Ajai Khattri wrote: >> Do any of you have recommendations on configuration settings to use? > > Most of these packages come with pretty sensible config settings so I > probably would *not* mess with them without knowing the consequences.
Duly noted. >> Which packages/extensions/modules should be installed/enabled? > > That kind of depends on what software you're writing dont you think? Ah, right--thinking. Sometimes I forget to do that. Yes, that would be a sensible thing to consider. :-) >Some > frameworks will need additional extensions and tweaks to Apache so there > is no simple fits-all rule. The other thing to consider is that any > changes you make should be easy to maintain and put back after a software > update. (In the case of Apache I tend to leave the main config alone since > any changes will likely be overwritten when the software is updated). IIRC > Ubuntu has something like a sites-enabled/sites-available folder where you > can put vhost files (one per vhost is good practice). I usually create a > file called ALL that contains any global config tweaks. > >> Should I go ahead and turn off error reporting and enable it via my >> scripts, or should I leave it on all the time? If I should leave it on, >> at what level should I set it? E_ALL? > > If you're using a framework it might already do all that for you and maybe > provide its own config file for you to tweak that in. I'll look into all that, thanks. > Firebug is good on the browser side (also look at the Web Developer > Toolbar and the YSlow extension for Firebug). On the server side look at > FirePHP and Xdebug extensions for PHP. > Firebug, YSlow, and the Web Developer Toolbar have been my best friends for front-end work for quite some time. I've seen the FirePHP & Xdebug extensions but didn't really understand how to use them, so I just ignored them. Now that you've mentioned them I'll go back and give them a closer look. > All developers should be using version control. Subversion is very popular > but Git is also becoming so these days. Understood. Bev _______________________________________________ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
