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• A Good Windows Development Environment and Ubuntu Virtualbox February 18, 2009

  Often Linux just does it better! Often I find myself developing a Windows machine without access to a Linux development server, but I still need to access to some of the Linux binaries and features such as cron jobs, the at command and binaries such as imagemagick, pdftotext, etc. Some things can be emulated with ported binaries or through Cygwin, but I feel a lot more comfortable developing on a platform that is representative of the live server the web site will run on. Read more ⇒

• Agavi 1.0 Beta on XAMPP 1.7.0 January 2, 2009

  To install the new XAMPP ensure you firstly uninstall and remove your current XAMPP folder. Upgrades are not supported with this version due to the differences one of which is the removal of PHP4 support from the XAMPP package. I like to install agavi via the pear package that is available: Open a command prompt and navigate to your XAMPP directory eg. D:\xampp\php Execute: pear channel-discover pear.agavi.org pear config-set auto_discover 1 pear config-set preferred_state beta pear install -a agavi/agavi Wait for a bit as it installs Read more ⇒

• XAMPP VirtualHosts June 14, 2008

  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 favourite editor and un-comment the following line near the top of the file: NameVirtualHost *:80 This will enable the creation of VirtualHosts in your XAMMP installation. Read more ⇒

• Installing Agavi on XAMPP Windows May 18, 2008

  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 hints below to overcome these issues. Open a command prompt (type cmd in the run console) Navigate to your XAMMP PHP directory. Read more ⇒