There are many operating systems out there, and the question is
commonly asked: which one is the best one? Well, the simple answer is:
there is no simple answer. Everyone is different; everyone has their
own ideal operating system. This article is going to be focusing on the
"Big 3": Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. One thing I must say early is that
you can have two, or even 3 or 4 different operating systems running on

PHP and MySQL require a server to be run. On the windows computer in my house, I have a free server called Apache running PHP as well as a MySQL server. Normally, you would need the IP address of that computer in order to access the server it's running, but I have found a site called no-ip.com, which gives you a free domain name, which redirects to your IP address. So, I have created "henrytestbed.no-ip.org", which currently is a pie factory webpage.

Well, after playing with Game Maker a bit on windows machines, I found that it's rather fun to play around with at times. However, there is a problem: there is no version of Game Maker for Linux or Mac, both of which I have on my laptop. So I set out to find an answer. My first instinct was to try to run Game Maker with WINE (Windows Emulator). So, I downloaded Game Maker 7 onto my laptop, onto Ubuntu Linux. I opened the installer with WINE, and it seemed to install all right.

Well, this is my first blog post. I'm going to be very cliche now...

Hello world!

There we go, got that out of my system. I hope to post some of my progress with PHP and MySQL here, and maybe a bit of C++ and Python. Now for a quick explination of all those...