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Xanadu? Olivia Newton-John? Seriously?

corey brown — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:37:26 +0000

Today, Amazon sent me the strangest recommendation I’ve ever received:

We’ve noticed that customers who have purchased or rated “” have also purchased “Xanadu - Magical Musical Edition (With Complete Soundtrack CD)” on DVD. For this reason, you might like to know that “Xanadu - Magical Musical Edition (With Complete Soundtrack CD)” will be released on June 24, 2008. You can pre-order yours at a savings of $4.99 by following the link below…

Please don’t buy me that as a gift if it shows up on my profile. I don’t care what Amazon tells you.

links for 2008-04-18

corey brown — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:43:35 +0000

links for 2008-04-10

corey brown — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:41:44 +0000

OAuth — An open protocol to allow secure API authentication in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications.

An open protocol to allow secure API authentication in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications.

(tags: api OAuth opensource)
OAuth Sandbox - Test Environment For OAuth - OAuth Sandbox

This is a sandbox for testing OAuth server and consumer connections.

(tags: OAuth)

links for 2008-04-08

corey brown — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:40:05 +0000

StringFoo :: Web Development Resources» Blog Archive » Setting up a Web Server on Leopard (OS X 10.5) Using MAMP - A Step by Step Guide (Revised)

(tags: mamp howto)

links for 2008-03-24

corey brown — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:29:55 +0000

Vaga | Ten by Twenty ™

(tags: icons)
Visual jQuery 1.0 (Automated)

(tags: jquery reference)

links for 2008-03-07

corey brown — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:30:54 +0000

Good PHP Tutorials - Beginner To Advanced PHP Programming Tutorials

(tags: PHP tutorial)
35 (Really) Incredible Free Icon Sets

(tags: icons webdesign)
jQuery plugins (240 of them!)

(tags: jquery plugins ajax)

Running virtual sites on WAMP

corey brown — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:16:04 +0000

Update: Wordpress ate some of my code on the original post, which is now fixed. Thanks to Josh for pointing it out!

I recently installed WAMP on my Windows laptop and wanted to run multiple virtual sites on it, so I could develop locally as if I was on the live web server.

I searched Google and found lots of tutorials, but none of them worked for me (probably because I’m a newbie at this server stuff!) After lots of trial and error, I discovered a solution.

So, here’s how to create a few new dev sites you can browse on your local computer, as if they were live:

Step 1: Site directories

Add new development site directories to your web root (i.e., inside c:\wamp\www\).

For our example, we’ll add the following 3 directories for our projects:

devsite1
devsite2
devsite3

Step 2: Update Apache’s httpd.conf file

Open the httpd.conf file. (If you’re using WAMP, look for the icon in the task bar, click it, select Apache and then “httpd.conf” to open the file.)

Search for this line:
NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1

If it doesn’t exist, scroll down and add that line to the bottom of the file.

Step 3: add your site(s) to Apache

Note: I use a .dev extension for my development sites, inspired by the many tutorials I’ve seen around the web.

Now add your new sites to the bottom of the httpd.conf file:

 
   ServerName devsite1.dev
   DocumentRoot c:/wamp/www/devsite1
 

 
   ServerName devsite2.dev
   DocumentRoot c:/wamp/www/devsite2
 

 
   ServerName devsite3.dev
   DocumentRoot c:/wamp/www/devsite3

Step 4: Update your hosts file (Windows)

Your hosts file is most likely located here: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc

Open it in your text editor, and find this line:

 127.0.0.1       localhost

On the next line, add your dev sites:

 127.0.0.1    devsite1.dev
 127.0.0.1    devsite2.dev
 127.0.0.1    devsite3.dev

That should do it!

links for 2008-02-18

corey brown — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:28:56 +0000

Hot Image Your PC’s Hard Drive with DriveImage XML (Windows)

(tags: backup apps Windows)
Style-Force Semplice™ Pixelfonts

(tags: pixelfonts fonts)

links for 2008-02-14

corey brown — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:28:05 +0000

Free Fonts Of The Month: Advent Pro, Telegrafico | Fonts | Smashing Magazine

(tags: fonts webdesign design free)

links for 2008-02-06

corey brown — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:33:55 +0000

OpenAjax Hub Specification v10 - MemberWiki

(tags: ajax javascript)
htmlPlayground: learn and test HTML and CSS - Download Squad

(tags: html css learning testing)