Nov/090
Blue Screen During XP Install and Vista Removal (Dell Inspiron)
This is a guide for anyone who’s experiencing a blue screen problem that occurs when trying to install Windows XP on a PC purchased relatively recently, or might be getting hard drive errors while installing.
You can fix this error by going into your BIOS settings and changing the SATA mode from AHCI to ATA.
Be sure to then save your BIOS settings, and restart the computer. This should resolve the blue screen.
Nov/090
How to Install PHPMyAdmin on Linux (Slackware)
First, make sure you have Apache or some other web server installed and configured correctly. You should also check to make sure you’ve installed PHP and enabled it from within your web server
Google for PHPMyAdmin, it should be the top search result.
You’re probably best off grabbing the .tar.gz if you’d like to follow along with this tutorial.
After the download is complete, we’ll need to do the following:
- Open a shell
- Move the downloaded tarball to your web server’s document root
- Untar the tarball
There’s no installation required other than untarring. You should be able to access PHPMyAdmin from your browser. Just make sure that your url matches the folder name of your extracted PHPMyAdmin application folder.
Please post any comments– if you need help, I’d be glad to get back to you!
Nov/090
PHP vs Java/J2EE
So most of my web applications development experience this far has been with Java and the J2EE technologies. I know a great deal more about Java than I do PHP, but I’m just starting to delve into PHP and from what I’ve seen so far, it holds its own when compared with Java.
As far as being a platform to develop enterprise class applications in a professional, modular, scalable fashion, Java takes the cake all day in my opinion. It has countless frameworks, an enormous community, and a powerful, portable language behind it– the best language if I might say so myself: Java.
The biggest, and probably only, problem that I have with Java applications is the lack of affordable web hosting available. From what I’ve read, hosting Java web applications tends to be expensive because of the need to have a JVM running, opposed to just a shared web server or whatever. This is why I started looking into PHP.
At first glance, PHP was just a hacker-esque, outdated scripting language… and maybe it is all by itself. The power comes with it’s frameworks. I’ve started looking into cakePHP, a rapid-development PHP framework. So far, it looks really promising. I’ll try to get some tutorials posted up here once I get into some coding.
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