Installing Apache 2.0.59 to a Windows-based computer, locally: Part 2

• August 25, 2006
• James Skemp

In Part 1 of this Apache 2.0.59 guide, we setup Apache 2.0.59 on a Windows XP SP2 machine. We also setup Perl and mod_perl, attempting to mimic our Apache 1.3.34 install. This time, we'll be continuing in our quest by installing ColdFusion MX 6.1 and 7.

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Installing Apache 2.0.59 to a Windows-based computer, locally: Part 1

• August 22, 2006
• James Skemp

In a previous article, I described how to install Apache 1.3.34 to an average home computer, running Windows XP. Since then, only Apache 1.3.35 has been released that would allow me to update my guide, even though the current 1.3.x version is 1.3.37. There's also a desire on my part to use Apache 2.0, even though my host has not yet begun using them. For that reason, I'll be walking through a second installation of Apache on a home computer, so that both Apache 1.

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Installing Eclipse 3.2 to a Windows XP SP2 machine

• August 19, 2006
• James Skemp

In this guide, we'll be installing Eclipse 3.2. The environment I'll be using is as follows. HP Pavilion a620n 2.20 Ghz, 960 MB (1 GB) of RAM Windows XP Home, SP2 What is Eclipse? “Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing a vendor-neutral open development platform and application frameworks for building software.” (From the Eclipse.org Web site.) In other words, Eclipse is an open source editor capable of helping you write the necessary code for a number of programming languages.

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If there's one thing that I don't like about WordPress ..

• August 11, 2006
• James Skemp

... it's that updating is such a pain in the behind if you have to work remotely via FTP.

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Four working browsers (at least)

• August 10, 2006
• James Skemp

There's just something about having four different browsers on your computer, to say the least. I do believe I've Lynx installed as well, but it's hardly used these days ... for better or worse.

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Google Videos - How social networking can work

• July 27, 2006
• James Skemp

I was trying to pass some time, and came upon Adventures in Linux - Episode I, on Google Video. While the top 100 is full of material of little lasting value, it's nice to see the 1-2% of content that actually serves a purpose.

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Moving the location of PHP on your hard drive

• July 1, 2006
• James Skemp

In this article, we'll be moving our installation of PHP 4.4.2 from c:\php\ to c:\php4\. We'll be doing this primarily because we may like the ability to run multiple versions of PHP at one time, on our development server. This will pave the way for our future installation of PHP 5.1.4 (or the current version of PHP 5.x). The added benefit is that we'll have an idea of just how many documents are involved in a relatively simple change.

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Build your own Firefox extension

• June 21, 2006
• James Skemp

There's a great little guide over at webmonkey that discusses how to build your own Firefox extension.

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Initial thoughts on a square image canvas for fractals

• June 9, 2006
• James Skemp

I've been a part of a number of boards in my years, but the one that I've probably stayed on with for the longest is the board at Fractovia. In response to an image, I mentioned the canvas which turned into it's own thread (Squares?). Here's my intial reply, which I just had to save:

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Upgrading to Zend Optimizer 3.0.1 on a local Windows-based, Apache, server

• June 8, 2006
• James Skemp

In a previous guide, we installed Zend Optimizer 2.6.2 to a local Windows-based Apache 1.x server, running PHP 4.4.2. This time, we'll be upgrading Zend Optimizer from 2.6.2 to 3.0.1. Downloading and backups First, we'll need to download a copy from http://www.zend.com/products/zend_optimizer/. We've already setup an account when we downloaded 2.6.2, so we can simply log in. Of course, if you've forgotten your password you can request assistance, and if you haven't downloaded Zend Optimizer before, you can setup an account.

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