Archive for August, 2009
Making local development a little bit easier on Mac OS X Leopard
Aug 20th
I’ve configured a local DNS server that makes it a little bit easier to develop locally, because i always work with local domains like e.g. project.local.dev i always had to add them to my host file, and that’s very annoying. I stumbled upon the little app DNS Enabler and it saves me allot of trouble installing a local DNS server, and it saves me allot of time! It costs 15 dollar but worth every penny. Whenever i add something in my addressbar, like blabla.local.dev it automatticly goes to a local folder on /data/www/blabla. This is how i did it:
What makes you a better webdeveloper: problem solving
Aug 19th
With multiple browsers, platforms, etc, problem solving is a must for any web developer.
Your footer that bitches about how your site doesn’t work in IE6 and you don’t care, tells me that you don’t know enough about your profession to make it work in IE6. Don’t whine that your code doesn’t work, figure out a way to make it work. There is more than one way to mark up a page.
No one wants to hire a whiner, they don’t even want to know there was a problem. It’s your job to find it and fix it as if it didn’t even exist. If you can do that, you will surely go far.
By http://noahstokes.com
Installing Apache, PHP (with xdebug) and MySQL on Mac OS X Leopard
Aug 19th
Actually, this is very easy to do, since Apache and PHP are already installed we only have to enable PHP, install MySQL and install xdebug.
Some people like to install other software like MAMP or XAMPP but i like to do it without installing other software other than Mac OS X shipped with, well of course we need to install some things but no all-in-one packages.
HowTo: Installing Subversion and Trac on CentOS 4
Aug 13th
I installed Subversion on a CentOS box with Trac, and although there are many, many howto’s on the web none of them seemed to work for my configuration. This is what i did, and worked for me on CentOS 4.
