If you’ve been doing development very long, chances are you have had at least one “OH CRAP” or maybe even it’s big brother “OH S…” moments when you realized that you’d just deleted something you can’t get back, overwrote some

I realize it’s been just over a month since the last post in this series and for that I offer my apologies.  Several things, both work-related and personal have kept me very busy over the last month–hence the couple of short posts

This entry in my series detailing how I have my development environment set up will deal with databases.  This is going to be a somewhat shorter post than the others simply because there isn’t as much customization to be done in this area

This installment in my series detailing how my local web development environment is set up is going to deal with my application server setup. After visiting with several folks at the cf.Objective() conference this year, I was convinced that I needed to configure

As web developers, one of the most under-appreciated pieces of software in our arsenal is the web server software that answers the calls from the masses of visitors that want nothing more than to pour over every word and image that we put on

As I mentioned in my last post, after attending the cf.Objective() conference earlier this year, I decided that I needed to completely tear down and rebuild my local development environment. My old setup worked well enough, but there were some gotchas in the

A couple weeks ago I posted about moving our SVN repositories to a hosted solution at CVSDude.com. I primarily wanted to do that so that I wouldn't have to be responsible for administering the SVN server (performing backups, configuring hook scripts etc).  I've