Multiple Applications, One Code Base

With room to grow once again, I’ve been working on the other features I planned for W3Counter back in the fall. The main task, which I hope will allow me to sell to bigger customers than my normal $5/month individual webmaster, is providing private instances of the entire service. The plan is to have three [...]

Multiple local websites with Apache in Windows

August 25 8 Comments Category: Development, Projects

Recently I’ve been working on 3 or 4 projects at the same time on my desktop. While my primary IDE has changed to Visual Studio (even for PHP with VS.PHP), the rest of my development environment is mostly the same as it’s been since December. My projects are growing in code size, and the amount [...]

Microsoft is a good thing

April 11 8 Comments Category: Personal

It’s been a week since I started working for Microsoft. So far, so good. The best part of this internship so far is the location. Washington is like one huge suburb. No matter how far I drive in any direction it’s the same — beautiful homes spaced out among plenty of grass and trees, people [...]

If You Can See This…

March 17 4 Comments Category: Projects

It means the DNS change for this domain has propogated to your ISP. The move of all my sites from two servers at NAC and one at LayeredTech to two brand-new servers at SoftLayer is under way. As is the process of putting all 40+ websites under version control at a third location. Read on [...]

PHP Development Environment

December 20 8 Comments Category: Development

There have been four phases to the evolution of my PHP development environment. First, I used notepad, FTP and a shared hosting account. WS_FTP to be exact, made by IPSwitch which once sent me a free t-shirt for sending in a testimonial for their website. Once I took on a job working on a PHP [...]