I recently bought a new laptop as my new development box. A nice 17″ screen with 1920*1200. So now I was to setup a PHP development environment for all the projects I’m working on. I downloaded Apache 2.2.6, PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5.0.45. I compiled and installed them and finally added a few virtual hosts. [...]
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Recently I experimented a bit with an Apache log file analyzer written in PHP. It’s not all that difficult were it not for trying to parse the browser, or user agent, string. There are in fact two RFC documents, RFC 1945 and RFC 2068, that define how a user agent string should be written. Still [...]
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Recently the Google Web Accelerator (GWA)has received a lot of attention from web application developers. Rightly so. When installing GWA for use in your browser it speeds up surfing by prefetching pages. This can be very useful but also extremely dangerous as it has very bad side effects on many (badly designed) web applications. Why? [...]
Awstats is a very good weblog analyzer. It produce loads of statistics about your visitors and their behaviour. The first time it can be a bit tricky to setup if you have many virtual hosts. However good the application is, the documentation is a classical example of when programmers write the manual. They understand everything [...]
Yesterday I decided it was time to get a proper PHP 4 environment configured on my new machine running the x86 version of Solaris 9. I know going outside Windows or Linux with PHP sometimes can be tricky. I haven’t used PHP on Solaris since my time at AOL in Dublin three years ago, so I decided to write down exactly [...]
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