Last month,I did a clean install of Ubuntu Feisty Fawn on my home computer removing the "dapper drake". But it is only now, I got a chance to sit down and install all necessary packages to set up my development server again.

With Dapper Drake, I had to use alien to convert MySQL5 rpm to .deb, because there was no version 5 in the repositories. Anyway, Feisty has all newest versions of software.

This is what I did for setting up my development server:

MySQL Administrator: It is a Graphical User Interface for administrating MySQL: sudo apt-get install mysql-admin

MySQL Query Browser is a GUI for managing databases: sudo apt-get install mysql-query-browser

Apache: sudo apt-get install apache2

Apache Manual: sudo apt-get install apache2-doc

PHP: sudo apt-get install php5

PHP module for Apache: sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5

Enabling public_html directories for users

Well, I am the only user in my computer. But I can create and edit files without running sudo if I have a public_html directory at my home. sudo a2enmod userdir. I then restarted Apache and created a 'public_html' directory in my home. Now I can access it with http://localhost/~username/.

Enable mod_rewrite

1. sudo a2enmod rewrite.
2. Edit Apache configuration: sudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default
3. Change line 12: “AllowOverride none” to “AllowOverride all”
4. save and close
5. Restart Apache

(Thanks to mod_rewrite for Apache2 in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04)

How to restart Apache?

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload.

Todo:

1. Install IEs4Linux.
2. Install Opera.
3. Install Komodo Edit.
4. Install gftp.

(Via Clement Pananchikal)

Related Links:

• Helvetica: The movie
• Distinguishing Helvetica from Arial
• Wikipedia: Helvetica

An example of a Fizz-Buzz question is the following:

Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print “Fizz” instead of the number and for the multiples of five print “Buzz”. For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print “FizzBuzz”.

Most good programmers should be able to write out on paper a program which does this in a under a couple of minutes.

Want to know something scary ? - the majority of comp sci graduates can’t. I’ve also seen self-proclaimed senior programmers take more than 10-15 minutes to write a solution.

I’m not saying these people can’t write good code, but to do so they’ll take a lot longer to ship it. And in a business environment that’s exactly what you don’t want.

This sort of question won’t identify great programmers, but it will identify the weak ones. And that’s definitely a step in the right direction.

Link: Using FizzBuzz to Find Developers who Grok Coding - Imran On Tech

<?php
for($i =1; $i < 101; $i++)
{
	if($i % 3 == 0) print "Fizz";
	if($i % 5 == 0) print "Buzz";
	if($i % 3 != 0 && $i % 5 != 0) print $i;	
	print "<br />";
}
?>

Related: Last year's April Fool jokes

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So here you are…enough is enough, come home already.

Can someone please tell Mr. Wordpress to go home to his wife and child??? All this commenting around the internet is getting a tad bit juvenile, don’t you think?

One of the new features it has is custom buttons. You can make search buttons for your sites. You can also add your site feed into this button.

Try it right now: Add WebMaster View to your Google Toolbar.

Follow these steps:

1. Install Google Toolbar.
2. Go to your site and right-click on your site's search box, select Generate Custom Search... and click Add.
3. Now the button is added to your toolbar. If your site has a favicon, it is used as the button's icon. Now go to the options (click the down arrow at the right hand side of the toolbar), click Buttons, select your toolbar, click edit and click the advanced editor.
4. Add <feed refresh-interval="1800">http://path/to/your/feed</feed> inside <button></button>.
5. Edit description. description appears as button tooltip in the Toolbar.
6. Select all code and copy to the clipboard.
7. Click Save to Google Toolbar...
8. Test your toolbar button.
9. Create an xml file in your site with the copied data.
10. Add a link to it in your homepage in this format: http://toolbar.google.com/buttons/add?url=http://url/of/your/button.xml
11. Click the link and make sure the button works properly.
12. Add your button to the Gallery.

Related:

• Getting Started with the Google Toolbar API
• Full Documentation

Now you can use webmaster tools to view a much larger sample of links to pages on your site that we found on the web. Unlike the link: operator, this data is much more comprehensive and can be classified, filtered, and downloaded.

WebMaster View has 423 external and 3493 internal backlinks.

It’s called WordPress
It’s my CMS
It’s the best thing to hit the web since porn
The code is open, the source is free
It’s available for people, just like you and me

Firefox 2 (Bon Echo) is released.

According to Firefox Extension Guru, you can not go directly from Firefox 1.5.0.7 to Firefox 2 via auto-update.

So, Download Firefox 2 Now!

Of the two rivals, Firefox remains the better application. Since IE users will have to adjust to a new layout and interface anyway, this might be a good time to give Firefox a try, then watch IE 8 play catch-up again in five years.