Tag: install
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Lucid Ubuntu and GDAL Latest
I’m writing some software that relies on a feature of GDAL (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library) in a more recent version than the one Ubuntu Lucid currently has in their repository. As I write the software on my desktop, I found out pretty quickly that I was using an old version of one of the commands…
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Setting Up Netbeans and Ruby
I’ve been considering some development with Ruby and Rails. As I’ve used the Netbeans IDE before and liked it, I downloaded the Ruby version to give it a try. The main benefit here is that you can do a lot of things without the console. I can add models, scaffolds, migrate databases, and such with…
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Getting .NET COM Interop DLLs Working
I recently finished working on a macro program where the software’s interface is COM. Everything worked great until I wanted to transfer the macro over to a test client computer. The program I was writing the macro for requires some registry entries, so I assumed that was all I needed to do. After about 2…
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Site Revamp Details
Here is a screen shot of the old site. It served me well for the two years or so that I had it running on blogger.com. The great thing about blogging is that I can save bits of important information in one place that I can later come back and utilize. The secondary benefit is…
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Getting a Symfony development enviroment running on windows
Nothing is ever easy… Anyways, to get a computer ready to start developing with the Symfony PHP framework you have a few options. You can take the long, long route and install apache, php, and a database server. With that you have to do a good deal of configuration to get everything working together. You…