache is thin on the ground, but probably adequate.

I have a preorder in for PHP and MySQL Web Development (5th Edition) from the Addison Wesley Developer’s Library. It looks like a good book, but the others will have to do until it ships.

My copies of the OpenGL Superbible: Comprehensive Tutorial and Reference (7th Edition) and OpenGL Shading Language (3rd Edition) have come in and once I deal with immediate issues, I’ll be digging into those and sand-boxing some code in the evenings.

I have the OpenCL Programming Guide 1st Edition sitting on my shelf at home as well. I bought it when I was on the job market and it looked as if CT development might be in the offing. Interesting stuff as an adjunct to the rendering pieces and I don’t expect to regret buying my copy.