Category development

Local Host Entries on OS X Snow Leopard

Today I wanted to setup local host entries on my MacBook. Searching around I found several articles about editing the /private/etc/hosts file to add local domains entries pointing back to my computer. I don’t know if it is something that changed with Leopard or Snow Leopard but it just wasn’t working for me. Even restarting [...]

ColdFusion Development using VirtualBox and Ubuntu 9.10

Here is how I setup a VirtualBox Virtual Machine (VM) running Ubuntu 9.10 Server edition for ColdFusion development on my MacBook Pro.

Automate WordPress Upgrade on Grid Server

Many of the domains and sub-domains on my Media Temple Grid Service contain installations of WordPress. Since I don’t want to be bothered by a normal upgrades here is how I install WordPress in a way that allows for simple upgrades. This is not a completely automated solution, there is more that you could do [...]

Eclipse 3.4 On Ubuntu 8.04.1

Something that really bugged me (and still does) about the ubuntu since I installed it is that eclipse is not even close to being the latest version in the package manager. That just seems really strange to me to have such and awesome and widely used IDE not supported in Ubuntu. Anyhow I am not [...]