Well I’ve been missing in action on this blog as I had been getting more involved in web development and design than Macintosh technology. However, I just upgraded my computer at both work and home and now I am running Leopard. I like it, as I do like the intel machines, too.
First things first for [...]
Well, I implemented my bradrice.com front page to a drupal driven site. Please check it out. Drupal seems to live perfectly fine with any other pages you are serving or software living in the root folder. I decided for sanity sake to install it in a drupal folder and redirect to it. That way I [...]
I just updated my LAMP (Apache, MySql and PHP). I found that PHP installation can become problematic with MySql 5. Apparently the mac binary doesn’t include shared libraries. PHP fails when you build it against mysql. So I googled and found this excellent resource for helping you step through the installations. Start with Mysql and [...]
Recently I wrote about getting Tomcat running in Mac OS X. You can easily start it up manually anytime you want by running the startup script in /Library/Tomcat/bin after you have it installed. But if you want it or any other daemon to run at startup you can use launchd if you are running Tiger. [...]
I’ve recently made the foray into AJAX. I purchased the Apress book “Foundations of AJAX.” When I went to download the source code that went with the book it required me to have tomcat running to view it using a java servlett. I decided to install Tomcat. It was simple, but it wasn’t simple [...]
I’ve revised a previous tip here with regard to setting up your mac to server virtual hosts to use your mac for development of sites. I find this to be a little easier than using 127.0.0.1 as your virtual host. Instead find the virtual host portion (usually at the bottom) of your httpd.conf file which [...]
Since I upgraded to WordPress 1.5, being a web designer, I had to give themes a try. Kubrick is a beautiful interface, but I desired to build my own interface. I have called this one soothe, since it is aqua inspired.
It took me a little while to figure out what files controlled what behaviour. It [...]
