Monthly Archives: January 2009

Building a working web service in 24 hours – straight

By Erik Starck | Published: January 23, 2009
Happy business campers! It’s the middle of the night and I’m in a big hallroom full of people all of them hacking on their computers. The event is called 24 hours Business Camp and the goal is to bring 90 entrepreneurial people together and have them build a service in 24 hours. There are 52 [...]
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Copying a VirtualBox VDI file running Ubuntu Server and getting Drupal running

By Erik Starck | Published: January 19, 2009
Sigh. Things are never as easy as you want them to be. I have two computers on my desk. My MacBook and my Asus EEE B202 running Windows XP. I wanted a development environment for Drupal (a php content management framework), so I tried running PHP on my MacBook. It worked fine, but the first [...]
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Setting up PHP and web server on OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

By Erik Starck | Published: January 18, 2009
Your shiny Mac comes preinstalled with a web server and php but you need to set it up to get going. Starting the web server is as easy as enabling “Web Sharing” under networks settings. I did this but the server did not respond at http://localhost. So, what was wrong? Well, I recently upgraded my [...]
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