September 22, 2006
PHP Dive
Posted by nitestrike in : Dev , add a comment
This week I have been busing myself with learning PHP. I downloaded Apache Web Server, PHP, and MSQL Data Base applications. I installed all three on my test machine, which is actually a VMWare instance.
The installations appeared to go smoothly, but found that the Apache server was not able to start after setting up PHP for Apache. Did not like that the PHP5 DLL was invalid, it now appears that it is a known issue. I was able to Google the error and found a little write up explaining to use the latest dev build of PHP5. And what do you know the Apache was able to start up and access the test PHP file I had created.
I’ve played with variables and displaying them. Read through most of the information at W3 Schools on PHP. Going to play around with what I’ve read and hopefully get the PHP to connect, read, and write data to MQL.
Welcome to my world, the weird, the wild, and the geekiness. OK not so much the wild. 
Resources:
PHP Wiki
W3 Schools - PHP
September 12, 2006
Can Vista cause some one to go MIA?
Posted by nitestrike in : Uncategorized, Blogging , add a comment
Well I can say I am liking what I have seen so far with Windows Vista, RC1. I had been running Beta 2 in VM since it became available via the CPP (Customer Preview Program). For those of you who signed up for Vista Beta 2 in June for the CPP you should have received an e-mail allowing to download Vista RC1. For those who did not sign-up or get to sign-up they will be opening up to new participants in the next couple of weeks.
Now for for the rest of the story. I down loaded Vista RC1 last Thursday and have rebuilt my laptop with it as the my main OS. The last couple of days I have finally been able to get my laptop to some semblance of order and to a point of being able to use it as my primary machine. So between work, family, and computer building my time has been totally consumed, sleep being a bit lacking initially. So that is where I had disappeared off to, and contrary to popular belief I had not taken holiday to Pluto.