PHP Dev Environment in OS X Leopard

Submitted by shrop on Thu, 07/17/2008 - 12:38am

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.

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Mac OSX Subversion Client: Cornerstone

Submitted by shrop on Tue, 07/08/2008 - 9:11am

Cornerstone is a Mac OS X SVN client. I can tell you that this app is awesome!

The interface takes a number of UI cues from iTunes by using one window. The one window interface is much more efficient on a laptop. You do have the option in preferences to switch to a multi window mode.

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Drupal Block Visibilty PHP Code Snippets

Submitted by shrop on Mon, 07/07/2008 - 2:53pm

I Just added some block visibility code snippets to my www.snipplr.com account at http://snipplr.com/users/shrop/tags/drupal/.

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What's jQuery Presentation

Submitted by shrop on Sat, 06/28/2008 - 11:42am

I presented a brief intro to jQuery at UNC Charlotte's Web Developer's Group meeting on June 27th, 2008. If you want to check out the slides, they are linked below:

What's jQuery Presentation

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Drop Down Menus: Ugghh!

Submitted by shrop on Fri, 06/13/2008 - 7:42am

I am just not a fan of drop down menus. I think they should be avoided at all cost. They don't always work in every browser and they can become a usability and accessibility issue. Jeffery Zeldman sums it up nicely: http://bobchristenson.tumblr.com/post/38016909/when-i-see-a-drop-down-menu-i-know-that-a

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