Tangential Musings

I don’t personally use the MAMP application nor do I condone its use. However, a reader posted a comment asking how to setup virtual hosts within MAMP. So here you go: A simple guide on how to setup named-based virtual hosts in the MAMP environment. [...]

I find that when I read a PDF document on my computer I like to take notes. Sometimes I get really lazy and just copy and paste chunks of text into a text file for future reference. But just a moment ago I tried to copy a bit of text and it said I needed a password! I didn’t want to type up a whole page of content so what I did was hit command + p on my Mac (or for Windows ctrl + p) and then under the “PDF” drop down menu clicked “Save as PDF…” [...]

This is a simple guide on how to setup name-based virtual hosts in Apache on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). This tutorial is intended as a supplement to my article, How to setup Apache, PHP, & MySQL on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).

What are virtual hosts used for?
In the case of this tutorial we will create a virtual host to let us access a subfolder on our local web server at a custom address like http://application/ or http://application.local/ instead of having to type in a longer URL like http://localhost/~shortname/application [...]

This a very simple guide on how to change a file’s date modified and date created attributes on Mac OS X (this should work on both 10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard). [...]

Want to learn how to design professional websites using only freely available open source tools? I thought it might be an interesting topic and if you share this interest please don’t hesitate to comment with what you’d like to learn about (this will help me determine whether or not it will be worth while to continue posting on this topic). I’m planning to write about XHTML, CSS, and graphic design (to a much lesser extent). I’d be willing to cover more advanced topics like JavaScript, PHP, and MySQL but would rather discuss the use of the JavaScript and PHP frameworks MooTools and CodeIgniter respectively. Just let me know. [...]

Since I’m on winter break and have some spare time, I thought it would be helpful if I posted a little tutorial on how to setup Apache 2.2.6, PHP 5.2.4, and MySQL 5.0.45 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).

I recently purchased a very sleek MacBook from Apple.com, thinking to myself, why not end the year in style? Anyway, after I got all my old applications installed and some of my files moved over from my PowerMac G5 I proceeded to enable Apache2 and PHP5. Usually, I use lighttpd instead of Apache and compile everything from source but this setup was just so simple I decided not to bother with anything painstakingly long, which building from source can very well be. [...]

I recently did a comparison of the Yahoo! Publisher Network (YPN) and Chitika eMiniMalls, as I did once before with the Yahoo! Publisher Network and Google AdSense. As some of you may know Chitika has been getting a lot of hype lately, but I honestly don’t think it’s warranted. Those bloggers that so aggressively promote it are hoping that their readers click their referral link and sign up for the program, which gives them 10% of whatever you earn through Chitika (same will happen if you click the link I provided above - that is of course if I’m still a member of the program when you do). [...]

I’ll be up front about this, I prefer the Mac OS to Linux and Windows (and obviously all the other operating systems I neglected to mention), so a lot of these web browsers are Mac-only. Below is a list of web browsers I tested on my Apple Power Mac G5 running Mac OS X: [...]

Last week I was scouring the net in search of a web host for one of my clients. I tend to always have problems finding a good hosting provider, but this time I stumbled upon this nifty site called Web Hosting Search. Their cheap web hosting top list and their page concerning Linux hosting proved really helpful in my decision making process.

If you’ve read my about page you may have noticed that I’m half Filipino - not that it’s important to understanding my reason for posting this, as human suffering is something that should affect us all in some way. I recently spent a couple weeks in the Philippines and as always I was greeted by the extreme hardships the children of poverty are forced to endure day after day. While the Philippines has many beautiful places, the video below gives you a glimpse of the indigence that ravages the third world. It’s in Tagalog with English subtitles and I must say may be potentially disturbing for some. [...]