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Archive for the "development" Tag

A Public MIT License Resource

Pretty much every personal project I work on I try to make it publicly available - usually under an MIT license - but I pretty much always forget to include an MIT license file. There's an Open Source Initiative with the license, but it doesn't have the date, nor the license holder. So I've released [...]

Throttling function calls

If you've written any kind of validation on user input, like onkeypress then you'll know that sometimes you want to throttle the amount of times your function runs. A good example of this is Ajax based username validation - you don't want to hit the server on every key press, because most users will be [...]

Code Highlighting

Since I'm always posting code snippets, it made sense to apply some syntax highlighting. There's a few different ways to achieve this depending on your preference.

LAMP in Leopard OSX 10.5 (PHP5 and Apache 2.2)

Following my how to setup your mac web development environment, and today moving to Leopard, my entire offline environment is broken - this is entirely due to the move from Apache 1.3 to Apache 2.2. This article will discuss the changes required to get your multi-host mac dev environment running again with PHP5, MySQL, Apache 2 [...]

How to setup your Mac web development environment

Following my accident a couple of weeks ago, I've now been blessed with a new MacBook Pro which needs setting up again. So, I thought I'd document setting up MySQL, PHP5 and Apache with multiple virtual hosts.

Firebug 1.0 beta

Firebug 1.0 beta for Firefox was released this month, and oh my, the Swiss Army knife of the browsers just got wings - and there's even support (via a Firebug Lite) for IE, Safari and Opera.