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Comment on Setting up the Perfect Web Development Environment, Part 1 by Chris

Chris — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:48:43 +0000

Steve – Operating System is a matter of personal preference. My main work machine is also my main gaming machine, and I’ve been using Windows all my life. I might at some point switch my laptop to Ubuntu (not using Xfce – I personally like Gnome, but again that’s a matter of preference) – but I can only do that when I can afford the dip in productivity from switching to a less familiar environment. The only non-trivial disadvantage to using Windows over a Linux distro for my line of work is it’s a bit more of a hassle setting up things like PEAR (covered in a future instalment).

Comment on Setting up the Perfect Web Development Environment, Part 1 by steve

steve — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:38:25 +0000

Outrageous even contemplating being a programmer running on windows. its actually laughable.
Use ubuntu 11.10 running on the XFCE desktop environment, get komodo edit desktop, install a LAMP stack, get firefox with the firebug addon aswell as safari and chrome. install virtual box with windows 7 in it (for testing on IE) and your all set. great setup.as for file storage, get a NAS server, link your apache config to a www directory on the server, then you have access to everything from everywhere in the world through a ssh tunnel or ftp or http.

Comment on Load JQuery from Google’s CDN with local fallback in WordPress by Kevin Robertson

Kevin Robertson — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:02:19 +0000

Awesome stuff. Love the idea of caching with WP transients to cut down on the HTTP requests.

Comment on Load JQuery from Google’s CDN with local fallback in WordPress by Simon Vincent

Simon Vincent — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:30:13 +0000

Excellent write up Chris, much appreciated

Comment on Load JQuery from Google’s CDN with local fallback in WordPress by MikeChipshop

MikeChipshop — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:26:21 +0000

Great article mate and a great follow up to the discussion on WDF!
Going to nick this for use in my projects from now on

Comment on Setting up the Perfect Web Development Environment, Part 2 by Chris

Chris — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:34:52 +0000

That’s a damn good point, Rob. The documentation refers to all entries for a single host being specified on a single line, including all aliases – which, as far as name-based virtual hosts are concerned, is the same thing.

I’d definitely advise using a single line in production, but I’m thinking the multi-line configuration is a touch more readable in dev. Suppose it’s a matter of preference.

Comment on Setting up the Perfect Web Development Environment, Part 2 by Rob

Rob — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:00:17 +0000

One thing to note about the vhosts is that you may get a slow lookup if you have the same IP on multiple lines, as this can confuse the DNS. The very first time I setup a vhost there was a pause of around 5 reconds while the entry was being looked up by the internal DNS. So instead of

127.0.0.1  localhost
127.0.0.1  theinterweb
127.0.0.1  website.local

have:

127.0.0.1  localhost theinterweb website.local

Basically, keep one IP, per line and don’t repeat

Comment on Installing and Configuring SVNServe and TortoiseSVN on Windows by Volceri

Volceri — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:30:57 +0000

Thanks!

Comment on Adaptive Content (with a dash of jQuery) by Chris Cox

Chris Cox — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:45:47 +0000

A little of Column A, little of Column B. The original plugin I used has been abandoned. I spoke briefly to the maintainer about it, and I'll be launching a fork shortly based on my hacking of his original code.

Comment on Adaptive Content (with a dash of jQuery) by Rob

Rob — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:40:05 +0000

A bit off topic and out of pure ‘noseyness’, are you using a WordPress plugin to automatically catch known acronymns or is it something you’ve written yourself?