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I recently installed MySQL Community Server 5.5.8 on one of my MacBooks. One of the nice things about the DMG version of MySQL for Snow Leopard is that it comes packaged with a prefpane entry. This adds a MySQL pane to native MacOS System Preferences dialog and allows
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In my post, Install CakePHP on Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.10, we took an in-depth view into installing CakePHP on Ubuntu 10.10. Since then, I’ve received some emails that collectively critiqued my choice of foundational programming language and suggested Ruby on Rails would be more well-
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CakePHP is a framework that allows for rapid PHP development. I recently installed it on one of my home test servers and there were a few steps specific to an Ubuntu install that were required but that were not clearly outlined in the official documentation. The version of the Apache
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Today Drupal 7 Final was officially released into the wild. Drupal is a content management system (CMS). This basically means that it can be used to get a functional website up and running with a minimal amount of hassle. Not only this, but it handles most of the basic administrative
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It is said that the best way to learn how to program is to read and modify other people’s code. Through an open, relatively uninhibited distribution of code, the open source community inherently promotes this learning method. The C programming language is arguably the most archetypal of programming languages,
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The power of Linux lies in the strength of it’s terminal and the ability to process complex commands. New users may be a bit intimidated by the Linux terminal, but here are two of the most basic commands you’ll need to know to do anything productive at a
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When developing any application, it’s important to ask oneself, “How much flexibility am I granting the end user?” The programs that run on our computers are dynamic. Rather quickly, they can be shaped and formed to suit the needs of end users. As long as software bloat/feature creep
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I’ve been doing I.T. consulting work for a long enough time that I feel I have something to contribute to the community or to other would-be consultants/techs. Assuming this blog stays up (yes, that’s right, this blog may not live, because I only build new
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