APPLE / LINUX / MS

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Developing Locally in Leopard

11th May 2008

Your mac is set up and ready to go, but how exactly do you go about setting Apache up in OS X Leopard these days? Well it's it a bit more like linux now with the demise of Network Manager (I think thats what it was called, been a while since I used tiger), but its not too hard, honest! Firstly decide what suffix your going to use for your local machine, be sensible and use something meaningful like.

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How To: Setup OS X Leopard for a LAMP Development

28th March 2008

Before we start, LAMP = Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP and yes I know Macs aren't Linux based, but FreeBSD is a flavour of Unix so it's close enough! Having recently recieved my lovely new work Macbook Pro and have been setting it up for some serious PHP & MySQL development.

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IE 6 Bug - Repeating Characters

01st February 2008

After coming across this really annoying bug many times I thought it was about time I made a note of it somewhere. When you starting mixing floated containers with non floated containers the IE 6 only parameter hasLayout triggers to -1 causing all sorts of chaos in your layout; most notabley tail characters repeating themselves.

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IE8 Stupidity

24th January 2008

Maybe I spoke to soon when I congratulated the IE8 development team on creating a browser capable of passing Acid2 as it now looks as though they have thrown away all their hard work be being stupid.

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KDE For Windows and OS X

23rd January 2008

Long standing linux desktop environment KDE has now released versions for both windows and os x! Released as part of the KDE 4. 0 event this is the start of many other KDE based applications including Amarok and KOffice should follow suit.

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