I f**king hate flash video! Ahhhh!
Rant over thank you for listening.
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Well I’m happy to report that yet another successful Textpattern site has been launched.
My buddy Mark Berry has finished his novel and he needed a website to promote and sell his book. Pushing Leaves Towars the Sun has been launched and like I did with Focal Point Wellness Center, a Textpattern backend with a heavily modified template was all that was needed to get he job done. Once Mark learned ow to edit and create ‘articles’ or I as like to say manage the content, I was left to making sure everything else was working.
So if your looking for something to read, the 1st three chapters are available online, so give it a shot. Oh yeah, he’s looking for a publisher too.
I just haven’t been in the mood to write as of late. I got an email from a reader asking when I’m going to start writing again, so I figured I might as well address it online. I did have urges to post a few times. Especially when Apple announced the Intel thing (WOW) then a bit later introduced a multi-button mouse! And of course their most recent got-to-get-one toy: the iPod nano.
New projects include learningRuby on Rails for web development (I think my PHP days are close to over now). And using Textpattern (which finally was released out of beta at version 4.0 no-less) for times when you don’t need to re-invent the CMS wheel.
The next big push at work is a total rewrite of the Samson website. Hopefully we can get it done with rails.
I think I’m done with mountain biking, I want to start riding on the road. That would involve a significant expenditure on a road bike, so I’ll probably put that off ‘till the spring.
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The development workflow
If I was developing a site locally on my Mac for a site called http://www.cooldomain.com/ I’d develop it under the domain dev.cooldomain.com that I’m hosting locally on my OS X powered Mac. This way I know, whenever I type dev. before the domain name it’s the local copy and when I have www. before the domain name it’s the live site.
Setting up vhosts
First I create a folder in my home directory called webserver this is where I keep all of my locally hosted sites. For a site called www.cooldomain.com I create a folder within the webserver folder called cooldomain. I then create 2 folders inside that folder first logs (for log files) and then public_html. Your site will be served from the public_html folder.
Continue reading ‘My Approach to Apache Virtual Hosts in OS X’
So I’m using an ‘extra’ powerbook while the iBook gets a new logic board this week. What’s a web developer to do with a new (temporary use) machine? Get Apache, PHP & MySQL running of course. Rather than muck around with the OS and .conf files I figured I’d try out some of the complete web server packages that have come out in the last nine months. First up was MAMP, I liked the idea, a simple drag-and-drop install, no mucking around in /usr, /var/ or /etc and the option of using PHP4 or PHP5 was a bonus. Changing the MySQL password turned out to be easy, but killed the web based admin tools built into it. No prob, I can work around that. But then, the showstopper, no mod rewrite! So I went and downloaded another package, WebServerX Kit this is a complete Apache2/PHP5/MySQL/phpMyadmin install. It places its files in /usr/local and comes with a pref pane to start and stop the servers. Wouldn’t ya know it, same deal no mod rewrite. So what did I end up doing? I grabbed the MySQL package from Server Logistics (which btw comes with a nice pref pane) and used Apple’s built-in Apache/php (you need to edit the httpd.conf file to get php working) which comes with mod rewrite pre-installed and all is well again in web dev land. Yes, I will soon post details of how I set up virtual hosting on OS X.
My upgrade for Macromedia Studio MX arrived today. The nice part of the upgrade is I went from Dreamweaver Studio (Dreamweaver and Fireworks 4 - static website tools) to Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash and Freehand MX, with dynamic (a la Ultradev) functionality thrown in to boot. Dreamweaver even has PHP/MySQL connectivity!
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