What this site wants to be ... part 2

Last week I linked you to a couple of local news/participatory journalism sites, either of which could serve as a great model for something we could do in Flower Mound.

Along the same lines, here's my new favorite site: The Paramus Post, covering Paramus, NJ. Great content, clean design, and it looks totally professional, though I'm sure most of the writing is done by neighbors like you and me. Both the Post and the previously-mentioned iBrattleboro.com are built on a software portal program called Geeklog. Geeklog runs on a Unix platform, and it involves learning something about php and mySQL, a programming language and a database engine, neither of which I knew anything about a few days ago. I'm trying to learn though. Any advice?