A productive couple of days, had I

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:07:16 -0500

Well, I have had a couple of very productive days at home. There has been A LOT that I have been wanting to do. Well finally, I just sat down and did a lot of it. In the last two days I have accomplished setting up my ultimate development environment.

Since Noon yesterday I have:

Installed Apache 2.2 (A lot easier than I thought it would be)
Configured Apache to work with ColdFusion 8 Dev and PHP5
Set up a multi-site Drupal installation so that all of my Drupal sites run off of the same code base
Installed and configured SVN Server
Configured Apache to work with SVN
Set up and loaded repositories for all of my projects
Configured Eclipse with Subclipse to access my repositories
Set up Virtual Host s in Apache so that each of my development sites can have a local domain

I have to say, most of these things were MUCH easier than I though they would be. All save for Subversion working with Apcahe. That was not easy, and I am still not sure I have it right. It seems to be working. But I did have a few issues with importing my files into the repos and with Subclipse freezing up. I'm not sure, but I think I may also have had an issue with a corrupt repo. Now all seems to be well.

Now I have the really hard part. I have to be consistent with my development processes and make sure that I am properly using all of my tools. I have also recently installed and configured Apache Ant with Eclipse. I have started watching Jim Priest's presentation on UGTV but I have, so far, only created very simle scripts. I still have a lot to learn about Ant, but it looks like it will help me to maintain good practices.

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A productive couple of days, had I