John Gruber has a great article about Using .htaccess Redirection to Standardize Web Server Addresses. .htaccess files are actually quite easy to work with, and if you have a website, you should be able to implement many of these techniques to provide better URI’s to your users.
If you are not using Flex Builder for your projects and are compiling your Flex applications from the command-line, you might be interested in this relatively new project on Adobe Labs. The Flex Module for Apache and IIS module provides web-tier compilation of MXML and ActionScript files on Apache and IIS web servers. The module lets you compile, test and deploy an application by requesting the main application file from a web browser. If you have ever worked with ColdFusion or JSP, this is a similar technique that compiles and presents your work upon requesting it from the server.
Corunet presents The definitive heatmap where by using a combination of Apache, Ruby and JavaScript, you can create your own heatmaps to track where users are clicking on your sites. So this combination of scripts essentially give you the same results as CrazyEgg, however, by rolling your own solution you’ll probably learn something along the way!
Colleague Mike Haugland has posted his experiences compiling Apache 2.2.3, PHP 5.1.5 and MySQLi on Intel Mac. I too experienced similar struggles – so you may find this post helpfule!
If you’re running an Apache web server, you should most definately give this short how-to a try. Security Testing your Apache Configuration with Nikto is super simple to follow and you might find the results surprising (like I did).
James Higgs has put together a really nice series of articles that will help you get up and running with the Subversion open source version control system.
Via Ajaxian, XML.com has a good article titled Fixing AJAX: XmlHttpRequest Considered Harmful. The article states that the XMLHttpRequest object enables alot of the really cool stuff in today’s web applications, but asserts that the really cool stuff that can be done but is never talked about is using AJAX to consume third-party web services like those from Google, Yahoo and Flickr.
XMLHttpRequest has a basic security restriction prevents you from making XMLHttpRequests to any server except the server where your web page came from. To access third party web services, XMLHttpRequest needs to be fixed and those fixes are outlined as:
If you’re new to Apache web server administration, you should check out this article on .htaccess tricks and tips.
.HTACCESS files useful tips and tricks is a nice tutorial that is, well, full of tips and tricks!
Daring Fireball’s John Gruber has created a great Apache Configuration Language Module for BBEdit. It provides syntax coloring for comments and Apache server directive keywords. The keywords list is a superset of the directives for Apache versions 1.3 and 2.0.
