Developer Notebook : Rick Rickards

24 Jul

I’m currently building AJAX/PHP/MySQL skills. This is my developer’s notebook.

Research and experiments led to my conclusion that rather than build my own JavaScript library/framework, I should build upon open-source, community based libraries.

These libraries are maintained and supported by teams of engineers and are tested by the community on various cross-browser/platform combinations. I simply couldn’t build and maintain anything as robust.

My platform consists of:

Installation Notes 5 Apr

The heavy lifting of the installation was handled by XAMPP.
The JavaScript libraries:

RICO

Behaviour

Prototype

Scriptaculous

Apache As A Service 4 Apr

I configured Apache as a Windows service so I don’t need to remember to start it manually. Simply run the batch script:

c:\xampp\apache\apache_installservice.bat

MySQL As A Service 4 Apr

I also configured MySQL as a Windows service. The script:

c:\xampp\mysql\mysql_installservice.bat

List

Apache 2.0
PHP 5
MySQL
prototype.js
behaviour.js
rico.js
scriptaculous.js