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 [...]
Mac OS X Installation Instructions That Don’t Suck! (Rails, Lighttpd, MySQL, Apache2, PHP5)
by Jim on 28. Feb, 2006 in Apple, Mac OS X, Open Source, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Software, Tech, Web Authoring
Why I Want To Learn PHP
by Jim on 17. Aug, 2004 in PHP, Web Authoring
For those of you who know me, and know my past work on the web, the idea of me learning PHP may shock you. Why would I do such a thing? I’ve always preferred ASP to PHP and spent a good chunk of last year learning ASP.NET and VB.NET! I just finished building a website [...]
PHP 5 – The Easy Way
by Jim on 22. Jul, 2004 in PHP, Web Authoring
As you probably know, PHP 5.0 was just released a few days ago. I’ve been keeping an eye on this new PHP release because it looks like the community has made some great improvements. The main things that interest me are a new object-oriented model (it’s about time!), better xml support (again, about [...]

