Something Cool Will Be Released Tomorrow (maybe)

Posted in Development on May 3rd, 2010 | 4 comments

So I’m 75% done with a pretty cool little script that I want to give out here. It really is just something that will help increase your efficiency (hopefully), and is nothing more than a wrapper around some API functions. But it works well and as far as I know, doesn’t exist yet. Should hopefully you cut a few minutes of time out of your normal day.

The script is designed for anyone that has a lot of different SEO sites and is constantly checking their traffic. It is also built around Google Analytics so that is definitely a pre-requisite for use. I need to finish up a few functions and then style it up a bit to make it nice and clean, but as soon as that is done, I’ll post it up here along with some installation instructions (it’s basic, no worries).

Til then, peace,

D

Setting Up Ubuntu 10.04 For Local Web Development With LAMP, PHPMyAdmin, and Local Domains

Posted in Development on May 2nd, 2010 | 3 comments

So back on Friday, I opted to upgrade to the new 10.04 from 9.10 of Ubuntu. And of course, it froze midway through and I had to reinstall my OS. Thankfully I had a live cd laying around, because I popped that in and backed up my /home folder to an external drive I had. Then I proceeded to install 10.04 from scratch. Everything was good after that.

Of course, that means it nuked my Ruby install as well as my local dev environment. I really should have scripts written to automatically do all this crap when I need to, but since it’s only every few months, I don’t care that much. I also don’t care enough to remember all of these commands, so I just have a bookmarked list of guides that I follow when I need to.

So without further adieu, here’s what I just did to install a LAMP server, PHPMyAdmin, and configure local domains, to make local development easy as pie.

Installing LAMP

So Ubuntu makes this really fucking easy to do. All you need to do is open up a terminal and type the command:

and then select LAMP and follow the prompts. You can read a more through guide here (more…)