stuff on web development

the next web standards

Monday, 17 December 2007 11:16 am by noel
posted in web development

under development are html 5 and xhtml v2. html 5 is being pushed by browser vendors (do we actually call them browser vendors when most of them don’t even sell their browsers?) and xhtml v2 is being supported by w3c. these two are not official recommendations yet but it looks like they lead into the [...]

microsoft fonts on ubuntu

Sunday, 7 October 2007 5:12 pm by noel
posted in linux, software, web development

i, being part web dev, had to make sure that the fonts i used are “standard” web fonts. in the name interoperability, microsoft released its true type core fonts years ago. its was a free download and, in a way, successful in its intended purpose — a large number of websites use it because of [...]

php development tools

Tuesday, 21 August 2007 10:08 am by noel
posted in eclipse, software, web development

the eclipse foundation will be officially coming out with its php development tools (pdt) for the eclipse platform by september 2007. as of this writing its still in the incubation phase.
The PDT project is working towards providing a PHP Development Tools framework for the Eclipse platform. This project will encompass all development components [...]

dev server: installing php

Monday, 4 December 2006 3:08 pm by noel
posted in eclipse, internet, software, web development

after installing and testing apache, its time to install php. this time its a bit messy because i’m going for the manual install rather than the windows installer. in otherwords, don’t expect pictures.
note: the following instructions are for running php 4.4.4 with apache 1.3.37 on win32 only. other packages combinations will have a different set [...]

dev server: post-install apache setup

Tuesday, 28 November 2006 1:44 pm by noel
posted in internet, software, web development

now that apache is up and running, i want to set up its working environment. the target is not to have internet access to the server since its for development purposes only; to set the server so that it does not start up automatically when i turn on my workstation; and to put an “on/off [...]