Archive for August 2010
MAMP vhost and WordPress
26 Aug 2010I’ve setup MAMP to do some local web development on my MacBookPro, and the XDebug plugin is awesome for stepping through PHP code.
However, I had a problem with MAMP and a vhost I setup for local development. The wordpress front page and /wp-admin/ worked but any sub pages, etc. failed to load. When trying to access a WordPress page at url http://site.local/music/ The error in the apache logs was:
Whyday comes and goes
25 Aug 2010If you’re a tech head, and you’ve been around Object Orientated languages – then you’ve surely heard of Ruby.
I’ve been around people who are passionate about Ruby, but never caught the bug. What I did do whilst others were programming away, was read about ruby. One day whilst reading I came across the name of an online persona Why the lucky stiff, also known as _why.
Whilst _why was/is considered a prolific and influential programmer of Ruby, what was fascinating was his disappearance.
Exponential World
13 Aug 2010We ARE living in exponential times, as this video clearly documents.
I first saw this video at Eastman’s Genealogy website.
Original research of the figure and facts is by Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, and Jeff Brenman.