setting up CakePHP with XAMPP

I’m mostly writing this posting as a way to document a few steps which I always forget to do when I set up a new CakePHP site locally on my Mac.

I’m using XAMPP to run my Apache, MySQL, and PHP installation.

For the most part the standard CakePHP installation works flawlessly. So if you have a site titled ‘mydomain’ running on localhost in XAMPP, and if XAMPP is running, you will be able to access it

Posted at 3pm on 04/28/08 | 1 comment | Filed Under: uncategorized read on

twitter your marketing

Is twitter a viable marketing tool? At first, around 6 months or so ago when I first ran across twitter, I thought it was simply a voyeuristic and potentially time slipping way to procrastinate from what I needed to do. Now I know it is, but it is also a lot more.

After my first logon I didn’t come back to twitter for a good 3 or 4 months. Now I’m logging on

Posted at 8pm on 04/13/08 | no comments | Filed Under: internet marketing, social media, twitter read on

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