These instructions will install the ImageMagick binaries as well as the PHP extension for the default OSX Apache/PHP setup. If you prefer not to use MacPorts there are binaries available, however you may have to deal with some dependencies and configuration on your own. 1. Install ImageMagick sudo port install ImageMagick 2. Install imagic module [...]
Installing LAMP Stack on OSX 10.7 Lion
This is a follow-up to my previous article on installing a LAMP Stack on Snow Leopard and explains the steps that you need to get Lion up and running for LAMP development. (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP in case you don’t already know). Lion comes pre-installed with Apache and PHP 5.3.6 so you only need [...]
Working with dates in Flex AIR and SQLite
UPDATE 3/25/09: Paul Robertson from the AIR team stopped by and writes that declaring your SQLite column affinity (ie column type) as “DATE” will instruct AIR to handle all date conversions for you automatically. The problems I experienced mainly surfaced in a DataGrid when using a DateField and I have not had a chance to [...]
PHP on Windows 2003 IIS 6 Displays 404 Page Not Found
After Installing PHP 5 using the Windows installer on Windows 2003 you may find that IIS displays a “Page Not Found” 404 error for every .php page. This is a perplexing error because is it not actually a real 404 error. The file is really there, but IIS is unable to process it based on [...]
web.config error "Unrecognized attribute 'type'" for .NET 2.0
This applies to Windows Server 2003. This error can occur when you have .NET 1.0 and .NET 2.0 applications running on the same server. This particular error can occur when you haven’t selected .NET 2.0. in the application settings. Windows 2003 Uses Application Pools which can only support one version of the .NET framework at [...]