Paulo Elias pauloelias

#You should do all your LAMP development in a Virtual Machine

##Here's Why:

Many of us develop on Macintoshes. There are many reasons for this, but one of them is that it's based on a Unix platform of some sort. This allows us to run common server software such as Apache, Ruby, Python and Nodejs on our Macs.

Our computers become powerful develoment machines similar to the servers our apps will eventually live on.

Sometime we start our computer only to find Apache won't start, or MySQL can't create a PID file, or we've updated to Mountain Lion and Apache needs to be reconfigured. Death!

Mac web developer apps

This gist's comment stream is a collection of webdev apps for OS X. Feel free to add links to apps you like, just make sure you add some context to what it does — either from the creator's website or your own thoughts.

— Erik

ExpressionEngine .htaccess/Apache conf

Please use these at your own risk. I cannot be responsible for having no idea what I am doing and breaking your server.

This is a collection of Apache configuration settings that I use in my ExpressionEngine projects. Since I have always been a big fan of the HTML5 Boilerplate I took inspiration from their .htaccess file and tweaked my configuration with other settings I have used over the years.

This gist contains:

_EXTENDED.htaccess This is a general .htaccess file I rename and edit as needed for each site. Note: When I host a site on my prad/stage/dev servers I move most or all of these rules into the vhost.conf file
_SAMPLE.httpd.conf I use Ubuntu on my development, staging, and production servers so this is specific to Apache 2 on my setup. Essentially this file extends the apache2.conf (in my setup).

One of my favorite past times is to look at the notebooks of famous scientists. Da Vinci's notebook is well known, but there plenty others. Worshipping Da Vinci like no other, I bought a Think/Create/Record journal, used it mostly to keep jot down random thoughts and take notes. This was great in the beginning, but the conformity of lines drove me nuts. Only moleskines made blank notebooks, so I had to buy one.

At the same time I started a freelance project. The project itself is irrelevant, but suffice to say it was very complex and spanned several months. It seemed like a perfect opportunity to use the moleskine. Looking back, all my entries fell under few categories:

Todo
Question
Thought
Bug
Feature

	// We all know how to use mixins, right?

	@mixin kung {
	background: green;
	color: yellow;
	}

	@mixin foo {
	background: orange;
	color: red;

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html lang="en">
	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">

	<title></title>
	<meta name="description" content="">
	<meta name="author" content="">

	# Standard .htaccess file

	# Secure .htaccess file
	<Files .htaccess>
	order allow,deny
	deny from all
	</Files>

	# Don't show any directory without an index file
	Options -Indexes

	// Add this to your module tag

	if($no_results_prefix = $this->EE->TMPL->fetch_param('no_results_prefix'))
	{
	if(preg_match('/\\'.LD.'if '.$no_results_prefix.'no_results\\'.RD.'.*\\'.LD.'\\/if\\'.RD.'/us', $this->EE->TMPL->tagdata, $matches))
	{
	$this->EE->TMPL->no_results = $this->EE->TMPL->parse_variables_row($matches[0], array(
	$no_results_prefix.'no_results' => 1
	));
	}

	// this used to work:

	function login_temporary_user()
	{
	if( $this->EE->session->userdata['member_id'] == 0)
	{
	$this->EE->session->create_new_session(1, TRUE);
	$this->EE->session->userdata['group_id'] = 1;
	}
	}

	<?php if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

	$plugin_info = array(
	'pi_name' => 'Test_plugin',
	'pi_version' => '1.0',
	'pi_author' => 'GDmac',
	'pi_author_url' => '',
	'pi_description' => 'Testing stuff',
	'pi_usage' => Test_plugin::usage()
	);