Folders

Posted: September 11th, 2007 | Author: Foamcow | Filed under: Vintage | | Comments Off

Do you need folders for a client presentation? Try Designease. They produce great custom polypropylene folders and are extremely helpful in the design process.

Gloucester Floods. Water Bowser Locations

Posted: July 23rd, 2007 | Author: Foamcow | Filed under: Vintage | | Comments Off

I created a Google map to mark where the water bowsers are sighted.

Please add any that you know of

Gloucester Water Bowser Locations

Enabling htaccess under OSX Server 10.3

Posted: May 24th, 2007 | Author: Foamcow | Filed under: Vintage | Tags: apache, osx, server, web development | Comments Off

I use an Xserve as a testing/development server in house and it’s set up with a few virtual servers that I configured through the Admin Server tool under OSX Server. However a few of these dev sites require .htaccess files to handle some URL rewriting etc. I had problems getting .htaccess to work.

Searching online yielded some clues but my /etc/httpd/httpd.conf file looked different to all the examples I found.

I’m only slightly familiar with Apache config files too so it was a little confusing.

I discovered that the config was split up. Instead of editing /etc/httpd/httpd.conf I had to do the following:

1. Using the OSX Server Admin interface I disabled the module mod_auth_apple and instead enabled mod_auth using the following pathnames:
   • /usr/libexec/httpd/mod_auth.so
   • mod_auth.c

   You can possibly do this in the config file, but I chose the Server Admin tool to stay safe.

2. The docs say to edit /etc/httpd/httpd.conf but I couldn’t find the right bits in there. Instead I found them in /etc/httpd/sites/0000_any_80_.conf and changed AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All.
3. Then I edited the conf file for the virtual server I was using, in this case it was called 0005_any_80_cms.dev.conf. Once again I set AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All.

I’ve no idea at the moment if this is the right way to do it all, but it does seem to work. I’ll post more should I find any problems or the ‘proper’ way to do it.

Warning: Don’t try this unless you know what you are doing. I’ve noticed a few problems already so at the very least BACKUP ALL YOUR FILES FIRST!

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Joost

Posted: April 26th, 2007 | Author: Foamcow | Filed under: Vintage | | Comments Off

Following on from my previous request for someone to give me an invite to Joost. A kind soul named Vragabond came up trumps. Many thanks mate!

I can also add that Joost is a great service! Even though it’s in beta it seems to work a treat.

After watching an entire movie streamed full screen with only a couple of glitches I can safely say that Joost looks like being a big, big success!

Web design survey

Posted: April 24th, 2007 | Author: Foamcow | Filed under: Vintage | | Comments Off

People who make websites have been at it for more than a dozen years, yet almost nothing is known, statistically, about our profession. Let’s do something to change that. Presenting A List Apart’s first annual Web Design Survey.