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Shrop in the News

shrop — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:34:03 -0400

I made it in online news circles twice today.

Shrop on a UNC Charlotte staff bowling team: http://www.publicrelations.uncc.edu/campusnews/current/aroundCampus/inde... (scroll down to the bowling tournament article.)

Shrop on usage of Citrix at UNC Charlotte: http://www.edtechmag.com/higher/november-december-2008/get-a-grip.html (scroll down to the section titled, "Central Control, Standard Operations."

Hug a Developer Today

shrop — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:29:00 -0400

Picked this up on Twitter. Thank @underoak!

Setup Local Apache/MySQL/PHP Dev Environment in OS X Leopard

shrop — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:38:03 -0400

I have used MAMP for a long time, but I recently decided to build a development environment on my MacBook Pro to mirror my test and production servers. MAMP uses Apache 2.0 and I really wanted to run Apache 2.2. I also needed custom PHP for use with Oracle databases. I just want

ed to share the documentation to setup my development environment. Feel free to comment and let me know if you have any improvements.

How To Set Up an FTP Server in Windows Server 2003

shrop — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:53:05 -0400

I needed to install just the FTP service on Windows 2003 Server for one simple use case. The article below details how to accomplish this without installing full blown IIS (which I didn't need and do not want to run on this server).

[From How To Set Up an FTP Server in Windows Server 2003]

cPanel Update Improves VPS Memory Usage

shrop — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:19:02 -0400

cPanel just announced a number of changes in the new 11.23 version. The biggest change for my needs is the smaller memory footprint. They are claiming 60% less memory usage. This will really help me a ton as PHP/MySQL sites can eat up some ram. I also like to run as many sites as I can on one server to reduce my overhead costs.

Check out all the details here: http://blog.cpanel.net/?p=51

This update is a RELEASE version. It is not currently in the STABLE update tree.