Planned updates for the next couple of days

• February 22, 2006
• James Skemp

Since I've got a couple more days worth of tutorials already written, and since things are now going relatively smoothly (I had a couple of problems with the MySQL implementation as a whole), I figured I would give an update to what I've been doing, and what I will be doing. Tonight, I'll be posting the tutorial on getting PHP up and running.  Within a day, or maybe two, of doing that, I'll be walking through the installation of MySQL and phpMyAdmin.

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Installing Perl on a local Windows-based, Apache, server

• February 21, 2006
• James Skemp

Now that we've installed Apache, configured our log files, and setup a log file analysis tool, it's time to install Perl. Perl will allow us to expand our horizons, and specifically will help us install a better log analyzer.

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Log file analysis of our Windows-based, Apache, Web sites

• February 20, 2006
• James Skemp

In our previous articles, we walked through installing Apache to a Windows XP home computer.  This time, we'll be setting up our log files for analysis, and installing a way to view the log file information. Log files are created by Web sites to track page views and visitors.  For example, if we go to a page on one of our local Web sites with Firefox, like http://website.localhost/, it adds the following lines to a file called access.

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Setting up Dreamweaver and Nvu to recognize your server

• February 19, 2006
• James Skemp

Now that we've setup Apache on our local computer, and effectively created a basic Web server, it's time to look at setting up some popular programs to work with these sites. I'll be looking at two programs, the costly Dreamweaver (8) and the free Nvu (1.0).

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Creating additional testing sites in Apache, on a local Windows computer

• February 18, 2006
• James Skemp

It may happen that you'd like to test multiple sites on one machine. There's a number of ways to do this. Following our previous tutorial, Installing Apache to a Windows-based computer, locally, we can either dump additional folders in our Apache root, or we can create additional subdomains under localhost.

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Installing Apache to a Windows-based computer, locally

• February 16, 2006
• James Skemp

In this tutorial, we'll be walking through the installation of Apache 1.3 to an average home computer running Windows XP, Home Edition (SP1). Anyone running an average home computer, with a newer version of Windows, like XP, should be able to follow these steps and have an installation of their own. Older versions of Windows, like 98 and Me, should also be able to handle an installation, although some steps may differ slightly.

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RIAA wants CD ripping to be illegal?

• February 16, 2006
• James Skemp

It's true, at least from news stories currently coming in. RIAA et al. says CD ripping, backups not fair use and RIAA now says ripping is illegal. I think we're finally getting down to the basic point now.  Is file-sharing bad?  No (again, as I've stressed elsewhere, p2p networks allow the sharing of more than just copyrighted material).  Is the RIAA losing money bad?  Looks like it. Yeesh.

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Gmail accounts - and Gmail-Talk interaction thoughts

• February 15, 2006
• James Skemp

First off, Gmail accounts are basically a dime-a-dozen these days, but if you're still looking to pick up an account, I have a number of invites I'd be willing to shed.

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Apache, PHP, MySQL, ColdFusion, and all the like

• February 14, 2006
• James Skemp

Near the end of the January, I talked about installing ColdFusion on my home computer. Starting this week (hopefully), I'll be writing a number of posts detailing how to go about doing these installations, with the express purpose of creating an environment for the testing of Web pages, or the learning of HTML/PHP/ColdFusion.

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Yes, I do like the Internet Explorer 7 ad

• February 10, 2006
• James Skemp

Bink.nu has a link to a WMV file of the IE 7 teaser video. To say the least, it's cute - in a very good way.

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