Developer Application Management

Microsoft, Facebook and Google all have different URLs to manage applications.

Facebook is the easiest to remember: https://developers.facebook.com/ (Makes sense). Plus, if you're like me, I usually miss the "s" on developers, yet Facebook is smart enough to redirect me.

Microsoft and Google are both difficult to find. It's a good few minutes each time. 

Microsoft: https://account.live.com/developers/applications/

Google: https://code.google.com/apis/console/

Google also supports the "developers" subdomain, but it presents with too much information. You'd need to know you're looking for the API console.

This will certainly save me a few minutes next time I need to open up a dev server that has a different URL yet still needs the same API access.

jQuery Isotopes

Coworker pointed this out today, jQuery Isotopes. Looks interesting - a bit of eye candy. I'm not sure if I would put this on a website (using their homepage example), but it has a bit of promise for some other purposes. Something I'll keep in mind for future layouts.

Ubuntu Linux Items

Turns out installing items on Ubuntu is extremely easy. The following items turned out to be useful tips (if not also the "proper" way to install additional items).

For PHP, to install additional modules, it's also a "sudo apt-get install php" command. Press the tab key "tab out, as it were, and it will show you the additional items that can be installed.

For Apache, to enable additional modules, instead of modifying the httpd.conf file, the files are separated out into separate directories. Use the "a2enmod" (presumably it's the 'Apache2 enable module' command.

I'm working on getting Ubuntu running Symfony and connecting to the Azure SQL Server database - this is turning out to be quite the challenge. After that nut is cracked, or when I crack and install MySQL instead (using apt-get), I'll post the results here to save the next person some work.