Julien Pacaud – Check it OUT!

His work is so awesome. Surreal, mysterious, urgent and compelling.

Check it out: Julien Pacaud

Foxserv Is Pretty Cool

Well, I managed to get the development environment installed on my windows box at home. It was much easier than the last manual install I did, thanks to foxserv. The installer package they put together works pretty neat. As far as I can tell, it all runs without touching the windows registry whatsoever. There’s a handy little GUI with buttons to launch Apache, to view PHP.ini, httpd.config, and a button to launch a nifty little mySQL front end that I haven’t seen before. I actually dig this installation. I had to go in and comment a few things in the httpd.config file that referred to expansions that I am not using or planning on using. I had to also change the root directory to the folder I created, and update the apache root directory. Simple as that, and I have a fully functional Apache server running PHP and MySQL on my home machine. That will save on bandwidth undoubtedly, as I muck and muddle my way through my first PHP project – I anticipate a fairly large amount of trial and error going on, so I might as well do it on my own computer rather than ftp over and over and over again as I trundle along.

Any beginners out there who just want to get started with PHP and MYSQL should check out foxserv. It’s a good package for windows (hadn’t bothered to check if it’s available for mac), and it’s a pretty user friendly way to set up a server side development environment on your home computer.

Neato Web Gadget

My friend Bruce has built a neato web gadget called “MyPicShares.” It can be found here… MyPicShares

No longer must we suffer through uploading an image to photobucket or tinypic just to hotlink it and share it. This lightweight, portable web utility has already proven it’s usefulness to me many times over.

If you want to read the author’s thoughts about it, visit The Pykyl Blog.

I hear rumor that there are additional utilities on their way including a possible “mySongShares.” Keep your fingers crossed.