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Waiting iPad apps: If you run into a problem with "waiting" iPad apps during the iPad app installation or update process, my "waiting iPhone apps solutions" article should be helpful. Because all these Apple devices use the same iOS operating system, and because we've found four possible solutions to the "waiting iPhone/iPod apps" problem, these waiting app tips should work just as well for waiting iPad apps (also referred to as "stuck" iPad apps).

Problem

I was just trying to install PHP from source code on a CentOS Linux box, specifically trying to configure PHP with GD support with a configure command like this:

./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs \
            --with-mysql \
            --with-gd

Unfortunately this configure command fails, ending with the following two lines of error output:

Over the weekend I was trying to configure Apache as a reverse-proxy server (specifically as a reverse-proxy server working in conjunction with OpenSSO), and I couldn't get it to work at all. It's been a while since I last installed Apache, and I assumed it was configured with the modproxy module by default, but it turns out that it's not: You have to configure Apache with the mod_proxy module at installation time in order for things like the ProxyPass configuration to work.

Update: If you're interested in using PHP and MySQL on Mac OS X, these days I recommend skipping this article and using MAMP, which I describe in my Mac OS X MAMP tutorial.

Life never ceases to amaze me. In this case, one day I write a rant about a Pigpen Developer who is anti-YAGNI, and then later in the week this exchange takes place.

Thursday morning, a customer tells me "Al, we're not going to need the XYZ functionality after all."

"No problem", I say, "I'll delete it."

"That would be great", they say, and I go off and delete all the code related to XYZ.