Archive for category Website Development

OSX and Apache .htaccess allow mode rewrite

So today i had to get Apache, PHP and Mysql running again on my macbook after installing a new hardrive. PHP is installed already so thats fine. Mysql a simple download and install. I stick to the 32 bit for now as it not everything plays nicely w/ the 64 bit. Especially not with Python. [...]

Installing Python & mod_python on OS X 10.5 Leopard

Source: http://blog.ultranurd.net/0000/01/28/compiling-django-with-twitter-support-as-a-mac-os-x-universal-binary/#Python Files: MySQL 5.1.30 Python 2.6.1 setuptools 0.6c9-py2.6 MySQL-python 1.2.2 Django 1.0.2-final simplejson 2.0.7 python-twitter 0.5 mod_python 3.3.1 Python While python.org provides a nice OS X Installer package for 2.6.1, it is compiled as a 32-bit “fat” binary, which doesn’t help us address the Universality problem. We’ll use their script for generating a package [...]

Key Value Pair Database: Fast Full Text Searches

Store Data for full text searches in key:value pairs. Tokyo DB http://www.igvita.com/2009/02/13/tokyo-cabinet-beyond-key-value-store/

siFR: CSS, Flash & the fonts you love.

A really slick way to have any font you want on your website. http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/sifr/

Syncronize, Repositories, Backup, Git, SVN

I have come across some really great places to deal with file backups, syncing, and repository building. File Syncing: http://www.samba.org/rsync/ http://www.getdropbox.com http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ Repository: http://git-scm.com/

How To: Setup Virtual Hosts on OS X

http://mark-kirby.co.uk/2008/setting-up-virtual-hosts-on-os-x-leopard/

Copyright your Art, Writing, intellectual Property (IP)

Overview: As a web developer or a website owner its important to know the the laws and processes you can perform, to protect your online work from being copied, plagiarized. Reality Check: It is impossible to prevent it from occurring, but you can take precautions and make life harder for those that would attempt to [...]

CakePHP & Database Migration for Teams

Joes Moss @ http://developwithstyle.com. Has put together this fantastic little script that virtually acts like version control for your cakephp databases. Optimal for teams that need to be synce up: http://github.com/joelmoss/cakephp-db-migrations/tree/master

YSlow – Great Fire fox plugin, for optimizing your page download

This is an awesome to firefox plug for optimizing download speed of your page: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/