I generally do my development work on a local windows machine with the latest version of Xampp installed. I was recently toying around with the tayst twitter feed, and was having trouble using curl with xampp. The problem?.. curl was not enabled by default in Xampp.  You receive the following error: Fatal error: Call to [...]

I ran into an interesting problem the other day.    I’m a big fan of the WordPress Plugin Contact Form 7.  I’ve used it on many of the wordpress sites I’ve developed, and appreciate the plugin for its simple integration, nice admin interface, and the pretty ajax functionality. Unfortunately, I recently discovered that the plugin [...]

Wow… so I wrote a post on my struggles getting Rails to work on my Windows Machine, and then I figured it out. I’ve been developing in various languages, and using Xampp to for my server, database, and programming language (Apache, MySQL, PHP). Nevertheless, I have finally got it working, and it was a lot [...]

This post follows a 14 hour struggle to get Rails going on my Windoze Vista and my Windoze XP machine. I’ve been doing PHP development for a little while now, and have been using Xampp on both of my machines to create a local server for web-development. Recently we made a decision to build one [...]