Apache, Web Development

Mamp Pro and Slow DNS lookups

I recently was trying to figure out a network latency issue when I came upon this other issue. It seems that Mamp Pro has an issue in how it writes to the /etc/hosts file causing this DNS latency issue.

The issue is that it creates a separate line for each of the hosts and the more you have the worse it gets. You can space delimit them and put them all on the same line but Mamp will overwrite them on the next Apache start… Ugh.

So the quick solution that worked for me was to tab-delimit the vhosts for the ::1 entry

There ya go… Big up to my buddy Adam Lutz with his insights into this issue.

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HTML, Web Standards

Apple, Adobe and HTML5

From where I stand, Flash has officially jumped the shark. Apple’s stance of not allowing Flash on the iPad finally moved the HTML5 standard ever closer to replacing Flash for delivering rich media. While the discussion has been that Apple and HTML5 have spelled doom for Flash, the need to code semantic, accessible and standards compliant websites is really what will bring an end to Flash as we know it.

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