Beginners Guide To XAMPP.

XAMPP is made by Apache Friends (http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html). It allows you to setup your http server with ease. If you have tried setting up Apache on your desktop PC it can be very hard to configure especially for Windows machines, XAMPP allows you do basic setup all you need in one setup file.

It will offer to install Apache, PHP, MySQL and Perl instead of installing them separately.

So I’m going to talk you through the installation to check your doing it all right so we are going to download XAMPP i downloaded XAMPP Windows 1.5.4a you can download it here (http://www.apachefriends.org/download.php?xampp-win32-1.5.4a-installer.exe).

So i went throught the installation before hand this is my results

Choose language

Install destination (C:\program files)

Waiting for install…

Finish

Popup “install XAMPP Servers (Apache, MySQL or Filezilla FTP) as service?” Yes

Popup “install Apache 2 as service?” Yes

Popup “Apache 2 service was installed successfully! (ports: 80 +443)” Ok

Popup “Install MySQL as service?” Yes

Popup “MySQL service was installed successfully! (port: 3306)” Ok

Popup “Install Filezilla FTP service?” Yes

How Our Computing Lives Are Changing!

As we can see from the major search engine Google things like MS Office and Open Office, may be a think of the past if you look at docs.google.com you will see that you can now create documents and spreadsheets online.

The document creator you might be able to see that it works like a lot of word processors, right click your get the usual options like copy and paste you have tool bars with fonts on them.

So what plus sides are their from Google Docs & Spreadsheets?

Well think about it imagine doing some of your work as home then no need to carry and flash drives or laptops you can just log on to Google and get your documents your created earlier!

So maybe this could be the way to the future?

No more laptops, no more flash drives just Google.