Kylie is my niece. Check out the talent!!! :)

When I was writing this article I ran into this awesome video…

I was asked recently if there was a way to extract the audio from a YouTube video to an mp3 on a Mac. This is an explanation of how I ripped the attached mp3 from this video…

Clean Urls did not work out of the box for me when I installed Drupal on a fresh install of Debian. These are the easy steps for setting them up.

Enable mod_rewrite:
You need to enable the rewrite module so Apache can do the rewrite. On Debian you can issue the following command to do this.

$ a2enmod rewrite

Note: If you are on a different Linux operating system you can basically do the same thing with the following code (the path might be slightly different).

Git is the new cool kid in town when it comes to source code management. I wanted to install Git on my Mac, but I had heard installing it could be a bit of a pain. I did a bunch of research before I tried an install and it seemed Macports would be the easiest way to get it working.

I have spent a stupid amount of time trying to get MySQL installed/configured/working on my Mac. Since I am coming from Ubuntu, I am used to being able to install an entire LAMPs stack with this one command:

$ sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-xsl php5-gd php-pear libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql

Apparently on a Mac this is a complete PITA.

After spending hours installing and uninstalling MySQL with the final result being the dreaded error:

If you are trying to do this you will need Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac (~$79.99 USD). This software allows you to run Windows and Linux on your Mac so you have access to all three operating systems without rebooting. I think this will be an ideal web developing environment, but that is another article all together…

Firefox Mouse Gestures Plugin: Click and drag a mouse button to navigate web pages.

Go to the link above and click on the “Install Now” button in the middle of the page. It will install the plugin, and when it tells you to restart, go ahead, your session will be saved on restart.

If you use Windows or Linux, this is as far as you need to go.

On a Mac, do this to make it work: Tools Menu -> Add-ons -> (In the new window) Mouse Gestures -> Preferences

I have been trying to sit down to write this article for a while, but I never seem to have the time. I had put together some links while researching that were pretty good, so I figured I would publish them anyway so interested people would have somewhere to start from.

Amazon.com, while building a book selling machine, has put together a pretty extensive set of cloud computing services. This article is meant to give you a brief overview of a few of their services and give you a starting point if you are interested in researching this technology.