Christmas / New Years. A bit late!

Happy New Year everyone. Good 2009 greetings. A bit late I know!

Not much news to be honest, on anything that I usually write about at least. Not much going on with the Mini lately, lack of funds after Xmas, plus MOT & Insurance to pay for on my Nissan 200s this month!

On the plus side, a brake upgrade was due on my 200sx and I’ve opted for the superb (I hope) big brake upgrade from DB-Power. I went for the 345mm Brembo front disks (vented and grooved), although I’ve been told they are so popular they’re currently out of stock, and since my MOT is rapidly approaching, I instead went for the slightly smaller 330mm Brembo’s. On that note then, good stopping power on both my cars – always a bonus!

And a final note to tell the world about Grab A Mascot – the latest project to come out of work and the 3rd project entirely by me from the company. I’m really pleased with it and I’ve taken just about 3 weeks of development time to complete it, from scratch. Its based on Zend Framework with a little touch of jQuery. Check it out!

That is all for now – possible photos of my new Brembo stoppers soon…

MAMP vs XAMPP – Apache, PHP, MySQL for OS X

Whey, work has bought me one of these! Good times

However, I do have the task of setting up a LAMP environment on it whilst also continuing to do the days work which is more than plenty already, meaning I’m probably waking up at about 4.30am…

So, the question is – MAMP or XAMPP? Both are pre-built apps that should work-out-of-the-box in order to get an Apache, PHP, MySQL environment in place, but which is best? I’ve got a very much-so modified MAMP installed on my Macbook which works fine, but it has been hacked about a lot and I do remember staying up late a few nights trying to get the damn thing to work correctly!

From the install, I’m going to need PhpMyAdmin, .htaccess support, GD Image Library, Image Magik at the very least, to name a few.

Looking at the features, MAMP offers everything I need, so that’s my first choice, but then again XAMPP offers a similar section… We’ll see how it goes with MAMP first. Keep an eye on my Twitter updates throughout the day too! .

Still at work – another late night for the Web Developers…

I’m still at work, its 9.53pm – Been here since 8am. Not bad, eh? And I’m sat with 2 other Web Developers and 2 other marketing people. This is how we roll!…

On a semi-unrelated note, check out my averagely updated Twitter feed (I’m still a bit new to the whole thing, but is looking cool) twitter.com/dazecoop

Long day at work

Just finishing up on my, almost, 13 hour long day at work.
Word up!

Red Bull, Burger King and OS X included!…