Hello Everyone,

I was sitting back today as I setup my new blog trying to think about what to write about first. Thought about recommending some sites that have links to open source projects. Not real exciting. I’ll probably talk about many of them listed in the future so that would kinda defeat the purpose of the blog also. Then I realized the perfect opening post… must talk about Word Press!

Word Press is the blogging software application that this blog is installed on. It was recommended by a friend a few weeks ago and he said it was “very easy to setup”. He wasn’t joking. It honestly took about 5 minutes to setup! It’s written in PHP and the instructions are very easy to set it up. You basically need a database (MySQL recommended) and a webserver that can host PHP applications. Basically it’s very easy to setup 1 or multiple blogs off the same system/database. I won’t explain too much more about, but feel free to visit their site: http://www.wordpress.com/ a must read for anyone interested in setting up a blog and they actually will even host your own domain if you aren’t capable of setting one up on your own. For people interested in reading more of the technical jargon or downloading the application you’ll want to visit the following link: http://www.wordpress.org Much information on how to install, plugins, support, examples, etc.

Word Press makes blogging easy and exciting. It’s open source, so you can use it for free with no obligations. Thank you Word Press, and we’ll see you in the blogging world!

–Adrian