Archive for the 'Web Authoring' Category

Mac OS X Installation Instructions That Don’t Suck! (Rails, Lighttpd, MySQL, Apache2, PHP5)

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

I had to reinstall my computer the other day, it’s needed it for a while (mostly because I’ve installed every stupid program I could get my hands on for the last 6 months). I haven’t wanted to reinstall because I had a “working” install of Rails and I remembered how hard it was to [...]

RadRails 0.5.3 Is Out!

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

RadRails 0.5.3 has been released! It seems like forever since we’ve seen a release from the RadRails team (but, it really hasn’t been that long, they were just spoiling us with such a fast release schedule). The biggest change in this release is the reintegration of the RDT Ruby IDE.
I haven’t had time to try [...]

No Native Flash Player For Intel Macs

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

According to reports from around the web, the Flash Player does not run well inside Safari or Firefox on the new Intel Macs (using Rosetta). Adobe has known about the switch to Intel for more than half a year, isn’t that enough time to make the Flash Player work on the new processors? Where [...]

WebKit Nightly Builds Offer Great New Features For Web Developers

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

I recently learned that you can download nightly builds of WebKit. What is WebKit? From the site, “WebKit is the system framework used on Mac OS X by Safari, Dashboard, Mail.app, and many other OS X applications. It is based on the KHTML engine from KDE.”
Why would you want to download and use WebKit [...]

Matt Mullenweg Interview

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

Matt Mullenweg, creator of WordPress, was interviewed on episode 119 of The Linux Link Tech Show.  It’s an interesting listen.