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Scott Hanselman presents the following article on getting a machine up to speed for Web Development.

There’s a new site at http://www.microsoft.com/web and a new (beta) of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (blog announcement). It’s basically a super bootstrapper that keeps track of where to get stuff and organizes them as profiles.

If I select “Your Choice” I get a complete list from a catalog of things that can be downloaded. I can auto-select options from a dropdown like “PHP Developer” or “Classic ASP Developer.” Cool that those options are there as well as ASP.NET Developer. There’s a manifest that it downloads to get the latest versions of each of these.

On the Web Server tab, it’ll pick the right IIS modules you’d need to get a site up, but it also shows as options some of the more interesting (and not well publicized) modules like ARR and BitRate Throttling that have been released since IIS7 came out.

If you’re running a Web Development shop, it’s certainly a quick way to get everything you’d need installed, including the free version of Visual Studio Web Express.

Check it out, and if you have any trouble or find anything interesting, you can report it directly to the team at the Web Platform Installer Forum. If you like it or hate it, let them now. It’d be interesting to see how extensible it can be and if they choose to extend it other developer products.

If you run Wordpress and ever receive a message such as “Allowed memory size of xxxxxx bytes exhausted” then you’re not alone. Resolving the error isn’t a big deal though. As of v2.5 the WP_MEMORY_LIMIT option allows you to specify the maximum amount of memory that can be consumed by PHP.

This wasn’t in my config already, but simply adding it fixed the issue.

This setting increases PHP Memory only for WordPress, not other applications.

Please note, this setting may not work if your host does not allow for increasing the PHP memory limit–in that event, contact your host to increase the PHP memory limit. Also, note that many hosts set the PHP limit at 8MB.

Increase PHP Memory to 64MB
define(’WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘64M’);
Increase PHP Memory to 96MB
define(’WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘96M’);

Clone Detective is a Visual Studio integration that allows you to analyze C# projects for source code that is duplicated somewhere else. Having duplicates can easily lead to inconsistencies and often is an indicator for poorly factored code.

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