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I’ve just upgraded my wordpress install, and am very impressed. Really slick! ..and best of all it works with an iPhone app from which this post (of no use to anyone) has come

Sheesh it’s warm out!

To get a bit more speed out of your sluggish windows development machine (I use wampserver), add the following code to your php.ini.

; APC accellerator
extension=php_apc.dll
[APC]
apc.enabled = 1
apc.cache_by_default = 1
apc.enable_cli = 0
apc.shm_segments = 1
apc.shm_size = 64
apc.max_file_size = 1M
apc.stat=1

Also download the APC dll from here…

http://pecl4win.php.net/ext.php/php_apc.dll

and place it in your php ‘ext’ dir. Mine is here…
D:\wamp\bin\php\php5.2.6\ext

Restart Apache and you should be a bit zippier.

I’m still using windows for my primary development environment, although the bulk of the software I use is open source and/or free. I thought I’d share/store a rundown of some of the apps I install on a fresh windows build.

• Google Chrome (Quite a surprise winner this!)
• Comodo Firewall
• AVG antivirus
• Keepass
• 7zip
• Notepad++
• Eclipse PDT and Subclipse
• Firefox and Firebug
• Putty
• Open Office
• PDFCreator
• K-Lite Codec Pack and Media Player Classic
• iTunes and Quicktime
• Picasa

I’m very happy with this set of free apps, and can confidently recommend you try any of them.

 

If you’ve ever mildly pondered at the thought of your laptop being stolen or simply wandering off for a short time while left unattended, then this rather clever application may help put your mind at ease. If your laptop does disappear, you can track it’s location as soon as it connects to the internet. The best part is that only you can access this location info.. no third party is given this knowledge at all.

If you’re a Mac owner, you can even have the built in webcam send you shots of the laptop’s pilferer!

Very cool!
http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/

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