Programming
Scott’s Bots – Back to custom code.
I enjoy WordPress for ScottPreston.Com, but for Scott’s Bots.Com, I’ve decided to go with my own custom version of the web site.
The reason is that I wanted to do too many things with the site and was forced to look for so many so-so plug-ins. So rather than do that I just coded what I [...]
Programmer Productivity
What makes a programmer productive?
There are lots of ideas about this and I have a few of my own. I have read some interesting articles and books on Pareto’s Law (The 80/20 Rule) and am finding that most productivity comes from just a few things.
3 Most Effective
The Language – The language you choose to do [...]
Windows, Apache, PHP, MySQL and libmysql.dll
It seems like everytime I install a WAMP (Windows, Apache, PHP, MySQL) environment and I install php via the .zip file, I run into the same problems viewing PHPMyAdmin because it say's “Cannot load mysql extension.” So I did this to help me remember and hopefully help you out.
Configure php.ini
add this to httpd.conf “PHPIniDir “C:/php/php.ini””
un-comment [...]
Eclipse PermGen Space Out Of Memory Errors
I thought I would make a quick post on this as it's been plauging me for some time. To fix this problem I opened my eclipse.ini and pasted the following:
-vm
%JAVA_HOME%\jre\bin\javaw.exe
I also made some adjustments to the VMARGS.
-vmargs-Xms512m-Xmx1024m-XX:MaxPermSize=128m
Update (12/21/2009)
The launcher in Eclipse is rather tricky. You need to make sure your .exe is named eclipse.exe. You [...]