Will Stevens's blog

This is how I got Django and Satchmo set up on my Debian Etch box with Apache2, MySQL, mod_python and Memcached.

The machine I started with had Debian Etch installed as well as Apache2 and MySQL.

If you are reading this it is because you already know that you want a Rails setup on a Debian server with NginX in front of a Mongrel Cluster.

These are the steps I used to completely set up my server...

As a web developer I need simple ways to manipulate images easily so I can get them online without wasting large amounts of time. Resizing huge digital images to a reasonable web size was always difficult until I found this.

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This makes it a snap to resize a large number of images without having to install any additional software...

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

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.

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...