Category Archives: Ubuntu

Installing Node.js and NPM on Ubuntu 10.10

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Chad Lung

In a previous article I laid out the steps to install NodeJS and NPM on Ubuntu 10.04. Today I’m going to slightly update and hopefully simplify those steps and bring the version of Ubuntu up to 10.10. This will be … Continue reading →

Posted in Node.js, Open Source, Ubuntu | 23 Comments

Install Lighttpd, PHP and MySQL on Ubuntu 10.10

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Chad Lung

Sometimes you don’t want Apache for your web server whatever your reasons might be. There are other options like Nginx and Lighttpd, today I’ll setup Lighttpd along with PHP (via FastCGI) and MySQL.

Posted in Open Source, PHP, Ubuntu | 7 Comments

Getting started with App Engine development on Ubuntu 10.10 with Python 2.5

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Chad Lung

Newer versions of Ubuntu don’t come with Python 2.5 anymore however Google App Engine still requires (as of the date of this article) that you continue to use Python 2.5 for App Engine development. Some people have been using Python … Continue reading →

Posted in App Engine, Python, Ubuntu | 2 Comments

Using Twitter's OAuth with PHP for your own Twitter based application

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Chad Lung

I’ve been reading some tutorials, articles, comments, etc. and one common theme seems to be that people are having trouble (see the comments in the linked article) getting OAuth working with Twitter and PHP. Recently I began work on a … Continue reading →

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Manually installing LAMP (Apache 2, MySQL, PHP 5) and phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 10.10

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Chad Lung

In a previous article I showed you how to create a LAMP server using Tasksel. I’m more of a hands on developer so today I will show you how to create a LAMP server on Ubuntu manually. There are a … Continue reading →

Posted in Open Source, PHP, Ubuntu | 4 Comments

Building a LAMP (Apache, PHP, MySQL) server on Ubuntu 10.10 with Tasksel

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Chad Lung

Tasksel is a Debian/Ubuntu tool that installs multiple related packages as a co-ordinated task onto your system. Tasksel makes it easy to install packages especially if you want to get a LAMP server up and running quickly.

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Install Ruby 1.9.2 (from source) and Rails 3.0.1 on Ubuntu 10.10

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Chad Lung

Although I believe using RVM is a better way to install and manage Ruby on Ubuntu (see my article on how to do that), you can however just install Ruby from source code. Today I’ll go over the steps to … Continue reading →

Posted in Open Source, Rails, Ruby, Ubuntu | 5 Comments

Install PHP 5, Apache 2 and MongoDB on Ubuntu 10.10 and test it out

Posted on October 27, 2010 by Chad Lung

With Ubuntu 10.10 recently launched (at the time of this article) many developers are upgrading to the latest and greatest Ubuntu to run their LAMP servers. Today I’m going create a LAMP server but without the traditional MySQL server and … Continue reading →

Posted in MongoDB, Open Source, PHP, Ubuntu | 9 Comments

Getting Flash Builder 4 (Flex) talking to Ruby, Passenger, Apache 2 with Sinatra on Ubuntu 10.10

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Chad Lung

I’m going to build a very simple project that will allow a Flash Builder 4 project to talk to Sinatra. In the end you will have some simple starter code to call a Sinatra service, pass in a parameter as … Continue reading →

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Installing Ruby on Ubuntu 10.10 with RVM

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Chad Lung

RVM has quickly become one of the main ways to install Ruby. Even though the RVM documentation is very solid I’m going to walk through installing RVM and Ruby on a clean install of Ubuntu 10.10 (Desktop). Obviously if you … Continue reading →

Posted in Open Source, Ruby, Ubuntu | 10 Comments