If you’ve installed Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 already and you use the built in apache server “Web Sharing” you will need to follow these steps before your web server works again. If you’ve tried to visit a page on your local server, you will be greeted by this message: Forbidden (403) You don't have permission to access /~danielerrante/ezslide/ on this server. Leopard fails to copy the settings from apache in Tiger to apache2 in Leopard. Therefore, you will need to follow these simple steps to get your server up again.

I just installed Leopard. It’s awesome. Installing the actual operating system took about an hour and Time Machine is updating the computer as we speak. All the new features are amazing and remind me why I switched to mac in the first place Of course, installing a new operating system is always a royal pain for me. Leopard only had a few hiccups…

Recently diving into e-commerce, I needed to find the best service with the lowest transaction costs for my clients and for my own company. Instead of becoming overwhelmed with all of the choices, you should look into these great services from more the more popular companies out there. Paypal has a $10/month fee to use their basic service, where they would handle all transactions, including yearly billing. They also charge approximately 2% + $0.30 per transaction. This option is $20 less per month than the Paypal integrated service, but users would be directed off your website during their initial...

We programmers all get it. Staring at the computer screen hoping for the energetic icon at the bottom of the screen to start writing your application for you. What do you do to break out of the funk? 1. Get out of the [home] office. Take a break. Spend some time outside. You may find some new energy from the warm sun, if it’s out. 2. Drink some coffee, tea, water, Mountain Dew, motor oil…whatever gets you to wake up!! 3. If you have a laptop, go work somewhere else besides your normal place (outside, the coffee shop, library). Switch things up a little. 4. Go work out. If you haven’t...

We released our open source authorization system today. It helps you manage your users on your website, taking care of the following: - user registration (with optional e-mail verification) - user login - lost account retrieval - password changing - user session management - password protecting certain pages or sections of your website It is built using the CodeIgniter PHP framework so you will need that installed until we port it for general use. Check it out, there’s a fully working online demo and user guide with lots of documentation as well!

This is a jist of what Ed Dale teaches in the thirty day challenge. The process has enabled him to create multi-million dollar businesses online and now he is teaching people like you and me how to do it. After participating in his challenge, I learned that his principals not only apply to finding niche markets, but to business practices overall. After all, the people who benefited the most from the thirty day challenge were the ones who applied the thirty day challenge methods to their existing business. Instead of making $10 in thirty days, the existing businesses made thousands of dollars using...

Facebook is the new Microsoft Windows. Why? Before my time, Microsoft introduced Windows as a revolutionary new platform for developers make everyone’s lives easier. Apple came out with their aesthetic, remarkably easy interface that made (almost) everyone want a new Mac. It wasn’t long before these big companies like IBM, Xerox, Microsoft, HP and of course Apple knew what was coming down the train tracks. These revolutionary new personal computers were going to change everyone’s life. And they did. Bill Gates became the richest man in the world and Steve Jobs continues to lead...

We launched a great new web2.0 service the other day called ListRankr. ListRankr allows you to make lists about anything. For example, if you want to find some great Italian restaurants in your local area, you can go to ListRankr and view the list of local restaurants, in order of people’s preference. Users can vote restaurants up or down, mark their favorite (which counts as an extra vote), and read reviews about every restaurant in the list. If the list doesn’t exist, create it! Then invite your friends to review and rank your list. You can make a list for pretty much everything....

UnSpun is a cool new place to make lists. For example, make a list of political candidates and people can vote them up or down. The community decides the priority/importance/popularity of the items in the list. One of the most popular lists right now is your “Favorite Alcoholic Beverage.” You can vote up or down certain drinks, such as Margaritas, Merlot, Gin and Tonic, Vodka, etc.

Need a website soon and don’t want to explore XHTML and CSS? Use this cool new online webpage designer I found the other day. Learning how to create website pages is a cinch with the help of WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors like Dreamweaver, only this webpage designer is web-based (cross-platform) and won’t cost you a penny! Plus, they were named one of the top 50 websites in 2007 by Time magazine. If you go to www.weebly.com and sign up with your username and email you can start building your website in seconds. It uses a pretty AJAX interface, so that means you need...