Archive for January, 2007

LAMP or MAMP? on mac

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

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 […]

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Using Perl references for developing

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

I found a good way to make use of a scalar reference in perl. For development when you are using a dev and live server, you can change some settings using a ref.
Here’s what I did recently. In this case I needed two different mount scripts, one for a dev server and one for a […]

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