Compiling a PHP Memcache extension with MAMP 2.0.3
After wasting quite a few hours today, finally stumbling across this post solved my annoying issue with getting the memcache PHP extension up and running on my MAMP PRO localhost. I had to share it!
Follow the Lullabot article and then finally replace the memcache.so PHP extension with the updated version from steindom.com.
http://www.lullabot.com/articles/setup-memcached-mamp-sandbox-environment
Also be warned the path for the php.ini in Mamp Pro is inside the Applications content wrapper. Very annoying!
/Applications/MAMP PRO 1.9.6.1/MAMP PRO.app/Contents/Resources
LESS syntax highlighting in Espresso - Luke Jones est. MCMXC
Useful trick for telling Espresso to parse LESS files as CSS.
Instructions are great, but just a little note that this change will be overwritten when the application is updated.
If you copy the CSS.sugar file to /Library/Application Support/Espresso/Sugars/CSS.sugar and make the relevant modifications, your less support will stick around between updates :)
Re: responsive design. You know we’ll end up developing on mobiles for big screens.
Frontend Development Bristol Skillswap
Just looking through the attendance list for the Bristol SkillSwap - there’s some top bristol bods going!
Starting to panic about a) what to talk about and b) if it’s going to be any good ;)
We’ll be talking all about the HTMLs, Javascripts and CSSes. Progressive enhancement, performance, typography, responsive design and show-jumping unicorns.
Fontdeck Blog: Using OpenType font features with CSS 3: Part 1
The vast majority of fonts contain lowercase and uppercase alphabets, numerals, punctuation and accents. But there can be much more to fonts than this basic set of characters. Many professionally-designed fonts also contain ligatures, alternative characters, smallcaps, different kinds of numbers,…
Block websites from your google search results
If you have a Google account you can permanently filter w3schools out of your search results by visting http://www.google.com/reviews/t and blocking w3schools.com (leaving out “www” in order to cover all its subdomains). This can be undone at any time by revisiting the same page. Google reportedly analyses the blocking statstics from this extension and may act upon it if they see a pattern forming. (If you are using Google’s Chrome browser, you can achieve the same effect by installing the official Personal Blocklist extension).
Just stubbled on this very useful tip for ignoring certain sites from your search results.
Bye w3schools!
How to upgrade Apache ANT to 1.8.2 on OSX using homebrew
After rebuilding my mac and losing all those useful bits you install over the years, I was tasked with upgrading my version Apache Ant from 1.7.1 to 1.8.2. We now use the excellent HTML5 Boilerplate build script for all our production releases at Coull, so I could no longer ignore the problem. You’re going to have to crank open the Terminal window and get bashing. Don’t panic!
To see what version you currently have installed run this:
$ ant -version Apache Ant version 1.7.1 compiled on February 11 2010
/usr/local/Cellar/ant/1.8.2
$ whereis ant /usr/bin/ant //returned message
$ sudo rm /usr/share/ant Password: ************ $ ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/ant/1.8.2 ant
$ ant -version Apache Ant(TM) version 1.8.2 compiled on December 20 2010
