Firefox 1.5.0.7 released today

• September 14, 2006
• James Skemp

Firefox 1.5.0.7 was released today.  Once again, I found out about this by seeing a site mention it, instead of my browser notifying me ... Ah well.  It's recommended that you download, so go do it!  Note that the partial download failed for me.  Firefox actually had to download a 6.1 MB file to update Firefox, instead of the under 600 KB file it initially downloaded.  While I was at it, I checked my Extensions for updates, which I also recommend you do as well.

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Version control systems - any suggestions?

• September 14, 2006
• James Skemp

Version control is something that I've been interested in for the past several months (actually, what month is it, September? I guess it's been longer than just a couple of months) but that I haven't been able to dig into as much as I'd like. Subversion keeps coming up as a good piece of software, with the addition of Trac. Since I wrote the guide to installing Apache 2.0.x a bit ago, I have no reason for not getting started with Subversion.

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How to backup Playstation 2 memory cards?

• September 9, 2006
• James Skemp

I'll be needing to get a new Playstation 2 memory card shortly, since the I've got less than a MB left on each of the two cards I currently have. While there's some extra Final Fantasy X saves that I could go through and delete, I'd really like to backup the saves that I have to my computer. After a bit of searching, I'm just not sure what to purchase ...

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Dreamweaver 8 as a MXML IDE?

• September 7, 2006
• James Skemp

I've spent the last couple of hours trying to get Dreamweaver 8 to begin to function as a MXML IDE. Unfortunately, while I can get every <mx: tag added to the code hints, I'm having a heck of a time getting the actual code hints to function. The small tutorial that Macromedia (and truly it was Macromedia at the time) provided isn't very helpful at all. CodeSnipers.com (link below) has some information on using Dreamweaver 8 a Ruby IDE, but since Ruby appears to be so function based .

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Compiling Flex applications with Dreamweaver

• September 6, 2006
• James Skemp

Tom Lee wrote a post in July detailing how to compile and run Flex applications using Dreamweaver. Since Flex 2 is making me very excited, I felt it was post worthy (especially since I won't have to do a Google search to get back to his post now).

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Lynx for Win32

• September 5, 2006
• James Skemp

Courtesy of Jim Spath, you can download Lynx 2.8.5rel1 for Windows here.

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Determining 3D Distances and Angles

• September 4, 2006
• James Skemp

Near the top of one of the sections in the POV-Ray™ 3.5 manual there is a quote about wishing that past mathematical formulas were remembered, or something to that effect. I too wish I had remembered what I had learned in some of my past math classes, but after a bit of research, I have begun to work on some of the information that I have forgotten. Here is one of those areas.

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This could be a commercial (Schopenhauer)

• September 1, 2006
• James Skemp

Arthur Schopenhauer's Sämtliche Werke (5 paperbook collection)

$117.67

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Installing Apache 2.0.59 to a Windows-based computer, locally: Part 4

• August 28, 2006
• James Skemp

In the previous three parts of this guide, we setup Apache 2.0.59 and then created the necessary connections to use ActivePerl, mod_perl, ColdFusion MX 6.1, ColdFusion MX 7.0.2, PHP 4.4.2, PHP 5.1.4, MySQL 4.1.18, and PostgreSQL 8.1.3. This time, we're going to bring everything together by creating a number of batch files to fairly easily switch between various Web server setups. What is a batch file? A batch file is basically a way to run a number of Windows prompts at once.

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Installing Apache 2.0.59 to a Windows-based computer, locally: Part 3

• August 26, 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. In Part 2 of this Apache 2.0.59 guide, we setup ColdFusion MX 6.1 and 7.0. This time, we'll be continuing in our quest by adding support for both PHP 4 and PHP 5. In previous guides, we installed PHP 4 and PHP 5, so if you need to install either one, do so with the above directions.

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