I’m sure you’ve all heard of Talk Like A Pirate Day, and here’s my rather geeky idea for another day. It’s Talk Like Apache Day!
Basically, you talk like an HTTP server (not specifically Apache, but “Apache” was similar to “A pirate”…). If you need help, here are some responses you can give people to confuse them.
Other ideas could be borne from this, such as Talk Like an MTA Day, or Talk Like SSH Day. I expect the later would have to be encrypted though…
Just imagine the conversation anyway:
You: Hi James, how are you?
Me: 200 OK
You: What?
Me: 304 Not Modified
You: I don’t understand…
Me: 304 Not Modified
You: You’re such an idiot…
Me: 400 Bad Request
OK, so far all that I’ve managed to do is install it and have a dabble with the config pages and go “oooh that looks pretty”, so this isn’t a hardcore review or anything.
Zend have unveiled their newest product, Zend Server… which is essentially Zend’s own W/M/LAMP stack, but with Zend Framework and other components Zend have written, including the very handy Zend Debugger. What does that mean? Well to me, that means there’s quite an easy choice for my web development at home – I just installed it in 10 minutes and now have a fully working WAMP stack I can develop on before pushing to my Linode test server. It was 100 times easier than any other WAMP stack I’ve worked with including XAMPP and the other ones I’ve tried. It has a very shiny web GUI as well (pictured), that – as I mentioned before – I went “oooh” at lots. I personally think Zend Server has the potential to be really frickin’ awesome if I get to know it better. From the Public Beta Invitation e-mail, Zend states it includes:
- Fully supported and certified distribution of PHP 5.2
- Fully supported Zend Framework 1.7 release
- Integrated native installers (RPM/DEB/MSI)
- Web-based administration Interface
- Comprehensive out-of-the-box database connectivity
- Powerful PHP monitoring capabilities to identify problems and help fix them quickly
- URL-based output caching required by today’s modern web applications
- Zend Optimizer+ – byte code cache to boost application performance
- New “Guard Loader” to enable processing of Zend Guard encoded files
Not bad – and there’s a community edition too, which means if you’re a sole developer like me it’s affordable.
<rant>Unfortunately, they don’t do a community edition of Zend Studio for Eclipse… and although PDT is good, I feel like its the hacky “well Zend Studio uses PDT at it’s core” alternative – without the cool enhancements that ZS has… oh well!</rant>
I followed some guide on the interwebs this evening to set up a password-less SSH connection to my server. I followed all the steps correctly, but kept getting “Server refused our key” in PuTTY.
Thankfully, after a quick Google, this guide helped me out and got it working.
The solution is that Windows sucks, and you should always generate your keys in Linux.
I’ve managed to sell the server cabinet now, but I’ve still got a few things to sell. If you might know who would like a server for their birthday… please send them this way:
Please buy them, we have a wedding to fund, and they don’t come cheap!
Well, I missed the boat for updating the nameservers for asgrim.com, so until 1and1.co.uk sort out my nameservers, asgrim.com will point to a random UK2.net holding page.
So for now, my nice “memorable” home page will be:
http://s250208861.websitehome.co.uk/asgrim/
Woo… anyway, in about 5-8 days, asgrim.com should be alive again! Woop!
