Archive for January, 2008

How to install Catalyst on XAMPP

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

I’ve been struggling for a while to get one of my favorite web frameworks, Perl’s Catalyst on to one of my favorite LAMP servers,  XAMPP with little success. With the help of Ishigaki Kenichi over at http://ppm.tcool.org/ I’ve figured out a way get everything running. Here’s how you do it.

  1. Install XAMPP and the Perl Add-On.
  2. Install Perl 5.8.8.820
  3. Run PPM and add the tcool repository (http://ppm.tcool.org/archives/) and disable all other repositories.
  4. Remove File-Spec
  5. Run ppm-shell and install Catalyst-Runtime and Catalyst-Devel using the –force option
  6. Disable the tcool repository and reenable the ActiveState repository.
  7. remove Errno using the –force
  8. Reinstall the latest version of Errno (1.10)

I hope this saves someone some time and frustration in the future!

2007 Christmas Photos

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Christmas photos from the various places we spent the holidays in 2007 are up:

Just in case you missed it, here’s Sophia with Santa last year:

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