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Written by Webmaster
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Wednesday, 28 March 2007 |
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This is a page where I have some random hints, thoughts, and suggestions for those doing development.
 Joomla
| Installing Joomla on Your Mac
As indicated, this site was developed using Joomla on a Mac. This site has great directions. Seriously. I'm not a wiz at CSS and PHP, but by doing it locally I probably increased my productivity (error to correction time) by 2-3x. |
 Firebug
| Firebug is your friend
While developing this site I had to edit two pages of CSS code. This doesn't sound like much, except one of the pages was over 500 lines long. I don't know about you, but when i hit that much CSS code my brain goes on hold and I start reaching for a beer to calm it! Firebug is one of those simple yet sweet pieces of code that I'm sure folks in the know already knew about. |  Mamp
| MAMP
if you are doing PHP, MySQL and Apache, I strongly suggest heading over to MAMP.info for this free package that wraps everything up into a nice sweet package. Again, this makes development of websites that use MySQL very easy (well, it at leasts gets you a running jump at the environment).
|  VMWare
| VMWare is Major Cool
Using this under Linux gives me a VERY stable Windows platform (as opposed to using an x86 like you normally would). As an added bonus, should you need to, it is very simple to move the image from Linux box to Linux box. Compare that to doing it the old fashioned way (Ghosting.... ugh!). | |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 25 April 2007 )
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