Apple Life
happy birthday Salsa! (and iMac)
Just a quick note to let everyone know my cat Salsa turned 4 and the iMac also turned 5 on Sunday.
Apple UNIX Web Development
On the Wagon, Off the Wagon with Mac OS X Server
What a morning. Surprise surprise…I decided to install Mac OS X Server on my PowerBook to play around with the Apache conf (since I legally own two copies that just sit in my drawer). Ever since Mac OS X Server 1.0 came out I was excited to use Mac OS X Server. I loved AppleShare […]
Apple UNIX
those crazy Mac OS X/Mac OS X Server error messages!
If you did not notice, I have a thing for wierd and often funny Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server error messages. I periodically update the image on the right hand side that is a screen shot of an error I have received. Keep looking for new and exciting errors. PS. The “You […]
Apple
On Retiring “The Machine”
Today marks a sad day. My faithful Apple Blue and White G3 350 is moving off the desk and in to the display. I have had it on my desk since early 1999. I ordered it on January 6th, 1999 after seeing the keynote at Penn State. I was so impressed with this computer when […]
HOWTOs UNIX Web Development
rsync: synch both boot and data volumes.
If you have mission critical servers, you know that a backup is essential. I do not want my mission critical web server to go down. Along comes rsync. How to set up rsync to synch my boot drive (and make it bootable) as well as synch my data files (html/php files): First, you will to […]
Web Development
the art of php include().
Let’s face it, no one wants to make several changes to the same portion of a web page when you have static information/pages. Enter php include(). If you have a common header, footer, block of information that needs to be on multiple pages and the thought of only editting something once instead of on multiple […]
CSS jappler.com Standards Web Development
conquerer of css layout!
I finally took the next step with CSS and created/modified my digitalclutter layout so I now have more time to focus on my content! I will be adding/adjusting some little things, but I think I am finally happy with the layout.
jappler.com Standards
new look.
It is that time where I am customizing the look and feel of this web site so stay tuned for some future enhancement and changes. Eventually I will fully customize the template that I am currently using, but small steps first. I still need to adjust the right side of the page, but it is […]
Apple UNIX Web Development
why I use Mac OS X client on my Xserve for web serving needs.
I was recently asked to defend my decision to run OS X Client on my Xserve and I thought others might like to know why as well. Changing the IP. I have written about this before. I have a mission critical web server. I want to upgrade the OS or the hardware, so for maximum […]
WordPress
new photo plugin.
I am installing more and more plugins to further customize my blog. Today: wp-photo by Alex King.
Apache Apple HOWTOs UNIX Web Development
redirecting domain.com to www.domain.com.
So you have a web server and one/some domain names. You want to have all requests to domain.com to go to www.domain.com. most companies have this redirect in place (Apple is an example). I was stumped when I first set out to do this…so here is what I learned from our friends on the Apache […]
UNIX Web Development
what's on my web server?
It is time to build another web server, and this time I will write about what is on it. I have built this configuration on the original iMac all the way up to the latest Xserve with success, so it is possible to make a cheap web server out of an older computer. To further […]