Here are some hints for those of you that use a XAMPP install for testing your developments on your local machine.
I am using a Windows machine running XP Pro and this is how I setup my VirtualHosts. The conf file you need to amend is located at c:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf Open it up in your […]
Category Archives: Internet
XAMPP VirtualHosts
June 14, 2008 – 12:08 pm
Installing Agavi on XAMPP Windows
May 18, 2008 – 11:44 am
Having recently heard of the Agavi project from a web framework showdown at a PHP conference in the UK I have decided to trial it. My setup is a WinXP computer with a default install of the latest XAMPP which has thrown up some issues with installing and building Agavi. Please see my […]
Geographic Calculations in PHP
December 10, 2006 – 12:27 am
Recently I have been involved with a project that maps yachts during an ocean race, which got me thinking about basic calculations and conversions that would be useful to fellow developers. I envisage this being useful in projects leveraging Google or Yahoo maps. For the moment the class performs the following functions:
Calculate the […]
Secondary DNS for Free
December 9, 2006 – 9:09 am
I recently had a server go offline, taking with it the DNS for my main email domain. I had long suspected this would be a major potential problem in the setup. When the server went down the DNS settings where not backed up by the hosting company so all of a sudden people […]
Flickering Images
March 17, 2006 – 3:06 pm
I have been asked numerous times in the past how I create this effect in some forum signatures so now I am releasing the code so you can see. It could equally be used as a background image in CSS (like the photo of the excavator above) so you could have a circulating series […]
Optus Cable + Port 25 (SMTP)
December 21, 2005 – 3:38 am
I have been setting up a mail server of which smtp is an integral part. I could access it through my old net connection at home and I can through work but I am currently staying somewhere with Optus Cable. They block port 25! I called their tech support to confirm, he […]
