Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you’re a consultant.
- Scott Adams
octubre 31st, 2007 Posted in Quotes
octubre 31st, 2007 Posted in Quotes
It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.
- Jerry Seinfeld
It’s evolution, baby!
octubre 30th, 2007 Posted in Generalidades
Running MAMP
octubre 29th, 2007 Posted in Generalidades
As I posted previously I’m now running MAMP as I wait for a nice PHP 5 package to be available. I did some research about how MAMP handles the htdocs folder, which is the one where you should have you web pages stored, and here are my findings. MAMP is designed to be self-contained, meaning it will not work if the htdocs folder is outside the MAMP folder in your applications, however, I just, accidentally, found a way of doing this and actually keep MAMP working.
If you open the httpd.conf file in /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache and scroll all the way down, you will find the virtual hosts section, in this section add a new virtual host, like this:
NameVirtualHost *
<VirtualHost *>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot “/Users/Stefan/Sites”
</VirtualHost>
In the previous example /Users/Stefan/Sites is where I have my pages stored and each time I call http://localhost in my browser MAMP will actually load the pages from there, so I have no need of moving everything into the MAMP’s htdocs folder.
You can add as much virtual hosts as you like and place them wherever you like, and MAMP will load and parse them just fine. You’re actually tricking it into believing the files are stored where they “should”.
Leopard and PHP 5
octubre 29th, 2007 Posted in Generalidades
Another one, it’s pretty nice to have PHP 5 bundled with Leopard, but it’s a very basic version of PHP, I guess the only library compiled into it is MySql, theres not even GD, so you will need to compile PHP on your own including all the libraries you need to get it to run. Honestly I’m to lazy for that right now so I just got MAMP up and running for now, until Marc has a compatible version to distribute.
I’ll keep you posted.
Leopard: starting the issues
octubre 28th, 2007 Posted in Generalidades
Amazing! I just completed the entire install, configuration, set-up and finally everything seems to be working on my Mac as it should, but nothing in life is perfect and here we go.
Take important notice of this!!!
When I installed Leopard I chose the default file system (HSFX) which means the HDD will be case sensitive, meaning you can have test.jpg and test.JPG in the same folder and the OS will handle them as different files, which is just what I need for my developing work. However Adobe does not support this format.
I went on to install the CS3 package and got an interesting notice:
After doing some research I found out that Adobe just does not support this file system in their installations since it’s apparently inconceivable that anyone would ever need case-sensitivity as the default file system, so they choose not to support it… I would say they could easily publish that case-sensitive file systems are not supported in the package system requirements or perhaps include anything in the FAQ or general support sections.
Getting CS3 to work would take a reformat and reinstall of my system drive since they use some of the built in frameworks and the system needs to know where to find them.
Never mind that thousands of third-party developers seem to be able to write applications that both leverage system frameworks and work without a hitch on my “unsupported” file system.
Be wise, take a look at this before upgrading to Leopard:
- Applications not compatible with Leopard
- (www.unsanity.com) Compatibility
Moving to Leopard
octubre 28th, 2007 Posted in Generalidades
I have spent my last hours on installing the all-new Leopard on my Mac, it actually went pretty fast. I haven’t had much time to check out the entire thing as I’ve been busy setting up my development environment (Apache, PHP, MySQL).
The good thing is that Leopard ships with Apache 2 and PHP 5.2 pre installed, so you only need to make a couple of changes to get Apache and PHP running in no time, I’ll explain how to do that. The bad news is that the current MySQL package file does not fully work on Leopard, well, the engine actually works, it’s the preference pane that does not work yet, so you won’t be able to use that to stop and start you MySQL DB, I’ll post a nice trick to get that running as well.
Apuntes de cine
octubre 25th, 2007 Posted in Generalidades
Por si alguno se ha fijado, a la izquierda de esta página hay un enlace a “Apuntes de cine”, el cual no se cuanta gente ha visto o seguido hasta la fecha, de todos modos he pensado en montar un blog más adecuado para los que nos gusta el cine. La idea sería la de montar este nuevo blog en un nuevo dominio (propio) fuera de este y tratarlo como algo completamente diferente.
En este nuevo blog de cine todas las personas que quieran podría colocar sus textos, comentarios y opiniones.
Hacer un blog de cine entre todos.
Bueno, veamos como me va con la idea y a ver si consigo el dominio apropiado para hacerlo. Sería bueno recibir opiniones e ideas para el proyecto.
Lo que comen algunos!
octubre 25th, 2007 Posted in Generalidades
Me he quedado impresionado al ver lo que se come el Koke en su almuerzo. Koke es uno de mis compañeros de trabajo y un tipo muy agradable, pero de gordo no tiene un pelo y donde mete semejante cantidad de comida aún me es un misterio. De todos modos será por lo de fumbolista que el tipo se mantiene en forma.
¿Continuamos?
octubre 21st, 2007 Posted in Generalidades
Supongo que es hora de empezar a asumir las cosas y seguir con la vida que hemos llevado hasta ahora, con la diferencia de que un amigo, compañero y maestro ya no está con nosotros y eso hace que todo este asunto de continuar con la vida se haga más complicado de lo que debería ser…
He pasado una semana de constantes bajas emocionales, viendo el pasado en todas partes. Podía escuchar la voz del Yoshi por todo lado, su risa estaba constantemente sonando en el fondo de mi cabeza y, de hecho, aún no me hago a la idea, ni soy capaz de aceptar que ya no volveré a verle nunca más. Tenía tantas ganas de regresar a Cuenca y encontrarnos todos los panas (la manada completa) y volver a las huevadas de siempre, lo haremos, de eso estoy seguro, pero sin el calvo querido.
Mientras el tiempo pasa me dedicaré a pensar menos y menos en mi hermano Yoshi, pensaré menos en que ya no está y más en las cosas que aprendí de el. Pensaré menos en que se fue y más en las buenas cosas que hicimos juntos. Pensaré menos en como se fue y más en como el hubiese querido que me sienta en estos tiempos.
¡Te voy a extrañar la bola pendejo!