geek stuff

So the iphone is the best phone I've ever had, without a doubt, but that isn't saying much since it's the first phone I've had with email support, however it has yet to hit the level of greatness in my opinion, and here's why.

Copy / paste
I'm sure the lack of copy/paste is somehow related to the touch ui, but seriously it's time you figured it out. My memory isn't THAT good.

Real Time GPS

During our hackathon @ ubercamp we decided to install solr search on ubercart.org. Here is how we got solr running as a service, with tomcat, drupal, and the Apachesolr module.

Install solr / tomcat

I decided to use tomcat in this case, mainly because I wanted to create an init script to start/stop the solr serivce, and to automatically bring it online when the server is rebooted.

Today I found myself wanting to access a database on my clients development server. I thought it would be nice to use phpmyadmin, but I didn't want to install it on the development server. After a little bit of poking around I found that you can easily connect to multiple servers with phpmyadmin. Since I had wamp on my laptop, I decided to give it a shot. So here's how its done.

Step one

Open up c:\wamp\phpmyadmin\config.inc.php in your favorite editor(I use komodo edit).

Step two

Somewhere around line 50, you will see the server configuration section