Web development is a very common hobby. At least that’s what I keep telling myself. Whether it is or not, I’m a web developer. As such, I spend a fair amount of my spare time reading about web development, watching videos about web development and for sure doing web development. As I set out to install my development tools on my new computer I thought I would chronicle the process. If you’re interested in setting up your own web development platform using mostly open source tools then read on and check out my approach.
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I don’t like to use the word love when talking about machines, but I think it would be fair to say that I’m really, really happy about my new computer. With my brother’s help in designing and building my new home desk top I’m absolutely thrilled to say that my new baby is plugged in, patched up, online and looking to game and a whole lot more!
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SmugMug Photo Sharing and Video Sharing is a private and long term profitable Premium only commercial web site. Don MacAskill, the CEO of SmugMug, gave the keynote speech at a MySQL conference. Don posted the video of his speech on his blog. He is talking about the Percona builds of MySQL which is what I’m planning to deploy so I was eager to watch his presentation. It is a great summary of the architecture of SmugMug and the problems they are working to solve around MySQL. If you have an interest in web solution architectures you should absolutely check it out.
If you find that documenting your PHP projects is the least fun activity you can think of then you might want to give one of the automated code documenters a try. Below are two that may be worth a look. If you know of others then please post a comment and share.
My most recent diabolical plan was to automatically update my Facebook “wall” with my blog posts. My friends on Facebook would increase my blog audience by, well, hopefully more than 0. Anyway, there were some technical difficulties with the plugin or the user, but I’m willing to concede it was probably caused by cosmic rays if the plugin author is. Basically when I configured the FT FacePress II Plugin I entered my Facebook mobile account in both the Profile and Page update areas. That did not work. According to Alan who is the super helpful author of the plugin (Thanks Alan!). I can’t use the same account in both places. I’ve update the settings and if nothing else is wrong you should see this blog post on my Facebook page. I need to send a follow up e-mail to Alan to have the property edits prevent the user from using the same Facebook mobile e-mail twice. Either that or he could read this post? Yeah, I may go with that. Here’s hoping you see me (or more specifically this post) on Facebook!
