If your a mac user that occationally needs to use the dark-side of the force (Windows) checkout the freebe by Sun called VitualBox. The emulation is pretty good if your like me you really only start up Win-DOHs to test web development on IE and the occational network tool.
On a completely non-edutech note, I urge everyone to go checkout the game Zombies Vs Plants by PopCap games. It is addictive on the level of minesweeper or bejeweled.
VirtualBox and Zombies!
Anyone going to PSU Chicago?
If anyone is attending Powerschool University this week in Chicago look me up (the badge that reads "Nick Peronti"). We can have a cocktail lake-side.
Growing Pains
Realized after looking at a few logs that I was getting quite a few page not found errors after rolling out version 3 of this site. Why? Because I completely overlooked the fact that index.html, powerschool.html, and anyotherpage.html are no longer valid addresses on this new dynamic PHP driven site of mine.
My apologies to anyone who had those pages bookmarked and where getting a big page not found error.
For anyone curious as to how one gets around this problem the proper way when switching from a static to a dynamic site, the key is "rewrite rules" in your .htaccess file on your web server.
For instance, if you use to have a front page nicktech.org/index.html and you now have just nicktech.org the rule you want to include goes like so: RewriteRule ^index\.html$ http://nicktech.org [R=301,L]
My apologies to anyone who had those pages bookmarked and where getting a big page not found error.
For anyone curious as to how one gets around this problem the proper way when switching from a static to a dynamic site, the key is "rewrite rules" in your .htaccess file on your web server.
For instance, if you use to have a front page nicktech.org/index.html and you now have just nicktech.org the rule you want to include goes like so: RewriteRule ^index\.html$ http://nicktech.org [R=301,L]