March 2009 Archive

Installing Apache, PHP and CURL on Windows

Posted March 23, 2009 by Gabriel Hurley

I got tired of having to upload every little change to the code of my web designs to the server to see if they even work at all, so I decided I'd run a local web server with PHP on my computer. If they ran Linux, this would be extremely simple. Unfortunately, I run Windows XP on both my ...

Asterisk PBX

Posted March 11, 2009 by Gabriel Hurley

Useful tricks in Asterisk and some troubleshooting suggestions for the amazingly customizable (and frustrating) PBX system.

Exceeding your limitations and why am I up so late?

Posted March 8, 2009 by Gabriel Hurley

Point number one:

strongly believe in the theory that you should push yourself until you reach the technical limitations imposed by the gear you own. If you haven't mastered your mic placement you shouldn't be buying better mics. If you haven't mastered your apertures and f-stops you shoudn't be buying better cameras. And if you can ...