Webonaut

Social Networks are in their phase 1, where all the people are on the same site but that's not how the future will be. Many friends I have in the alternative community for instance do not feel at home on Facebook or myspace... indeed the bland middle-classness of Facebook turns me off. Humans are tribal animals everywhere but the web, and I believe this is purely because the idea of social networking online is still in it's infancy. The drive for change will come from several directions: Cool kids will soon want something more exclusive than Facebook or myspace, or wherever the adults and other uncool people hang out. Possibly even a closed, invite only type space? Similarly, those from other communities will forge their own dedicated sites - religious groups, alternative living groups, basically all those who separate themselves in the real world. They don't want to throw sheep, or poke - they want to share verse, or crochet patterns, or tyre recommendations - you get th...

GUIDE TO COMPILING A USEFUL DEVELOPMENT VERSION PHP FOR LEOPARD - INCLUDING GD GRAPHICS AND ZIP SUPPORT After some substantial frustration, I have compiled (mainly for myself) a guide to improving on the default PHP installation that comes with Leopard. If you've landed here from Google you've no doubt already found that the standard Leopard PHP is basic, lacking some (IMHO) essential features such as GD for generating graphics and Zip support. You'll have also cursed that there is no readily available PHP package to update with, so re-compiling yourself is the only way. // NOTE: Dec 09 - This ONLY WORKS FOR LEOPARD, NOT SNOW LEOPARD. SEE MORE RECENT POST FOR HOW I SOLVED THIS ON MY NEW MACBOOK PRO This propect needn't be too daunting though - with this handy guide! # Note: All commands below are meant to be run in Terminal BEFORE YOU START # You'll need some (free) software: - TextWrangler - XCode OSX Developer Tools (to give you a working C compiler - alternativ...