Setting up Virtual Hosts in Apache on on macOS Sierra and OSX is straight forward after you have your local Web Development environment up and running – get your web development up and running first including Apache, PHP and MySQL on macOS following this AMP stack guide here if required. The process of setting up Virtual Hosts is done …
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Is Your Mac Good Enough to run the El Capitan?
Apple will release their new operating system named OS X 10.11 El Capitan between September-November 2015. The name El Capitan is another landmark name based on famous California landmarks. At this stage of the game the new OSX will run on pretty much the same machines as both its predecessors OSX 10.10Yosemite and OSX 10.9 Mavericks. You’ll …
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How to Install GruntJS on OSX 10.10 Yosemite
To install Grunt.js on OSX 10.10 Yosemite you first need to have already installed node.js and npm, which can be done easily with a point and click install. Grunt has to be installed globally and then locally to separate projects, the global install is the grunt-cli which has to be installed as a root/admin user and …
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Installing Homebrew on OS X Yosemite 10.10, Package Manager for Unix Apps
The easiest way to install various Unix tools and open source software onto Mac OS X is via a package manager, unfortunately OS X doesn’t come with one, but fortunately there are some good folks that care. They come in the form of Homebrew. Homebrew isn’t the only option, also available is MacPorts and Fink …
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Get Apache, MySQL, PHP and phpMyAdmin working on OSX 10.10 Yosemite
Get your Local Web Development Environment Up & Running on OSX 10.10 Yosemite With Apples’ new OSX 10.10 Yosemite out of the bag, getting the AMP stack up and running on the new OSX may cause a few bumps on the upgrade from OS X Mavericks 10.9. This tutorial will go through the process on getting Apache, MySQL, PHP (or otherwise known as …
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Overview of how JQuery selects HTML elements on the page
Installing jQuery Library For jQuery code to work you need to install the jQuery library in the head of your web page document, WordPress and other CMS’es already come with it pre-installed so make sure not to double up. Get the latest jQuery here. There are 2 versions, the v2 version has no support for …
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Connecting SSH with no Passwords from Local to Live Domain
This guide is about setting up a SSH connection without passwords from a local development environment to a live domain site, the requirements are that you have SSH access to the live domain. Setting up SSH folder on a Remote Domain SSH into the domain as the domain owner. By default some hosting providers do not set …
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Using ScrollReveal.js in a WordPress Genesis Theme
ScrollReveal.js is a javascript resource for animating objects as they appear in the viewport, here's how to get it going in a Genesis theme for WordPress. Above are four colored balls set to animate with scrollreval each time they enter into the viewport. You can apply the affects to small page elements or larger containers, for example ...
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