Collin Condray’s Blog

I had this show running in the background waiting for the Oceanic commercial after Lost was over. In short, Lawyer Scrubs but with no laughs.

Verdict: Pass, find something better to do.

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!

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

• Little Rock
• Fayetteville
• Conway

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

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Mommy got some pictures made of Sophia in her Christmas best. See how beautiful she looks!

And now you know why you haven’t seen any posts in a while. I hope that you like the new site! I was using the Joomla CMS with the WordPress plugin to run my site. However,

• I never used more than a few of the Joomla features.
• The WordPress plugin hasn’t been updated in months.
• I’ve learned so much about WordPress lately and so many features have been added to it that it could handle all my needs.

There are a few details that still need to be ironed out. If you see something that doesn’t look right, please let me know. I’m also going to be added some new features and I might even blog a little bit more so stick around for those as well.

There’s a bunch of new pictures of Sophia’s latest adventures:

• Memorial Day with cousins
• Pumpkin Patch Visit
• Halloween Party

Sophia’s has been to the photographer for some new photos. Look closely for the rare bow in her hair.