Oct 30, 2007 by gary
Mac OS X Leopard comes with a built-in web server (Apache) and with PHP version 5 (5.2.4 to be precise). This makes OS X a great web development platform out of the box and it comes. While there are 3rd party Apache/PHP/MySQL packages like MAMP, XAMP it isn't hard to get the native PHP and Apache working.
There is a great article on this here.
Sep 5, 2007 by Peter
Microsoft announced today the release of Silverlight 1.0 for Windows and Mac and support for Moonlight, a Linux implementation of Silverlight. Up until today Microsoft was a bit standoffish toward Moonlight, but today something changed in Microsoft land. They've announced support for internal specification and test suite as well as access to codecs, more details here.
So why is this "important"? You can pretty much do everything that Silverlight ...
Sep 5, 2007 by Cristi
When you have to start a new web project from scratch and you get absolutely no indication from the client as to what colors he/she would like on their site, or if they have just one base color to start with, where do you turn to? Color scheme generators? No? Sure?
Anyway, here's a short list of my favorite color tools for the web:
My main and favorite one: ColorMatch ...
Aug 30, 2007 by Cristi
Tired of my bulky Eclipse installation, out-of-memory messages, on-screen scrambled text due to bugs or memory resources (although I have 4 GB of RAM), I have decided to give "e" a try. E has just recently come out of beta, and although some vi (or other editor) enthusiasts out there might say it's a waste of hard drive space, I think e is a very good alternative for ...
Aug 17, 2007 by Cristi
Nobody enjoys that basic file manager that comes with the software installed by your web host... or do you? Well, you might have to reconsider when you take a look at Relay File Manager, an Open-Source php file manager that looks and works very similar to Windows Explorer or the Mac file browser.
Relay supports features like:
dragging-and-dropping files and folders
refreshing the server-side folder view without reloading the page
upload progress ...
Aug 13, 2007 by Peter
My first blog post ever, hopefully not the last. This morning my friend Cristi asked me to join Hi-Tech Squad and blog about technology. I’m all about efficiency in code, so I’m going to try to do the same in writing – i.e. as little blah blah as possible.
Problem: In an ASP.NET 2.0 page we have a long list of items (in a GridView or Repeater) with some ...
