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Following up on the note about redundant Apache clusters, Joyeur has a long list of load balancers that is also worth a look. One other tool that is not on that list is Crossroads. Are there any other load balancing tools that are missing from that list? Please let us know!
Posted at 3:16 PM PST with these tags: web, deployment, tools
RadRails is an integrated development environment (IDE) for Ruby on Rails, with the initial RadRails 0.1 release emerging only a few days ago. A customized version of the Java-based Eclipse IDE, RadRails appears to a promising cross-platform tool for managing the development of Rails web applications. The release of version 0.2 is imminent and will hopefully be accompanied by more extensive documentation.
Dave Shea over at mezzoblue provides a great tutorial on how to keep a synchronized backup of remote web server documents on a local machine. Rsync can be a difficult tool to figure out, so this detailed how-to guide makes it much easier to get started. The post comments also contain a great deal of useful information.
The Locomotive project provides a Mac OS X package for easy installation of Ruby on Rails, lighttpd, FastCGI, and other supporting libraries and database drivers. The roadmap indicates that while the current release is mainly intended for use with SQLite, future versions will include better support for PostgreSQL and MySQL.
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Tabasoft has released BBiferno, a plug-in for the popular BBEdit text editor that facilitates the process of editing Biferno source code files. Biferno is a cross-platform scripting language much like PHP.
Posted at 5:06 PM PDT with these tags: mac, web
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For those who want to learn more about WebObjects, the ongoing series on MacDevCenter by Josh Paul is a good place to start. The introduction has since been followed by a second article entitled Using WebObjects “Direct to Web” Technology. The latest installment, More Practical Tips and Tricks, was just posted today.
Posted at 7:48 PM PST with these tags: mac, web
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A submission over at Mac OS X Hints has some interesting information about Apache config files on Mac OS X Server 10.3. It seems that each virtual host gets its own include file, much like Tenon’s iTools has been doing for some time now. The difference is, if you want to make a change specific to a virtual host that’s not covered by the Server Admin tool (such as turning on the PHP register_globals setting for certain applications that require it), you will lose the ability to manage any virtual domain information via the Server Admin tool. It seems Panther Server’s introduction hasn’t changed the status quo much: you either have to stick with the limitations inherent in Apple’s GUI, or bite the bullet and make your changes to text files using the Terminal.
Flash animations, QuickTime movies, and Java applets have been seamlessly integrated alongside web content for many years. But the next Windows version of MS Internet Explorer, due in 2004, breaks that seamlessness by prompting the user before downloading each active content element (i.e., anything placed using object, embed, and applet tags). Thankfully, Ronald Northrip has written a $15 shareware application called IEWebFix that will scan and modify HTML, XHTML, XML, ASP, JSP, PHP, and CFM files to get around IE’s new behavior. For those curious about the details, Apple’s Developer Connection has more information about preparing sites for these impending changes.
Posted at 3:30 AM PST with these tags: web, tools
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Joel Spolsky writes about multilingual software development and how many programmers are unfortunately not paying enough attention to Unicode. While this has nothing to do with Macs in particular, it raises an important question: which development environment is best suited for multilingual web applications?
So you have a Mac, and you want to turn it into a web server. Thankfully, Mac OS X comes with Apache, PHP, MySQL, and other useful server tools pre-installed. But for most Mac users, the UNIX underpinnings of OS X are alien, intimidating, and far from user-friendly. While Apple provides a basic graphical user interface (GUI) for starting and stopping Apache and FTP services, more advanced configuration requires a trip to the command line.
Posted at 1:34 AM PDT with these tags: mac, web, apache, dns
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