Archive for June, 2006

Installing MySQL Query Browser on Fedora Core 5

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

I was visiting my parents back in Vermont last week, but right before I left I decided I wanted to install MySQL’s Query browser. Running mysql from the command line works, but sometimes it is nice to have a GIU, especially since the program has help docs for syntax, multiple tabs open with queries and […]

Google Map Gotchas

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

I have been doing some work with Google Maps and found an informative website that helped solve some problems. My first problem was that the info window displayed above my marker was too big, with a lot of extra space at the bottom. It turns out, the info box is created by Google’s javascript based […]

Ask Maps API

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

I am working on a new application and I will make use of a mapping API from one of the search engines. In researching the different maps and their respective API’s, I was disappointed to find out that ask.com doesn’t have an API for their maps. Ask seems to have the best satellite data for […]

Setting up Fedora Core 5 for Zend Framework

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

I installed Apache and MySQL through yum without a hitch and decided I needed to compile my own version of PHP 5. I ran into some problems compiling PHP5, but after resolving those, I had a working LAMP platform. The way ZF is currently set up, it really only works from the root directory of […]