I have been playing with Apache, PHP, MySQL & Surgemail on of all machines my Macmini. I was still having issues with the new linux box so I messed around with these programs on the mac. Man most of it was easier than the linux setup, but it was still hard. I found several prebuilt install packages for most of the programs I was playing with.
I learned a few valuable lessons today. First never install anything you don’t know how to uninstall. Doing technology for as long as I have, I should know that by now, but I guess not! Second, I need a setup for testing and messing around and a separate environment where I keep working things like my current website, email, etc.
Right now I actually have my website running on my mini. I don’t want to keep it there, but for now until I sort out my linux issues it will remain. Tomorrow I am going to do mothers day stuff so I probably wont have time to mess with this stuff. Hopefully I will get to some more during the week.
Ok, the post title threw me for a loop. I was just about ready to hang up my linker and compiler, then I realized, you weren’t really getting into development….
BTW: What up dawg, still waiting on the steaks you promised me…
Thanks for the vote of confidence Gus. No I am not developing. Nor am I going to host anything on my Mac just yet. I was just playing around with what I can do. If anything I am more determined to get my linux box working now that I saw what I can do with the same apps on my mini.