Blog posts tagged with installation
PostgreSQL installation in Ubuntu 10.04
PostgreSQL is a powerful and reliable object-relational database system. It's a great alternative for MySQL. It is as easy to set up, performs better and offers far more features.
MySQL installation in Ubuntu 10.04
MySQL is one of the most popular relational database systems which is widely used with PHP applications. It's relatively easy to set up and use. Here's a quick guide of how to install and configure MySQL in the newest release of Ubuntu.
Setting up a PHP development environment with nginx on Ubuntu 10.04
Nginx is a lightweight http, proxy and load balancing server. It's a serious alternative for a widely used apache. Most important advantages of nginx on a production environments are speed and small amount of memory it uses. In a development environment I really like the simple and flexible configuration. Here's a guide how to quickly prepare PHP development environment with nginx on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx).
Frets on Fire - Guitar Hero in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
I just played Frets on Fire, an amazing game which managed to absorb me enough to write this blog post. It doesn't happen to often. Frets on Fire is a Guitar Hero clone for PC (runs on Linux, Mac and Windows).
Chromium - Google Chrome in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
Google Chrome doesn't support Linux based operating systems yet. However, it is made on Chromium which works on all major platforms. Chromium is an Open Source web browser with the same feature set as Google Chrome. Actually Google Chrome is based on Chromium. The only difference is the logo.
Viewing svn diff result in colors
svn diff allows us to see the changes made on the files in the subversion repository. However, its output is not always clear. We can improve our experience a bit by installing colordiff which wraps diff command and produces coloured output.
Chromium - Google Chrome in Ubuntu 9.04
Chromium is a project aiming to run Google Chrome web browser on Linux. Launchpad repositories deliver apt sources list for Ubuntu which enables us with an easy installation process like usual: add sources and authorization key, update package database and install the application.
