Alex Hardy

MAMP is a local development server for Mac OS X. It installs very easily (normally installing Apache, PHP and MySQL is a bit of a headache, to put it mildly). You can manage your database with a built-in version of phpMyAdmin, and if you’ve decided you don’t need it any more you can just trash it.

I’ve had some real fun and games in the past getting a local development environment up and running. I’ve knackered an OS install before :*) So this will be really handy…

So some bloke said once…

I guess this an experiment, on a couple of levels. I’m a web developer by day, and like everyone else who fancies themselves creative, I’ve been prone to the odd Grand Vision while having a pint.

I’ve not spent all my time sat around in my pants procrastinating, nosir. I’ve done quite a few projects this last couple of years. I look around though, and find that the people I admire professionally are the likes of Jeffrey Zeldman, Ryan Carson and Shaun Inman.

So I think to myself, can I use the ideas and skills that I have, and do something of my own? Create some nifty little app and earn fame, adulation and who knows, maybe even some actual money?

I reckon it’ll take about six months to put together something worthwhile, so *counts fingers*, that’d be next Spring. How does April 1^st sound?

Apt?

No doubt I’ll get round to the usual blogging business of ranting about this and that - I may even post some useful things too. Whether my dribblings are worth reading, I leave to you to decide.