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How to Install PHP / MySQL and Apache on Windows - WAMP

March 29th, 2009 1 Comment

Just did a new video on downloading and installing WAMP
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=53965013
For some reason the “voice” audio codec I used only works on MySpace. The other video sites are silent.
WAMPserver is a hugely powerful and very easy-to-use package that allows you to run a complete server on your local computer, running the Apache webserver, MySQL [...]

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How To Scale Your Web Technology For Product Launch - Lessons Learned From The Butterfly Marketing 2.0 Launch

March 25th, 2009 4 Comments

When the order link for the Butterfly Marketing 2.0 launch was emailed to Mike Filsaime’s “Early Bird” list yesterday, the BFM servers crashed pretty spectacularly. Ustream chatrooms were packed with unhappy punters jabbing the refresh button like woodpeckers - fearful they might miss the opportunity to be one of the first 5000 to grab what was undeniably [...]

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