Installing Apache, PHP and MySQL on Vista
I was expecting the worst, but got everything up and running in about 30 minutes due to some damn easy to follow tutorials. I guess I probably could have figured it out myself, but it’s nice to just...
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Site updates!
So I’ve finally updated my web site. www.alien109.com Ported all of the javascript over to jQuery and ditched those ancient JavaScript libraries I’d written years ago Implemented some keyword searching...
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After working on a small AJAX library, I decided to test it in IE. Everything worked great, except when requesting XML. The responseXML property of the XHR was null. I’ve had this issue in the past...
View ArticlegZip your JavaScript
Most browsers these days (with the exception of Safari, I think?) will accept gzip encoded content. This means you can drastically reduce the size of all those bloated javascript libraries you might be...
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Running PHP cron jobs on a MediaTemple DV server
Recently I was attempting to create some cron jobs to run PHP scripts on a DV server or at MediaTemple, with PHP installed as an Apache module (rather than CGI). I was able to execute the php file,...
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