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I finally have it!

I have Google Wave. I got my invite on October 23, 2009, and at first, I had no idea of what to do with it. I signed up for an invite to Google Wave a while ago, and when I wasn’t let into the first wave (no pun intended) of users, I was upset, but I decided I didn’t really need it after all. How do you test a communications platform with no one to test it with? It completely defeats the purpose of testing if the only person you can talk to on Wave is yourself.

And then finally, I get my Wave invite a week ago. I was completely at a loss as to what I should do — I had gotten a Wave invite, one of the most sought after things in the modern world, and I knew I didn’t need Wave. I probably wouldn’t even need it much. (Getting bored? Keep reading. You might end up with one of my 20 invites.) Continue reading Riding on Google’s Wave »

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I got this question in an email today, and I thought it would be more fun to answer it on my blog instead of just telling the one person the answer.

I have a web design question. It’s a quick one, don’t worry. I am developing with XAMPP locally. I put the website files in a subdirectory off of the Apache document root. But what this means is that whenever I specify an absolute path on my webpages, like “/include/navbar.php”, it goes up to the localhost/ directory instead of the localhost/subdirectory/ directory. I’m thinking the solution would be to set up DNS, but this seems like something so simple. What do you do to get your absolute paths to work?

Unfortunately, as the title of this post suggests, it’s not possible. There’s no way to use absolute paths with a subdirectory without possibly breaking the code when you take it out of a testing environment and put it on a root directory. Of course, I too use subdirectories of my XAMPP root for website testing, so I had to figure out some workarounds. Continue reading Question: Access of root directory of a subdirectory »