Well this post is more so just to reinforce my previous blog post concerning IE6.  Here we have a picture that a friend sent me.  He was reassured that no planes had crashed that day; but Internet Explorer 6 sure did!  Good thing Microsoft is not developing planes…..er, wait…Is some of the flight instruments built on MS products?

 It has now been just a tad over 7 years now that this horrid little piece of software was released for the public to struggle through, especially us developers.  It’s time to put our foot down and stop this madness!  Join Us Here 

The Font Conference

Not the funniest thing on the planet, but still worth watching. True entertainment for geeks!!. If you start counting from zero because you are like me and consider “0″ a value then you will enjoy this video.

Today I installed the latest version of the Mozilla Firefox browser.  To no surprise it works great!  Unlike Internet Explorer Firefox has passed the Acid2 Test and released yet another great browser to the world.  As a web designer and developer you tend to get nervous when releases like these happen.  You tend to find out that apps you have programmed or sites that you have created in the past are no longer work properly and need some tweaking in order to comply with newer versions.  I checked on a few things I had built for clients in the past to ensure things were okay.  So far, so good.  If this was IE coming out with a newer version (aka patch) most assuredly things would be broken.  So all in all I want to say that FireFox has done a job well done.  So if you have not done so already go get the latest from Mozilla.  And if you are not running Firefox and still have IE 6, or even worse 7 as your default browser then it’s time to put some more banana peels and Coors beer cans in your time machine and catch up to the rest of us.

I have been battling trying to set up MySQL and phpMyAdmin on my Mac for days now. But to no avail I was failing miserably. Well after days of Google searches and endless forum help, I finely was able to make it all come together. If you are having this same problem, I hope the following steps will help.

First off, we need to stop all the servers. I used a command prompt to stop the MySQL server due to the fact that stopping it via the Pref. panel does NOT work. MySQL is well aware of this.

Open your command terminal and type the following:

sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mysql.mysqld.plist

Type in your password when prompted.

Now open your Preferences and stop the web sharing which will stop your apache webserver.
Now go to:
/usr/local/mysql/var/mysql
You should see 3 files called:
-user.frm
-user.MYD
-user.MYI
You are going to want to delete these files and then replace them with mine here:
user.frm
user.MYD
user.MYI

Now start your webserver back up.
Restart your MySQL server backup via this command prompt:

sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mysql.mysqld.plist

enter your password if prompted again.

Tada!! Done! You will now be able to access your Database. I use a great app called Navigate to create tables, DBs…etc. Get it Here

Now for phpMyAdmin. You will probably still have socket/config problem if you try to log into your phpMyAdmin.
We are going to do all of this via the command Terminal. So do the following:

$ sudo mkdir /var/mysql/

$ sudo ln /tmp/mysql.sock /var/mysql/mysql.sock

$ sudo apachectl graceful

/usr/sbin/apachectl graceful: httpd gracefully restarted

That’s it!! You should be ready to roll. Keep in mind you will still need tp setup passwords in your phpMyAdmin. Currently your DB’s are not protected from the world.

A coworker sent me this image of the “MacBook Nano.” Now, as I would like to keep this where it belongs (in the rumor mill) I still find it very cool. It’s inevitable that Apple will produce something like seeing that the iPhone and new iTouch iPods are in full force. It only make sense for Apple to take their patented Multi Touch to the next level. Hold on to your seats my fellow Apple (aka Mac Cult) members.

If you are using MySQL on your Mac with OS X 10.5  then you by now know that there is no real way to start and stop the MySQL services without manually doing it via a command prompt through the terminal. The current system preference for the OS X 10.5 does not work properly (MySQL is aware of this bug). Well, I was doing a little searching on the web and ran across a patch. Grab it here! While you’re at it make sure you are running the latest realease from MySQL.

I recently just finished a site for a client whom I thought would be a perfect candidate for the newest release of the “LightBox” image viewer. While the original version is great for viewing images individually on the page, Lightbox 2.0 supports a new “grouping” feature that lets you group related images on the page for easy browsing amongst them. Click Here to Demo.

To download the LightBox js files click here and refer to the index file inside for installation instructions.